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News Mbari Uno Saving Lives Using Design
Apr 5, 2019DoctorNoDey- Makoko Community ‘’For every person we train...there’s one more person to save a life’’…
Article Unpopular Opinion; Tertiary Education Is Not Near Enough
Mar 28, 2019‘’47% of Nigerian University graduates are unemployed’’ -Jobberman Nigeria higher education system is estimated to…
Article From Wall Murals to the BMW 750Li Individual; Esther Mahlangu Collaborate with BMW to take Local South African Art to the World
Mar 1, 2019Esther Mahlangu and the BMW 750Li Individual || BMW Born into her craft, South African…
Article Unscrambling Africa: Mutua Matheka and Co Sets Out to See Africa Beyond the Rot
Dec 14, 2018Guided by jealousy, greed and mutual suspicion, the great European powers of the 19th century…
Article The Slave Calendar: David Prior’s Portraits Preserve South Africa’s Past and Reminds Them of Forgotten History
Nov 16, 2018As Archbishop Desmond Tutu profoundly intoned, the history of slavery in the Cape of Good…
Article Utopianism and African Design: Contemporary African Designers Must Be Community-Oriented
Oct 22, 2018Francis Kere’s prints on his native Gando Community. Dezeen || Photograph by Enrico Cano It…
Article Afrofuturism; Is that Not Black Panther
Sep 28, 2018The Place of Afrofuturism in African Design ''Can a community whose past has been deliberately…
Article Renaissance of African Design and Global Competing Realities
Sep 7, 2018Why 'Designed-in-Africa' is competing with history. A quick Google search into products that are made…
Design Review Lekan Jeyifo’s Shanty Mega-Superstructures Amplifies the Lives of Lagos’ Impoverished
Aug 16, 2018At the heart of all design works, there should exist a desire to attend to…
News IKEA Collaborates With African Designers to Launch African Collection ‘’OVERALLT’’ in 2019: Lessons.
Aug 14, 2018Prompted by a need to tap into the ‘creative explosion’ spreading across Africa’s design space,…
Opinion. Article The Deplorable Condition of Education in Nigeria Needs Redesigning.
Aug 3, 2018Why Do We Need to Redesign Education In Nigeria? One of the earliest social structure…
Design Review The Makoko Floating School: Why Kunle Adeyemi’s Masterpiece is a Philosophy for the Future
Jul 27, 2018During the Venice Architecture Biennial in 2016, anchored under the Gaggiandre covered shipyards, was a…
Design Review A Critical Review Of Nigeria Air’s Identity Design
Jul 19, 2018An Appraisal of Nigeria Air’s Identity Design A testament to the value of a design…
News The Hidden Clues In the Just Unveiled Nigeria Air Identity
Jul 18, 2018During the Farnborough International Airshow in London, Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika…
News Aziza Design Celebrates Four Years of Leading Innovation
Jul 6, 2018John Maynard Keynes once said: ‘The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas…