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Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

In April 2014 a Myanmar blogger and activist started the Panzagar ("Flower Speech") campaign to battle the online hate speech that led to offline violence.

7 Sep 15
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Myanmar: Battling poverty with human-centred design

Design News > Product Design

Proximity Design’s creations help people in Myanmar survive in extreme poverty.

7 Sep 15
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A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Wecyclers, a fleet of low-cost tricycles, offers a convenient recycling service to densely populated, low-income Lagosian neighbourhoods.

7 Sep 15
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Bentley van Wyk: Mastering the art of pottery

Video Interviews > Craft

Ceramic designer Bentley van Wyk masters traditional techniques in his contemporary ceramic designs.

7 Sep 15
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Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

Design News > Creative Economy

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme.

7 Sep 15
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A preview of Ghanaian artist Ofoe Amegavie's untitled exhibition

Design News > Art & Photography

Ghanaian photographer Ofoe Amegavie's pain speaks through his latest work.

7 Sep 15
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Nigerian students build zero-emission car

Next Generation > Design Thinking

A team of Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Lagos have designed and built an electric and eco-friendly car.

7 Sep 15
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Refugees Welcome is becoming known as the Airbnb for refugees

Design News > Design Activism

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities.

4 Sep 15
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The CimaVax vaccine is Cuba's most recent gift to cancer treatment

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The Centre of Molecular Immunology in Cuba is making great strides in cancer research with a new vaccine.

4 Sep 15
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La Marca – Cuba's first legal tattoo parlour

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

La Marca's innovative tattooists attempt to capture Cuba on the skin of their customers.

4 Sep 15
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Could Wale Williams be Nigeria's new superhero?

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lagos-born digital animator Roye Okupe releases his afrofuturistic graphic novel based entirely on African characters.

4 Sep 15
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From junk to jewellery: Mariana Acosta challenges the meaning of preciousness

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

One man's junk is another man's contemporary jewellery, proves designer Mariana Acosta.

4 Sep 15
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Kwamie Liv's animated video is dark, eerie and beautiful at the same time

FilmFestFriday > Music & Sound Design

Danish artist Baby Duka is a multi-talented – he created the beats for Kwamie Liv's low-burning track, "Pleasure This Pain" and animated the music video.

4 Sep 15
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The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Design News > Industrial Design

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles.

4 Sep 15
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The rise of tech and innovation in Africa

African Report > Information Design

The tech and startup scene in Africa is burgeoning. Now innovation is being taught in schools, with the help of the LEGO Education Innovation Studios.

3 Sep 15
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Masixole Feni's photographs show how dignity and sanitation are inextricably linked

Design News > Design Activism

Activist photographer Masixole Feni has won the Ernst Cole award for his images, which show that inadequate sanitation robs people of their dignity.

3 Sep 15
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Dominic Wilcox reveals crazy breakfast tech

Design News > Product Design

British designer Dominic Wilcox was challenged by Kellogs to change the face of breakfast time, and he answered in the most Wilcox way possible.

3 Sep 15
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A sustainable salt city in the desert

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

At only 24 years old architecture graduate Eric Geboers has already designed a solution to global desertification.

3 Sep 15
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Humanitarian shelter for the sick and displaced in Nepal delivered by Ikea

Design News > Design Thinking

Ikea is putting the innovative design they're celebrated for into action in crisis zones across the world, such as Nepal, to give people better shelters.

3 Sep 15
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The same, but different: queer identical twins in video installation Factum Tremblay

Design News > Film & Animation

Identical twins Natalyn and Jocelyn Tremblay talk candidly about their lives and the experience of coming out in simultaneous interviews on a split screen.

3 Sep 15
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Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana: Connecting the dots of advertising

Video Interviews > Creative Economy

Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana review the benefits of working in a digital space and the importance of strategy in a campaign.

3 Sep 15
00:04:07

Chuck Porter: Do great work, be your own client

Video Interviews > Creative Economy

Advertising executive Chuck Porter speaks of the importance of becoming your own client and creating your own brands.

2 Sep 15
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Edible Cinema adds another dimension to film

Design News > Food Design

The collaborative effort of the Soho House and Teatime Productions aims to add bespoke edible creations to cinema.

2 Sep 15
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James Greenfield on how to rebrand a multi-billion dollar company

Inside View > Creative Economy

The creative director behind Airbnb’s largely publicised rebranding discusses his approach to branding projects.

2 Sep 15

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