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Tony Brook on his recent collaboration with BBC Creative

Design News • 29 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“At its best, graphic design can be thought provoking, beautiful, memorable and leave a lasting impression." >
The Unmasked Women project tackles mental health among black women

Design News • 28 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The creative project is prioritising the work of young black women artists. >
A new preservative-free way to protect food from spoiling

Design News • 28 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This plant-based food design can extend the freshness of fruits and vegetables up to four times. >
Feather sculpture honours bond between Ireland and a Native American nation

Design News • 27 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Towering 20 feet into the Irish sky, Kindred Spirits recognises the Choctaw Nation for their generosity during Ireland's Great Famine. >
Jacque Njeri’s vibrant graphic art reimagines the Maasai people in outer space

Design News • 27 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The Kenyan artist’s MaaSci series is a vivid example of Afrofuturism. >
Three innovative buildings that show the way forward in architecture

Design News • 26 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Take a look at the cutting-edge solutions designers have used to solve modern problems of the built world on three different continents. >
UK agency launches playful Anti-Brexit Campaign

Design News • 26 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

"The idea of ordering a burger and not receiving what was expected is a feeling that everyone can relate to.” >
Morag Myerscough's design converted at Cape Town primary school to inspire kids

Design News • 23 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This project extends the life of ‘Embrace the Unknown’, the structure that was erected at Design Indaba Festival 2018. >
Could wastewater biorefinery help in the Cape Town water crisis?

Design News • 22 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

As we observe World Water Day, Cape Town's management of a severe drought is an example of what's to come. >
Blinky Bill on why he does not want to be restricted to a particular music genre

Design News • 22 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“I want to make genreless sound – but if you absolutely have to place it, it is a mix of hip-hop, afrobeat and jazz.” >
Cape Town entrepreneur is designing a new language around menstruation

Design News • 22 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Entrepreneur Zizipho Ntobongwana challenges everything from the packaging to ads to sustainability. >
The Calmingstone counters panic attacks and stress

Product Spotlight • 21 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

This hand-held design emits soothing signals that target anxiety, bringing you back to a state of zen. >
14 graphic designers to watch

Design News • 21 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

These up and coming visual artist showed us a sneak peak into the future of graphic design in South Africa. >
Mozambican photographer Mario Macilau on documenting the lives of society's most vulnerable

Design News • 20 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

"My work is also a personal documentary. I prefer long-term projects that require commitment and trust." >
A wound-healing gel inspired by slugs

Design News • 20 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Where sutures and stitches fail, doctors are turning to the restorative slime of gastropods. >
Stone Wool is an eco-friendly way to control the temperature in our homes

Design News • 20 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Engineers have identified this material as a better way to build and protect our homes and spaces. >
Journalists are fighting censorship using streaming sites like Spotify and Deezer

Design News • 19 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The Uncensored Playlist uses a streaming loophole to get censored news to the public in repressed countries. >
On transforming diarrhoea treatment in Zambia with a simple solution

Design News • 19 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The award-winning innovator, Simon Berry says he hopes in the next ten years there won’t be a need for ColaLife to exist. >
LEGO is rolling out its first plant-based plastic blocks

Design News • 19 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

The popular toy brand is making vast strides towards a more sustainable future. >
Nüshu is an ancient secret language developed by women

Design News • 16 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

These women would embroid their Nüshu scripts on fabrics such as quilts, aprons, and handkerchiefs. >
Dina Amin on stop animation, upcycling in Cairo and her inspiration

Design News • 16 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“I kept thinking, questioning whether we actually need all the things that we produce..." >
IBUKU is pioneering the use of bamboo as a sustainable building material

Design News • 16 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

“Bamboo buildings are like a living organism, every bamboo pole represents the ‘DNA’ of the building." >
Meet the future of South African fashion

Design News • 16 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

These are the young creatives in the fashion industry who formed part of our Emerging Creatives programme for 2018. >
Graduates in Chile transform abandoned urban lots into community spaces

Design News • 15 Mar 18 • Sponsored Content

Sitio Eriazo, a collective of theatre, architecture and art graduates are on a mission to restore beauty to these spaces. >

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Objets d’art

Design News • 3 Jan 23

The Maison&Objet biannual design and decor fair in Paris will host over 700 brands between 19 and 23 January 2023. >
In the zone

Design News • 3 Jan 23

Dyson tackles both air and noise pollution with a sci-fi-esque set of headphones. >
Blossoming creativity

Design News • 3 Jan 23

The first contemporary florilegium in Africa is reviving botanical art with the aim of furthering conservation. >
Building blocks

Design News • 3 Jan 23

The latest project of international architecture company Office for Metropolitan Architecture employs stacked structures to make best use of limited space. >

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