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Trailer: Tia Blassingame on the texture of racism in the United States

Trailers • Duration: 00:00:48 • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Recent graduate Tia Blassingame explores the relationships between race, history and perception in her work. >
The texture of racism & slavery in the United States – a talk by Tia Blassingame

Talks • Duration: 00:08:44 • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

"I made a headscarf that talks about the accumulation of wealth through slavery, as the black body as gold but also seeming worthless." >
Htein Lin immortalises 1000 of Myanmar's political prisoners

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Myanmese artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin aims to cast the hands of 1000 political prisoners in plaster of Paris as a reminder of Myanmar's past. >
Koe Koe, Myanmar's first health app, is going to revolutionise healthcare in the country

Design Frontiers • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Koe Koe Tech founder Michael Lwin says he is going to fix Myanmar's healthcare with this comprehensive mobile app. >
Self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids about healthy living

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Interactive, self-sustaining kitchen teaches kids how to grow and cook food. >
Step into Erik Spiekermann's world

Profiling • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Find out what makes prolific typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann tick as Freunde von Freunden take us into his home and studio in Berlin. >
Three housing solutions that tackle hyper-urbanisation in Africa

Design News • 8 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Ethiopian and Bauhaus students collaborate on experimental urban housing prototypes to accommodate the massive growth of Africa's urban population. >
Panzagar campaign battles hate speech online in Myanmar

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

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. >
Myanmar: Battling poverty with human-centred design

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Proximity Design’s creations help people in Myanmar survive in extreme poverty. >
A fleet of bicycles are cleaning up the densely populated and polluted city of Lagos

Design Frontiers • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Wecyclers, a fleet of low-cost tricycles, offers a convenient recycling service to densely populated, low-income Lagosian neighbourhoods. >
Bentley van Wyk: Mastering the art of pottery

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:49 • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Ceramic designer Bentley van Wyk masters traditional techniques in his contemporary ceramic designs. >
Yangon Bakehouse upskills Myanmese women to start their own businesses

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A coffee shop in Yangon empowers disadvantaged women in Myanmar with its food and beverage training programme. >
A preview of Ghanaian artist Ofoe Amegavie's untitled exhibition

Design News • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Ghanaian photographer Ofoe Amegavie's pain speaks through his latest work. >
Nigerian students build zero-emission car

Next Generation • 7 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

A team of Mechanical Engineering students of the University of Lagos have designed and built an electric and eco-friendly car. >
Refugees Welcome is becoming known as the Airbnb for refugees

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Refugees Welcome is a Berlin-based non profit that connects displaced refugees to citizens with spare rooms in European cities. >
The CimaVax vaccine is Cuba's most recent gift to cancer treatment

Design Frontiers • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

The Centre of Molecular Immunology in Cuba is making great strides in cancer research with a new vaccine. >
La Marca – Cuba's first legal tattoo parlour

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

La Marca's innovative tattooists attempt to capture Cuba on the skin of their customers. >
Could Wale Williams be Nigeria's new superhero?

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Lagos-born digital animator Roye Okupe releases his afrofuturistic graphic novel based entirely on African characters. >
From junk to jewellery: Mariana Acosta challenges the meaning of preciousness

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

One man's junk is another man's contemporary jewellery, proves designer Mariana Acosta. >
Kwamie Liv's animated video is dark, eerie and beautiful at the same time

FilmFestFriday • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

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. >
The Bhulk 3D-printed bike frame is made from plants

Design News • 4 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Italian design studio Eurocompositi are attempting to change the way we make bicycles. >
The rise of tech and innovation in Africa

African Report • 3 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

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. >
Masixole Feni's photographs show how dignity and sanitation are inextricably linked

Design News • 3 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

Activist photographer Masixole Feni has won the Ernst Cole award for his images, which show that inadequate sanitation robs people of their dignity. >
Dominic Wilcox reveals crazy breakfast tech

Design News • 3 Sep 15 • Sponsored Content

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

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