Design News

The African dream in China

Design News • 3 Apr 17 • Sponsored Content

A new documentary follows African people as they navigate the city of Guangzhou, China as people become more fearful of immigration. >
Transforming the built environment

Design News • 3 Apr 17 • Sponsored Content

Tour & Taxis is Vincent Callebaut Architecture’s plan for a green haven in Brussels. >
Two campaigns that raise awareness by altering public spaces

Design News • 3 Apr 17 • Sponsored Content

In this age of digital marketing and social media, these campaigns prove physical installations remain potent in generating awareness. >
See the hyper-realistic pencil-portraits by Arinze Stanley

Design News • 3 Apr 17 • Sponsored Content

The Nigerian artist’s stunningly intricate work is making waves. >
Meatwreck: the artistic duo challenging the notion of beauty

Design News • 3 Apr 17 • Sponsored Content

Mitra Saboury and Derek Paul Boyle’s unusual imagery makes the ordinary uncomfortable. >
Roadhouse: Picturing South Africa's Ekurhuleni

Design News • 31 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A new photography initiative in Gauteng, South Africa. >
The fading tribes of the Omo Valley

Design News • 31 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This photographer documented some of the last societies left untouched by the Western world. >
Check out the musicians paving the way for the sounds of Africa

Design News • 31 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

From Black Coffee to DJ Steloo, you won’t want to forget the names of these beatmakers. >
The otherworldly creations of Nomes Dee

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Zambian graphic designer Nomes Dee is inspired by Afrofuturism. >
Sound of the Eye: Unique, Algorithmic Compositions by Aragorn23

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Aragorn23 is an experimental musician, who creates algorithmic and movement-based compositions. >
Coding emotion and culture into art

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

"I try to make art that means something to people like me," says South African artist Lorenzo Plaatjies. >
SLAMP: Lights poised between aesthetics and technology

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Italian lighting atelier SLAMP reinterprets classic Italian design with futuristic flair. >
This music video doubles as a PSA for domestic violence

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Created for UK singer Frances’ song Grow’, the animated film addresses the isolating nature of abuse. >
Vibrant Paralympic Games ad wins Art Director’s Club of Europe award

Design News • 30 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

The ‘We are the Superhumans’ campaign celebrates the disabled community. >
Cape Town illustrator talks local style and narrative

Design News • 29 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

We spoke to Emerging Creative Russell Abrahams about maintaining a visual language in illustration. >
Turning spinach into organs

Design News • 29 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

The answer to the problem of organ transplantation demand could be Popeye’s favourite vegetable. >
The Centre for the Less Good Idea

Design News • 29 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Visual artist William Kentridge has created a space to nurture the growth of South African artists. >
The art of Lina Viktor makes black womanhood the focus

Design News • 29 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Using 24-karat gold, the New York City-based artist elevates the power of identity. >
Wednesdays with Goddard

Design News • 29 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. >
The Skin I’m In by Nicole Buchanan

Design News • 28 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

The photographer’s work gives a voice to minority students. >
Cairo: Youth in resistance

Design News • 28 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Director Selim El Sadek documents the youth who challenge the system through hip hop in Cairo, Egypt. >
Grandmothers, Afrofuturism and Nairobi-beats

Design News • 27 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Kenyan photographer Osborne Macharia directs his first film, the music video to Blinky Bill's new song "Atie". >
A shirt that pulsates with the intensity of music

Design News • 27 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This wearable device allows the hearing impaired to experience music. >
The unspoken cost of precious metals

Lookbook • 27 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A literal depiction of what we gain from mining versus the longterm landscape destruction that follows. >

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When pictures tell stories

Q&A • 6 Jun 22

Fashion and portrait photography allow Thulani Kubeka to paint with light. >
Photographic memory

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past >
Just beachy

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa >
For the birds

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere >