Design News

Parallel: Si MacLennan and Ross Symons collaborate on a new project

Design News • 20 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The two artists have incorporated their unique styles into a colourful creation. >
SkinTrack: the next step in wearable technology

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The new device uses your arm’s surface as a touch-screen, extending the interface of the smartwatch. >
Plastic recycling initiative supports waste pickers in developing countries

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Amsterdam-based group Reflow drive a socially responsible 3D printing community >
John Radcliffe Studios documents the regular lives of refugees

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Foreigner: Migration into Europe 2015–16, is a photography series that hopes to portray a less sensationalist account of the refugee crisis. >
Y&R Paris' 3D printed animals challenge the way life is reproduced

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Life can’t be reproduced. Y&R Paris' series of images shows the fragile circumstances of wildlife. >
Photographer documents the last nomadic people of Nepal

Design News • 19 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The Raute are Nepal’s last nomadic people nestled in the foothills of the Himalayas. This photo series captures their resistance to the modern word. >
Pentagram’s typographic installation draws attention to animal and plant conservation

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designed in response to a call by artists Ackroyd & Harvey, Pentagram’s typographic installation lets viewers highlight endangered species. >
21st Century farming technology to address global food crisis

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Urban Produce is a sustainable vertical farming system that looks toward the future of agriculture. >
Brad Harris’ illustrations capture the innocence of everyday childhood

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

South African artist Brad Harris draws from childhood experience to create stories and illustrations that capture child-like innocence. >
Florine Demosthene explores the black female form using mixed media art

Design News • 18 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by her travels in Africa, Florine Demosthene has created a new black heroine. >
Now they’re 3D printing bones

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have developed a new material that can be used in bone replacement surgery. >
Livi brings nature indoors

Product Spotlight • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The portable planter has a new take on interacting with nature. >
Claudia Liebenberg explores masculine themes through delicate watercolour illustration

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Illustrator Claudia Liebenberg uses her passion for art to mentor some of South Africa’s disadvantaged kids. >
Edible insects: Won’t you pass the bugs?

Design News • 17 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NB Studio reimagines major food brands and chains with insects as their main ingredients. >
Open Eyes: The social ad campaign with a vision

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Following the moving advertising campaign #OpenEyes, we talk to FoxP2 at about why a brand needs to make people feel something in order to be relevant. >
Wear Your Label wants a stigma-free society

Product Spotlight • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Wear Your Label gets people talking about mental health through fashion and jewellery design. >
Pop-up sweatshop appears in Amsterdam

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Customers face the harsh reality of where their clothes come from in this pop-up sweatshop. >
A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >

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An architecture icon

Design News • 24 Jul 23

Pakistan’s first female architect has shown us how architecture can change lives for the better. >
Metamorphosis

Q&A • 24 Jul 23

‘I always make clothes that I would want to wear … forever,’ says 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Shamyra Moodley. >
Running wild

Design News • 24 Jul 23

These running shoes help spread plants and seeds in the city. >
Designing for good

Design News • 24 Jul 23

Unique collaboration including 600 designers creates solutions for clean water and sanitation. >