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A farming and recreational space designed to bring a community together

Design News • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Bottle Seedling House is a multipurpose shelter that aims to improve the quality of life for a farming community affected by HIV/AIDS. >
Eliminate wrinkles by applying a ‘second skin’

Design Frontiers • 16 May 16 • Sponsored Content

A new, “second skin” solution to wrinkles could also lead to more medical advancements. >
Rich Mnisi on building a fresh fashion brand in South Africa

Talks • Duration: 00:06:29 • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

South African designer Rich Mnisi shares his creative journey (catwalk included) as part of the Global Graduates selection at Design Indaba Conference 2016. >
When life hands you elephant dung, make paper

Design Frontiers • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Kenyan entrepreneurs are protecting their environment by turning elephant dung into paper. >
Pop culture and people inspire Monde Mabaso’s illustrations

Q&A • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba 2016 Emerging Creative, Monde Mabaso is a Johannesburg-based illustrator who finds inspiration through this thriving city. >
Oded Ezer designs the Life/Death t-shirt

Product Spotlight • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Tel Aviv-based graphic design artist Oded Exer designed a t-shirt to help refugees. >
Portable surgical sterilisation suitcase

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Eniware is a new sterilisation system that aims to have a positive impact on health care in developing countries. >
Alfredo Brillembourg: Architecture as a response to social issues

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:27 • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Alfredo Brillembourg’s work addresses the housing crisis and poverty through architecture. >
The Honey: Representations of blackness as power

Design News • 13 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Rendani Nemakhavhani's dynamic photo series "The Honey" turns away from blackness as struggle. >
Jeanne Gang: The architecture of policing in America

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:20 • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Founder of Studio Gang, Jeanne Gang talks about how architecture can help address police brutality in America. >
Budapest-based brand NewFoldr champions cardboard electronics

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

NewFoldr aims to create a recyclable electronics movement to challenge the global e-waste issue >
"Inside Ya Body" looks inside the body for inspiration

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Jack Sachs' solo installation takes a quirky, animated look at the inside of the human body. >
Artist’s mock machine guns are sculpted from old typewriters

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Denver-based Ravi Zupa brings gun violence to the fore in “Mightier Than”. >
Snail shell shelter brings user closer to nature

Design News • 12 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Helix is a micro-architecture structure that can shelter one nomadic individual. >
Tony Gum: Young, carefree, made in Africa

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:36 • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Labelled the coolest girl in Cape Town, “Artist in learning” Tony Gum tells us about her creative philosophy and why she is often her own muse. >
Three innovative solutions to water shortage in South Africa

Design Frontiers • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

These three ideas were submitted to Hack4Water, an initiative aimed to help solve some of SAs water challenges. >
Treating mental illness with virtual reality

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

An Oxford University study tested virtual simulation on sufferers of severe paranoia, with positive results. >
Swawou School for Girls finally opens its doors to students in Sierra Leone

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Orkidstudio unveils its free-education school in eastern Sierra Leone after the Ebola outbreak put the project on hold. >
The FoodShare Truck: Fresh produce at affordable prices

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

The travelling food market offers fresh produce at cheaper prices to locals that otherwise can’t access or afford it. >
Photographer documents the unseen life of Senegal’s talibes

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Photojournalist Mario Cruz’s photobook explores the harsh lives of Senegal’s modern child slaves. >
Revitalising Detroit by giving homes to writers

Design News • 11 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Write A House is a non-profit that provides vocational training to Detroit locals while trying to stabilise a city in decline. >
Transforming London’s Trafalgar Square into a crazy golf course

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Designed by the late Zaha Hadid, the undulating course will be futuristic, functional, fun and free for the public. >
Sundial installation 3D-printed with sheets of plastic

Design News • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

Contemporary sundial uses solar data to change shape according to the natural trajectory of the sun. >
New African Photography Exhibition hosted in New York

Next Generation • 10 May 16 • Sponsored Content

African artists and photographers are getting some serious attention and exposure overseas. Here's a look at one current exhibition in New York. >

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