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Cool runnings

Design News • 10 Jan 22 • Sponsored Content

A simple chemical reaction powers new cooling tech that keeps things cold without electricity. >
Celebrating the Arch

Design News • 10 Jan 22 • Sponsored Content

Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. >
The house that LEGO built

Design News • 10 Jan 22 • Sponsored Content

Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups >
Holding sway

Design News • 10 Jan 22 • Sponsored Content

Parametric design turns an urban office block into an object of wonder >
Rain on me

Design News • 30 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Tactus Design Workshop’s self-sustainable home of the future >
In the raw

Design News • 30 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair >
Exploring interspecies art

Design News • 30 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences >
From kelp to catwalk

Design News • 30 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion >
Curiosity thrilled the cat

Design News • 17 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Meet the purrrr-fect bionic spy robot for cat lovers >
100 Beautiful Baskets

Design News • 17 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

A curated exhibition that celebrates African weavers >
Tackling sanitation taboos with panache

Design News • 17 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Jasmine Burton’s creative approach to WASH challenges can change the world for billions. >
Dazzling with design

Design News • 17 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

How Yinka Ilori’s technicolour storytelling is taking over the world >
African storytelling comes of age in CODA

Design News • 14 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

The urban documentary delves into how we mark the passing of time >
Out of this world

Design News • 13 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’ >
The seeds and the sower

Design News • 13 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Art and design fuse effortlessly in Jan Ernst’s first solo exhibition in France >
Morag Myerscough’s #CleanPower installation brightened up COP26

Design News • 13 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

We chat to the designer about her recycled ocean plastic flags >
Vigil for Virgil

Design News • 8 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

We pay tribute to creative polymath and trailblazer Virgil Abloh >
Cannabis-inspired book redefines the stoner aesthetic

Design News • 7 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

This homage to pot will amuse and delight anyone interested in this unique sub-culture. >
Edel Rodriguez illustrates children’s book on rock icon Jimi Hendrix

Design News • 6 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Edgy artwork captures the iconoclastic musician’s rise to fame in the psychedelic Sixties >
Bicycle parking garage scoops major design award

Design News • 6 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

An 8 000m² “space-age airport for cyclists” boosts The Hague’s transport hub >
I, Robot

Design News • 1 Dec 21 • Sponsored Content

Robot Café run remotely by differently abled workers wins top Japanese design award >
Louis Vuitton unwraps first vegan sneakers

Design News • 30 Nov 21 • Sponsored Content

The sustainable footwear is made from 90% recycled and bio-based materials >
Bringing wind turbines into urban spaces

Design News • 29 Nov 21 • Sponsored Content

Joe Doucet’s Wind Turbine Wall is a kinetic sculpture that harnesses the power of the wind >
Adrift in wonder – discover Expo 2020 Dubai’s eco-friendly Italian Pavilion

Design News • 29 Nov 21 • Sponsored Content

Construction materials include coffee grounds, orange peels and spirulina algae >

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Finding hope

Q&A • 12 May 23

Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Oteng Hope Kopiso applies no limits to her craft. >
House of memories

Design News • 12 May 23

A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill. >
To-do list

Design News • 12 May 23

Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives. >
Bathroom break

Design News • 12 May 23

Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms. >