Design News

Gaza Girls: Girls of the Gaza Strip is a testament to the resilience of the women of Palestine

Design News • 7 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

Monique Jaques’ photography captures a universal sense of girlhood in Gaza. >
Wacom Creatives: Alberto Montt on storytelling through illustrations

Design News • 6 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

“As human beings we have an enormous capacity of assigning stories; we feel stuffed with our stories, and I love that.” >
The Heat Rescue stove provides practical survival tools for those in need

Design News • 6 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

Following a natural disaster, this kit can help a group of people keep themselves warm and fed until emergency response arrives. >
Thomas Chapman on the creation of the Arch for Arch project

Design News • 5 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

The architect and urban designer talks about this momentous project to honor Nobel Peace Prize winner, Desmond Tutu. >
Elodie Lascar’s beautiful illustrations re-imagine the female form

Design News • 5 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

The French artist’s work provides a nuanced interpretation of womanhood. >
The global addressing system, what3words continues to garner international attention

Design News • 4 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

What3words ensures that basic services can reach even the most remote places. >
From dreaming up stories to starting a movement with Buhle Ngaba

Design News • 1 Sep 17 • Sponsored Content

We catch up with the woman taking stories to where they're needed most. >
The 2017 Beazley Design of the Year finalists include Kanye West, IKEA and architect Sir David Adjaye

Design News • 29 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The nominees feature more than 60 projects that span six categories – architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. >
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News • 28 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News • 25 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >
On Nathan Reddy, one of the leading design specialists in the ad industry

Design News • 24 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The founder of GRID Worldwide Branding and Design, was inducted into the Loeries Creative Hall of Fame. >
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News • 24 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

Sleep debt facts say yes. >
See these custom tributes to the iconic Prince

Design News • 23 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The icon’s passing was a shock to many, but at least we’ll be able to replicate his purple hue. >
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski

Design News • Duration: 00:02:48 • 23 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist. >
From outmoded storage cylinder to innovative knowledge hub

Design News • 22 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

This storehouse will be transformed into a dynamic information centre on sustainable energy for the city of Heidelberg. >
Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering

Design News • Duration: 4:32 • 22 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer. >
Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16

Design News • 21 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design. >
Diversifying media imagery to include more ethnicities with TONL

Design News • 15 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

This agency works to arm advertisers and designers with the tools to represent all races in their campaigns, not just one. >
Dutch artist Thirza Schaap reveals the delicate beauty that can be found in garbage

Design News • 11 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

Instead of a bombastic crusade, this project raises awareness of marine pollution in a gentle, considered style. >
The deformed realities of graphic artist Anxo Viscaíno

Design News • 10 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

"I would rather focus more efforts on developing art and culture than spending too much time protecting my copyright," he says. >
Desktop bioengineering by Amino Labs

Design News • 10 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The small-scale kits empower the scientists and innovators of tomorrow. >
An affordable, open-source home

Design News • 9 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

As part of the push toward sustainable design, Studiolada released plans for the Open Source House. >
This new exhibition calls on feminism to be diverse

Design News • 9 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

Feminisms x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora to open at London’s Protein Studios. >
Crystal Kung on bringing warm feelings to life through her illustrations

Design News • 8 Aug 17 • Sponsored Content

The Taipei-based illustrator “I don’t think my drawing skills comes from talent. They come from hard work”. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >