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Yinka Ilori on telling stories through furniture design
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Product Design
“If the chair you are sitting on could tell your story, would it be a dangerous or good thing?”
10 Jul 17
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Filmmaker Jessie Zinn on telling truthful and sincere stories
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Film & Animation
The director is one of a growing list of young female Cape Town filmmakers making their mark in the industry.
10 Jul 17
00:01:48
Jabu Newman and The Foxy Five on representation and visibility
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Film & Animation
The team behind the explosive web series talk about the importance of female-led filmmaking.
7 Jul 17
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Beautiful Boy by Lissa Rivera explores the visual language of gender
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Art & Photography
Celebrating gender identity as a repertoire, not a classification.
7 Jul 17
00:40:08
Winy Maas on innovating into the future of architecture
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Dutch architect chats about how he is unlocking the potential of buildings in overcrowded cities.
5 Jul 17
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Living canopy changes its appearance throughout the day
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Design Thinking
This responsive design merges biology, architecture and maths to form a canopy that responds to light.
5 Jul 17
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The surreal body art of South Korean artist Dain Yoon
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Art & Photography
This artist uses her face as the canvas for unique optical illusion artworks.
5 Jul 17
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Weird Box is an innovative short film driven by the participation of Instagram followers
Design News
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Film & Animation
Software developer Noah Levenson’s latest design integrates users’ Instagram posts into a short film.
4 Jul 17
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Swiss-born Rafael Kouto wants to dewesternise fashion
Design Frontiers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
"The next big thing in fashion is open source and engagement of the consumer in the creative process."
4 Jul 17
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On breaking down plastic waste for the benefit of nature
Design News
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Design Thinking
A look at different approaches that challenge the ‘non-biodegradable’ barrier.
4 Jul 17
00:00:00
ULTRACONTEMPORARY Exhibition explores political art and its function in society
Design News
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Art & Photography
This collection of “emergency” art pieces is based on the fast pace at which our world changes.
3 Jul 17
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Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal.
3 Jul 17
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This music festival has the perfect solve for flat batteries
Design News
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Design Thinking
Students at Australia’s UniSA designed a bespoke solar phone charging stand for the WOMADelaide Festival.
3 Jul 17
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Cape Town feminist clothing brand on moving beyond t-shirts
Product Spotlight
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The founders of C(l)it on unlearning their white privilege and next steps
30 Jun 17
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Artist Ai Weiwei turns salvaged refugee lifejackets into a large-scale installation
Design News
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Design Activism
The artist and activist collected about 3 500 life jackets to highlight the disturbing conditions refugees are subjected to
30 Jun 17
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FAKA on penetrating art spaces and designing a new sound
Profiling
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Music & Sound Design
Through their art, the duo is interrupting global performance and art spaces one event at a time.
30 Jun 17
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Gabon-born photographer tells the story of the Central African country’s youth
Design News
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Art & Photography
An artist in the diaspora, Yannis Davy Guibinga connects with his heritage through photography.
29 Jun 17
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These teen girls built a solar powered tent for LA's homeless people
Design News
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Product Design
DIY Girls is empowering teen girls to pursue the fields of technology and engineering.
29 Jun 17
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Add Colour teaches design thinking to South Africa’s youth
Design News
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Design Activism
A pilot project by Sk8 for Gr8 aims to uplift through creativity in some of South Africa’s historically disadvantaged areas.
28 Jun 17
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French astronaut shares captivating images of Earth
Design News
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Art & Photography
While they might look like fungi under a microscope, these photographs are actually of mountain ranges and cityscapes.
27 Jun 17
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Design Commons is a new kind of bespoke, global, portable conference
Design News
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Creative Economy
The deconstructed conference where design is the tool with which to face the challenges in our cities.
27 Jun 17
00:02:06
Kenyan photographer behind renegade grannies series chats Afrofuturism
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Film & Animation
For Osborne Macharia, Afrofuturism is about recreating a different Africa based on fantasy, fiction and history.
26 Jun 17
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Bare Technology uses E-waste to make accessible computers for the elderly
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Product Design
The award-winning product was designed by two students with no design background
26 Jun 17
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Dough Universe: the children’s toy range inspiring future inventors
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Product Design
Technology Will Save Us launches three new Electro Dough inspired activities.
26 Jun 17
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