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Avoid projecting: Kot Bonkers is neither a political nor a feminist artist

Design News • 11 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Kot Bonkers is a brazen illustrator who fiercely defends her right to draw for the sake of it and identify with no political groups, despite audience opinion. >
This town in Mali is built almost completely out of mud

Design News • 11 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The Great Mosque of Djenne survives through the dedication of local builders who help to re-plaster it each year. >
A collective of artists are preserving Mexico's linguistic diversity

Design News • 10 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

“No one can love what he does not know.” >
Doctor turned designer Kgahlego Kewana talks us through her unlikely path

Design News • 6 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The Emerging Creative exhibited her work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019 among 49 up-and-coming South African talents. >
Gabrielle Goliath honours victims of sexual-based violence through sound and art

Design News • 5 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The winner of this year's Standard Bank Young Artist Award talks about her latest project called This Song is For... >
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala on new ways to tackle electricity shortage in Uganda

Design News • 4 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The CEO of Bakulu Power takes us through their work in Buvuma, one of the only districts without electricity in the country. >
The African projects harnessing alternative energy

Design News • 3 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

“We must be more ambitious in harnessing the power of renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals” >
Marjan van Aubel uses intelligent design to solve energy and food production problems

Design News • 3 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

In her work she looks at our current relationship with solar technology and how it can be used to enhance and future-proof city living. >
OurArtworks is a creative haven for Mississippi's disabled community

Design News • 30 May 19 • Sponsored Content

“Anyone who has a disability has the ability to create art.” >
Drawing water out of thin air

Product Spotlight • 29 May 19 • Sponsored Content

How Majik Water tapped a water source that is all around us. >
Siddhant Shah is bridging the gap between disability and cultural heritage

Design News • 28 May 19 • Sponsored Content

“Designers and architects live with the misconception that accessibility is only restricted to the physical aspect of a space... that's a fallacy." >
Mileha Soneji designs low-tech tools for Parkinson’s patients

Design News • 28 May 19 • Sponsored Content

The product designer has created two products to cater to people suffering from Parkinson's. >
Funfere Koroye on product design for the West African consumer

Design News • 23 May 19 • Sponsored Content

Nigerian product designer has designed a range of products that take into account the uniqueness of a West African consumer. >
The industrialisation of the natural world

Design News • 22 May 19 • Sponsored Content

Speculations on the future of biodiversity after the sixth mass extinction. >
Artist Nuria Mora on Spain’s biggest inclusive art event of its kind

Design News • 20 May 19 • Sponsored Content

Along with 14 other artists, Nuria Mora is helping to rebuild and inspire art inclusivity in Spain’s forgotten region of La Mancha. >
Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future

Design News • 17 May 19 • Sponsored Content

SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future. >
Exploring Shantell Martin’s unique interactive illustrations

Design News • 15 May 19 • Sponsored Content

The London-born, New York-based artist is creating larger than life artworks that comment on intersectionality, identity and play. >
Meet the South African artists exhibiting at La Biennale Di Venezia

Design News • 10 May 19 • Sponsored Content

Titled The Stronger We Become, the South African Pavilion will feature works by Dineo Seshee Bopape, Tracey Rose and Dineo Seshee Bopape. >
Kgodisho Mowa’s work tackles inequality and political apathy

Design News • 8 May 19 • Sponsored Content

"Countless people are fighting for equality and fairness, and fighting for broken promises by the government, but they don't get the spotlight they deserve.” >
Manipulating bad eating habits with product design

Design News • 7 May 19 • Sponsored Content

Portion Distortion is a conceptual design project that explores the psychology behind our eating behaviour. >
Omar Nagati on renegotiating Downtown Cairo through design

Design News • 3 May 19 • Sponsored Content

“You need to include in any plan or revision for Downtown or any neighbourhood, the local community, which is not necessarily the case so far." >
Meet Botswana's Queens of Marok

Design News • 2 May 19 • Sponsored Content

South African photographer Paul Shiakallis documents the leather-wearing women of Botswana’s heavy metal scene. >
This photographer gave homeless people cameras to document their lives

Design News • 30 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

After five days, 45 of the cameras were returned and over 600 images developed. The results were astonishing. >
Federico Babina uses architecture to explain mental illness

Design News • 29 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Babina cleverly represents what different mental illnesses look like. >

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Athi and Irma

Q&A • 24 May 22

Finding connections between South Africa’s past and present >
Eye on the prize

Design News • 22 May 22

Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of the award-winning Atelier Masōmī, will lead the design of a new museum and cultural centre – Bët-bi – in southwestern Senegal >
Stylin’

Q&A • 22 May 22

Riyaadh Ismail’s sustainable, gender-neutral luxury streetwear redefines Johannesburg street culture >
Story of my life

Q&A • 16 May 22

Njabulo Maseko is on a mission to open doors for the youth to express the power of their inner creativity >