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Life through the lens

Design News > Art & Photography

A Russian photographer is awarded for documenting the social transformation of the traditional ‘reindeer people’

10 Jul 22
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All the feels

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Fernado’s high-end fashion brand taps into the emotional connection we have to fashion items

10 Jul 22
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Design World Mourns

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Pioneering Marcus Fairs “changed the landscape of design journalism”

7 Jul 22
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Straw men

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A sustainable model with houses made of straw is coming to the Netherlands

3 Jul 22
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A great catch for fashion

Design News > Product Design

A start-up is harnessing invasive species to supply the fashion industry with fish leather

3 Jul 22
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Dreams in 3D

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors

Lumka Jordan designs interiors that are enhanced by her own homewares and fragrances.

3 Jul 22
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Skyfall

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Frank Gehry reveals a striking addition to the skyline of his home city, Toronto

1 Jul 22
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The shape of water

Design News > Art & Photography

Maya Lin’s sprawling installations pay homage to – and ask questions about – watery ecologies

29 Jun 22
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The presence of absence

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The Bamiyan Cultural Centre in the Bamiyan Valley meditates on the complex history and uncertain future of Afghanistan

29 Jun 22
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It takes a village

Design News > Product Design

Intrepid designer Lani Adeoye is inspired by the organic rhythms of the traditional society, adapting them for modern audiences

29 Jun 22
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Subverting narratives

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Siyabonga Mtshali designs Gqom luxury apparel for the black queer body

29 Jun 22
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Arbour days

Design News > Design Activism

Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway

21 Jun 22
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Superstructures

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors

Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change

21 Jun 22
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Home and away

Design Frontiers > African Design

The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment

21 Jun 22
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Dream, explore, discover

Design News > Product Design

Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe

21 Jun 22
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Future compostable

Design News > Product Design

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

13 Jun 22
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Hold my beer

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

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

13 Jun 22
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A continental visionary

Q&A > Design Thinking

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges

13 Jun 22
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Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

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

13 Jun 22
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When pictures tell stories

Q&A > Art & Photography

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

6 Jun 22
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Photographic memory

Design News > Art & Photography

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

6 Jun 22
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Just beachy

Design News > Product Design

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

6 Jun 22
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For the birds

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

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

6 Jun 22
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Heightened play

Design News > Film & Animation

Francesco Nassimbeni’s film, ‘AEIOU’ has scooped the prestigious Jury Award for Best Experimental Short at this year’s Cannes Short Film Festival. Here’s why

30 May 22

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