Design News

Toyin Ojih Odutola’s portraits show black skin as textured and diverse

Design News • 23 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“We have enough about what my skin looks like but what does it feel like?’ >
Feyi Olubodun on what international brands get wrong about the African consumer

Design News • 23 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"I argue very strongly that sophistication and westernisation don’t mean the same thing. You can be sophisticated and not be westernised." >
Designer Anne Kiwia upcycles discarded cloths to create high fashion headbands

Design News • 22 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“We have enough clothes. The world is full of it. We need to start protecting our environment and stop being needless consumers.” >
Tech to empower marginalised communities

Design News • 18 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Human rights activist and storyteller Thenmozhi Soundararajan on the power of knowledge creation in the hands of the oppressed. >
Could the heat generated by blockchain be useful for other living beings?

Design News • Duration: 00:11:25 • 15 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

With a project called Farm, MIT student Gary Zhang shows that heat generated in the blockchain has many uses. >
(P)residant: Those who don't let go of power

Design News • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"I call them 'les presidents residants' because they never want to leave power once in the seat." – Fabrice Monteiro, photographer, Dakar. >
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone

Design News • Duration: 00:09:03 • 11 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.” >
Bringing Afrocentric design to Milan Design Week

Design News • 10 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Meet the South African designers who will be exhibiting their work for the first time at Milan Design Week. >
Here’s how movement can form type

Design News • 9 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The story of movement has just begun and we're really looking forward to where your designs take it.” >
Youngsta: Rapping the stories of the Cape Colony

Design News • 3 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

We sat down with one of South African rap's busiest and most artists. >
Constant, a photo series on pain, love and healing

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

“The constant title came about when I had a serious reality check that I was the constant denominator in all my failed relationships." Basetsana Maluleka >
Alexis Peskine explores the black experience through unconventional mediums

Design News • 2 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

He speaks on his Afro-French heritage, immigration and the global black experience. >
The African crown reimagined

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by the work of J.D. Okhai Ojeikere, Medina Dugger and GIF artist François Beaurain celebrate the complexity of hair in Nigeria. >
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News • 1 Apr 19 • Sponsored Content

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >
This Bible-verse inspired building has a unique swan-like design

Design News • 28 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

The distinctive roof is a pearly white concrete structure with sweeping, futuristic curves. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 27 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Abstract Peaces: Redefining mental illness

Design News • 26 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Conceptual photographer Tsoku Maela challenges the stigma around mental illness by drawing on his personal experience. >
Four designers are looking to redesign the gynaecology experience

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Yona is trying to redesign the uncomfortable vaginal speculum using human-centred experience design. >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem

Design News • 25 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek. >
Cairo architect Nada Elhadedy on architecture driven by circumstance

Design News • 20 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

“So instead of using the building as a barrier… we used it to promote openings and interaction.” >
Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News • 20 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News • 18 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News • 14 Mar 19 • Sponsored Content

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >

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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 >
Walking, talking chair

Design News • 16 May 22

A Lithuanian exhibition is inviting heart-to-hearts between historical furniture items and modern-day design objects >
Rebuilding Kharkiv

Design News • 16 May 22

British architect Norman Foster proposes rebuilding the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv from the ground up >
Bioplastic fantastic

Design News • 16 May 22

Designer Luke Pearson closes the production loop with the collaborative product bFRIENDS >