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Jessica Hische - Like Knows Like

FilmFestFriday • 17 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

This short film takes a revealing look at American typographer Jessica Hische's everyday life. >
Take Five

Take Five • 17 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

This week, readers loved our African Report, in which we profile Lagos-born textile and accessories designer Buki Akib. >
How the Cape Was Made

Design News • 16 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The "Make It New" exhibition traces the Western Cape's indigenous past and contemporary creativity through craft and design. >
Paul Priestman: How I developed a taste for transport

Q&A • 16 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The designer behind London's next-generation underground trains tells us about the perks and perils of being a designer – and where he goes to escape them. >
"Golide" by Sonye

Track of the Week • 16 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Track of Week is a light and catchy love song by Malawian R&B singer-songwriter Sonye. >
Using design thinking to help fight Ebola

Design News • 15 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

OpenIDEO and USAID launch global call for innovative tools to help health-care workers on the frontlines of the virus. >
A toy that teaches empathy

Design Frontiers • 15 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Canadian industrial designer Ilana Ben-Ari’s puzzle game teaches the creative skills children won’t find in textbooks. >
Dean Poole on playing with words

Talks • Duration: 00:34:03 • 15 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The creative director of New Zealand agency Alt Group reveals the ABC's of his creative language. >
Ed Suter launches wallpaper

Product Spotlight • 14 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The Cape Town-based photographer brings the vibrant style of Africa's street life and tropical climate indoors. >
Why formulas for creativity fail

Inside View • 14 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Patrick Barron, who led the blockbuster "Dumb Ways to Die" campaign, says what works for one brand won't necessarily work for another. >
Nikki Gonnissen: No more rotten tomatoes

Video Interviews • 14 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The Amsterdam-based graphic designer tells us why she stepped out of her comfort zone to design for the Dutch Socialist Party. >
Tile style

Lookbook • 13 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

We round up the top five tiles trends that emerged at the recent Cersaie international exhibition of ceramic tiles in Bologna, Italy. >
Mushroom mania

Design News • 13 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Ineke Hans gets playful with her latest glassware collection for Czech brand Křehký. >
Dean Poole on playing with words (trailer)

Trailers • 13 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

"Part of the system of creativity is creating the rules," says Dean Poole at Design Indaba Conference 2014. >
It's a sign

Focus On • 12 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

We often take for granted the graphic signs that help us navigate our environments. Here are four excellent examples of wayfinding designs from our archive. >
Africa through the lens

Lookbook • 11 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The winning work from the third annual POPCAP photography competition celebrates new visions of Africa. >
Paragon takes top sustainability honours

Design News • 10 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

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

African Report • 10 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Buki Akib's luxurious fashion accessories capture the pulsating rhythms of her West African heritage. >
Take Five

Take Five • 10 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Readers loved graphic design maestro Seymour Chwast's personal history of the evolution of styles this week. >
A haunted, handmade world

Next Generation • 10 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Artist Ali Aschman makes emotionally layered animations using handmade puppets and paper cut-outs. >
'Function/Void' by The Bug and Factory Fifteen

FilmFestFriday • 10 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

This creative collaboration of music and film offers up a dystopian vision of a possible near-future. >
"Kinshasa" by Alec Lomami (CHLLNGR Remix)

Track of the Week • 9 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Our Track of the Week is an Afro-electro ode to the idea of home by Congolese rapper-producer Alec Lomami. >
Brass Top dressing table by James Mudge

Product Spotlight • 9 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town-based designer-carpenter James Mudge crafts a delicate, contemporary dressing table. >
Mark Kaigwa: Tracking digital trends in East Africa

Video Interviews • 8 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The Nairobi-based social media strategist and blogger tells us where digital technology is heading in Kenya. >

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