Design News

We caught up with graphic artist Leigh Le Roux

Design News • 22 May 17 • Sponsored Content

South African graphic designer uses emotive illustrations to tell the stories of ordinary people. >
Reducing carbon footprint of the built world with Solidia Technologies

Design News • 22 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Eco-friendliness can be achieved even in the granules with which we construct buildings. >
Love Story: A tale of refugees featuring Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore

Design News • 19 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Forced migration is a recurring theme at this year's Venice Biennale. An installation in the South Africa pavilion interrogates empathy. >
Pop culture through the eyes of Tony Futura

Design News • 19 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Humour in art reveals interesting questions about modern society. >
Not here for men

Design News • 19 May 17 • Sponsored Content

3 Must-see music videos addressing the abuse of women. >
Pedaling for clean air

Design News • 19 May 17 • Sponsored Content

A new addition to the Smog Free Project, and it comes in bicycle-form. >
This music video lets rip on the music industry’s so-called ‘Gatekeepers’

Design News • 19 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Jessie Reyez takes on industry sexism and misogyny with this short film. >
Rich Mnisi merges film with fashion

Design News • 18 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Check out this cinematic lookbook for Rich Mnisi's latest trans-seaonal collection Xingelengele. >
Three creatives on the power of storytelling in any medium

Design News • 18 May 17 • Sponsored Content

In these interviews, we speak to creatives across the spectrum of storytelling to prove that the worldwide pastime is no longer bound by the medium. >
Engaging a community through street art

Design News • 18 May 17 • Sponsored Content

The Paint Jamaica initiative brings colour and creativity to the streets of Kingston. >
A simpler way to purify water

Design News • 18 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Scientists have devised a simple way to separate microscopic pollutants from water. >
Children’s literature goes digital

Design News • 17 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Innovative children’s library provides a fun learning alternative. >
Abandoned spaces in Hong Kong

Design News • 17 May 17 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Faith47 shares the third installment of Aqua Regalia – a video set in the grimy, semi-abandoned spaces of Hong Kong. >
3 Ways to hack discrimination in the US

Design News • 17 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Hacking Discrimination aimed to find technology-based solutions to address discrimination. >
Meet the Fadiouth community of Senegal

Design News • 17 May 17 • Sponsored Content

This book illustrates valuable solutions in infographic form for this small West African town. >
5 examples of great creativity from Poland

Design News • 17 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Known for its vast history and diverse culture, Poland also has mad artistic chops. >
International film festivals can’t get enough of this South African film

Design News • 16 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Krotoa, scheduled for release in South Africa in August this year, tackles an underrepresented history. >
High-tech hopes for hearing loss

Product Spotlight • 16 May 17 • Sponsored Content

A breakthrough home-use technology for early detection of tinnitus >
The nightmarish scenes of Regenerative Being

Design News • Duration: 07:21 • 16 May 17 • Sponsored Content

A look at the handmade, macabre and nuanced animation of Stas Santimov. >
What will meat products of the future look like?

Design News • 16 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Product designer, Carolien Niebling, delves into the potential shortage of protein-rich food we could face in future. >
Bringing back the cassette tape

Product Spotlight • 15 May 17 • Sponsored Content

New tech meets the nostalgia for the humble cassette tape. >
5 stories that show technology combined with bugs can result in great design

Design News • 15 May 17 • Sponsored Content

Proof that RoboCop isn’t the only one to benefit from a mecha-treatment. >
The Shelter Box by Milano in Azione

Design News • Duration: 02:32 • 15 May 17 • Sponsored Content

A multifunctional design made to alleviate the harshness of living on the street. >
Up in the clouds

Design News • 12 May 17 • Sponsored Content

These designs draw inspiration from the everyday cumulus. >

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From the Archives

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. >