Design News

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. >
Mbongeni Fongoqa uses graphic design to uplift township businesses

Design News • 27 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Beauty and function merge to create a new kind of public space. >
Would you drink beer made from sewage water?

Design News • 27 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A California brewing company has created a ‘delicious’ beer using recycled wastewater. >
The Thermotrap Project

Design News • 24 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This start-up initiative aims to uplift the living conditions of township residents. >
This kids clothing range literally grows alongside your child

Design News • 24 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

“Slow fashion for fast growing kids.” >
Meet Mr Trash Wheel, a clever water pollution solution

Design News • 24 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A self-sustaining trash collector that cleanses urban waters using renewable energy. >
This queer visibility comic already has 800 backers

Design News • 24 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Tee Franklin’s Bingo Love is a new take on queer relationships, heartbreak and growth. >
Shape: Design is everywhere

Design News • 24 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

A film about design. If for one day you had the power to make your world work better, what would you change? >
Dear White America

Design News • 23 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

US-based artist Inyegumena Nosegbe’s newspaper project is a poignant look at police brutality. >
Refugee chefs share the taste of home

Design News • 23 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Eat Offbeat: An unprecedented cookbook featuring recipes and stories by refugees now working as chefs in New York City. >
The Dark Room

Lookbook • 23 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Expat photographer illustrates the nature of depression in surreal gloom. >
A delicate portrayal of brutality

Lookbook • 23 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This artist depicts the subject of sex inequality in a stylised and all-encompassing way. >
Giving back with ethical fashion

Design News • 23 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Eco-friendly and ethically made, Allmade pushes the boundaries of the ordinary t-shirt. >
Waves for Water

Design News • 22 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This new documentary, released on World Water Day, follows former pro surfer Jon Rose and his mission to help bring clean drinking water to those in need. >
The font of life

Design News • 22 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Download and donate to the millions living without water. >
Greeting cards for people of colour

Design News • 22 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

US-based creative Tara James creates greeting cards as a reflection of cultural tradition. >
Hooded: Subversion through photography

Design News • 21 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Myles Loftin confronts the stereotype of the hooded black man in a new multimedia project. >
Why wastewater?

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

World Water Day 2017 will look at the way we manage the precious resource during every part of the water cycle. >
Buddibox: A community-driven courier network in South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This organisation tackles local unemployment by facilitating small-scale courier services. >
Arch for Arch celebrates Archbishop Tutu and the freedom of South Africa

Design News • 20 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

It will be launched on 7 October, 2017 to coincide with The Arch's 86th birthday. >
Stories of feral children told through photography

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

This photographer sheds light on the cruelty faced by children as they are abandoned by society absolutely. >
A conceptualised take on gendered domestic bliss

Design News • 17 Mar 17 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women addresses our gendered view of domesticity. >

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From the Archives

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 >