Tracey Walker

Just a Band of Kenyan electro-heads

Jepthumba talks to Kenyan electronic music makers Just a Band, whose popularity has been growing since their 2008 debut album "Scratch to Reveal". >
Chris the Pencil brings us a different kind of weather report

A Cape Town graphic designer is documenting Cape Town’s vacillating weather patterns and his accompanying moods in a bold design-a-day project. >
Glasses enable doctors to see malignant cancer cells in the dark

A Nigerian scientist working in the United States has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for his ground-breaking cancer-visualisation glasses. >
A glass bubble transforms in motion

"Holon" is an intriguing glass sculpture created by Dutch designers Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens. >
Ninjabreadboy confronts the dark drinking culture of the Winelands

"Late Harvest" confronts the problem of alcohol dependency within the farming communities juxtaposed against the beautiful Cape Winelands. >
Young township photographer Sipho Mpongo is heading to New York

This is the story of a boy from Langa who went to a school dance with a “stolen” camera and found himself and his camera on a plane to New York. >
Pink Intruder builds a cardboard pavilion in Valencia’s town square

The Ekklesia pavilion was assembled in the centre of a crossroads in the Spanish city of Valencia to coincide with the annual Falla festival. >
Portraits of Afghan women imprisoned for “moral” crimes

Photographer Gabriela Maj gained direct access to female prisoners in Afghanistan after being overlooked by guards. >
Smart Specs offers a visual aid to the legally blind

Smart Specs are new augmented reality smart glasses designed by Oxford University research fellow Dr Stephen Hicks. >
Disaster Playground premieres in London on World Asteroid Day

The premiere of the film Disaster Playground by Nelly Ben Hayoun opened today at the BMI in London. Not coincidentally it's also World Asteroid Day. >
Whose fish is this? The Cannes Lion 2015 controversy

A little iron fish added to a pot of food stirred up controversy at the Cannes Lion Awards Festival this year. >
Martijn Engelbregt: Breaking society out of its rut

Meet the ringmaster of Circus Engelbregt who oversees the delicate act of subverting social norms using design. >
William Kentridge’s "Notes Towards a Model Opera" opens in Beijing

The UCCA in Beijing mounts a retrospective of William Kentridge’s work and introduces his new installation, a projection inspired by China’s socialist operas. >
A human organ on a microchip wins Design of the Year 2015

The line between medical science and design just got narrower with London’s Design Museum’s top award going to Human Organs-On-Chips. >
Timorous Beasties’ moth design takes to the skies

Multi-award winning wallpaper designers tackle a new challenge: the tail-wrap for a new jet. >
A mesmerising time-lapse video shows the painting of a tiny hot dog

Watch the gradual emergence of a life-like miniature hot dog by artist Lorraine Loots for her new collection, “Potluck 100”. >
#MakeChange: Honest-to-goodness products by KIN Culture

A group of South African designers have created a range of products whose sale supports KIN Culture's mission to establish an alternative model of orphan care. >
Ido Garini’s adventures into the art of eating

Chef and industrial designer Ido Garini wants you to eat make-up and consider what you look like eating a strawberry. >
Deanne Viljoen: Playing with furniture

The owner of De Steyl tells us about the furniture design studio's shift to creating modular furniture that invites the user to intertact with it. >
InnovateSA winners tackle malnutrition with spirulina

Paragon Protein by a group of Cape Town teenagers is an affordable and appetising way to incorporate spirulina into impoverished people's diets. >
Juno blanket by Mungo Designs

Mungo Design have revived an age-old tradition of giving the gift of warmth. >
Ferrofluid – the strange magnetic substance you have never heard of

We have rocket science to thank for the existence of an alien-looking fluid that is slowly creeping into the creative world. >
Our top 10 design projects on Kickstarter

It’s #DesignMonth on Kickstarter! We select our favourite new inventions – from a toothbrush made of bioplastic to an inside-out umbrella. >
Public seating gets a smart upgrade in Maboneng

The isabelo smart bench in downtown Joburg is an example of win-win innovation that will allow us to share ideas from city streets. >

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