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The face of the future

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The overall winner of the Dutch Design Awards is 'Sweetie', a project that fights sex tourism online through an avatar that has the appearance of a young girl. >

18 Oct 14
Paragon takes top sustainability honours

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

The Johannesburg-based firm won the 2014 AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture for its design of the Alexander Forbes Headquarters. >

10 Oct 14
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Readers loved graphic design maestro Seymour Chwast's personal history of the evolution of styles this week. >

10 Oct 14
For the love of trees

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Product Design

Trees must be one of nature's finest designs. We roundup five designs from our archive that take their inspiration from the leafy form. >

5 Oct 14
What's in a brief?

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Watch Tom Bassett's documentary "Briefly", featuring interviews with top designers such as Frank Gehry, Yves Béhar and David Rockwell. >

1 Oct 14
Light and shadow

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The subtle play of light through the spaces of this children's facility in the Japanese town of Yamadi-machi is designed to encourage healing. >

29 Sep 14
Call for submissions: "Take Two" at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design

We're planning an exciting new exhibition on the second life of objects – and we want your work to be part of it. Apply before 31 October! >

19 Sep 14
Working on Water

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Watch the full episode from Al Jazeera's Rebel Architecture series on Nigerian architect Kunlé Adeyemi's groundbreaking projects in Lagos and Port Harcourt. >

16 Sep 14
Reminder: Enter the A’ Design Awards

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

The standard deadline for this global design competition is 30 September. Latecomers pay extra so register and submit your work today! >

15 Sep 14 / Advertorial
London Design Festival: Our picks

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

We go in search of all things Africa at the London Design Festival. Here are our highlights. >

12 Sep 14
Take Five

Take Five > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

This week Ilze Wolff's opinion piece on gender in architecture peaked readers' interested. See what else made it into the top five stories. >

12 Sep 14
Marti Guixé: Creativity without culture and knowledge is just spam

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors / Food Design / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

The playful Catalonian designer gets serious about culture and creativity. >

8 Sep 14
A million ways to be an architect

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors

Ilze Wolff questions her place in a profession that celebrates the achievements of the single, "star" – and invariably male – architect. >

8 Sep 14
Paradigm city

African Report > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

For architecture agency Beyond Entropy Africa, Luanda is a kind of muse inspiring bold, creative solutions to regional urban problems. >

5 Sep 14
Fluid forms

Profiling > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Nigerian-born Ifeanyi Oganwu is a rising design talent who creates highly engineered, sculptural furniture. >

4 Sep 14
Touch wood

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

The finalists for the first "Wood Excellence Prize" at the World Architecture Festival take the creative application of wood to new heights. >

3 Sep 14
Tomà Berlanda: Building for education in Rwanda

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

This Italian architect is helping to pioneer a new model for early childhood development centres being built in Rwanda. >

1 Sep 14
Take Five

Take Five > Architecture & Interiors / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

From Brazil to Swaziland, London to Nairobi, this week's top stories bring you a truly global design perspective. >

29 Aug 14
An artisanal architect in Nairobi

African Report > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Kenyan-born Naeem Biviji is a rare kind of architect who takes on only small-scale projects and crafts all his furnishings by hand. >

22 Aug 14
Lookbook: Inside Cape Town's modernist textile factories

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

An Open House Architecture tour offers a rare glimpse inside the iconic buildings that were at the centre of the city's rag trade. >

18 Aug 14
Focus on: Marcelo Rosenbaum

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

With Sao Paulo Design Weekend in full swing, we feature a carnival of creativity by this exuberant Brazilian designer. >

16 Aug 14
Take Five

Take Five > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Our five most popular stories this week went off the beaten track, featuring creatives who operate outside of the mainstream. >

15 Aug 14
Michel Rojkind on a design strategy to cope with overstimulation

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

The Mexican architect shares three ways he wades through our world of chaos and flux to create award-winning work. >

13 Aug 14
Guerilla Architect – trailer

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Film & Animation

Watch a preview of the first episode of "Rebel Architecture", Al Jazeera's new documentary series on architects who push the boundaries of the profession. >

12 Aug 14

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