When I arrived in Johannesburg in late August, the city was just beginning to shift from winter to spring. The air still carried a chill, but the jacarandas were hinting at bloom. It wasn’t my first ...

Less than a month after laying off nearly a fifth of its staff, Fab has released a new pop-up boutique, signaling the company’s aggressive shift away from flash sales to exclusive retail. The pop-up ...

In South Africa, craft may be ancient, but design is young. With the launch in 2017 of the world-class Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa designed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick in Cape ...

This innovative, open-access directory aims to serve as a centralised resource for discovering and connecting with designers across disciplines – from fashion, architecture, and product design to ...

A few years ago, I had a conversation with David Carson, where I asked him: “Do you think designers today are too dependent on tools like Adobe Creative Cloud, Figma, and even regurgitated trends and ...

His response has stayed with me—he suggested that creativity has been toned down, making everything feel too similar. Design has become too available, too easy, and as a result, experimentation and ...