Design News

Kate Moross: How to make mess look good

Design News • Duration: 00:00:09 • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Design News • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Design News • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Stepping up solar efforts

Design News • 16 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
The Torturous History of the Treadmill

Design News • Duration: 02:20 • 16 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

One of the world’s most common exercise machines has quite a draconian past. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Design News • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
5 sustainable fashion brands

Design News • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

We highlight five brands making clothes ethically >
Constructive Interference in the mind

Design News • Duration: 00:53 • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This sculpture demonstrates the ease with which our minds are mystified by optical illusions. >
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

Lookbook • 14 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Benjamin Grant’s photographic tome shows the world from a thought-provoking angle. >
A safe, drug-free way to train your body to fight stress

Design News • 13 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Will we be able to control our bodies stress responses with the help of technology? >
The magical figures of the Haas Brothers

Design News • 13 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

These LA-based artists blur the lines between nature and psychedelia. >
Seeing nature in an unusual way

Design News • Duration: 01:00 • 12 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

The Flow installation of Maotik offers a unique view of the weather around us. >
Photographer captures childhood fears

Design News • 12 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Ghost stories and monsters brought to life in A Raven’s Dream. >
3600 panties focus attention on South Africa’s rape crisis

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

A trio of South African artists strung up 3600 donated panties in a public display against violence. >
This is Olafur Eliasson. We'll let him introduce himself

Design News • Duration: 00:02:11 • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards. >
The plastic bottle artworks of Veronika Richterová

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This Czech artist demonstrates the potential to find beauty in garbage. >
Nigerian designer celebrates friendship in a new streetwear line

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Onwuchekwa by Chikezie Daniel is a made-in-Nigeria high street brand. >
Battling climate change with holistic solutions

Design News • 8 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Farmers in Guatemala are adapting to climate change using climate-smart strategies. >
Beauty is in the nostrils of the beholder (NSFW)

Design News • 8 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Conceptual photo series challenges our perceptions of beauty by splicing together the human body in an unnerving way. >
New photobook charts photographer Yasser Booley’s Rainbow Nation

Design News • 8 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

"South Africa at Liberty" documents the work of prolific South African photographer Yasser Booley. >
The miniature embroidered portraits of Danielle Clough

Design News • 8 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

The artist that reproduces the faces of strangers with needle and thread. >
The Divine Divas

Design News • 7 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

A teen-centric approach that combines pampering with healthcare >
Salooni: A project that explores black women's hair

Design News • 7 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Pop-up hair salon Salooni explores the politics woven into black hair. The project has just been awarded a grant by The British Council to travel in 2017. >
3D-printed maps are a tactile solution for visually impaired students

Design News • 7 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

A team of researchers, teachers and students are helping the blind feel their way around. >

From the Archives

Future compostable

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier >
Hold my beer

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >
A continental visionary

Q&A • 13 Jun 22

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >
Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

Design News

Pages

From the Archives

Africa is Now

Design Activism

TwitterFollow @designindaba