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Open call for Design Futures Lab 2023

NOTE: This feature has been edited to reflect new dates – the deadline has been extended. Do you want to create an immersive digital experience about sustainable fashion and design? After a successful inaugural Design Futures Lab 2022, the application...

February 17, 2023

5 Artists who work with waste exhibit at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023

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5 Artists who work with waste exhibit at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023

Living amid social and environmental catastrophes requires innovation and creativity to help find solutions, catalyse change, and comfort us in the face of adversity. We are seeing this in the artworld as more and more artists respond to the environmental...

February 15, 2023

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PAIS Agency makes images to inspire new fashion futures

The fashion industry thrives because of the way clothing is represented in the media and the aspirations this shapes. As an extension of fashion, fashion photography echoes the systemic imbalances and inequities present, and deeply rooted, in the fashion system....

February 14, 2023

The District Six Huis Kombuis Memory Project uses Homecrafts to Evoke Memory

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The District Six Huis Kombuis Memory Project uses Homecrafts to Evoke Memory

“At the District Six Museum, we are trying to facilitate a pilgrimage of return. We want people who lived in District Six to feel a sense of belonging because if you don’t have roots, you feel lost,” says Tina Smith,...

May 3, 2022

Artist Zyma Amien Celebrates the Art of Garment Workers

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Artist Zyma Amien Celebrates the Art of Garment Workers

“Once I was in art school, I looked back and realised that I had been living in a home of artists my whole life,” says Zyma Amien, “we didn’t become artists – we always were artists.” Zyma was 46 years...

March 1, 2022

8 African Textile Artists Stitching Worlds

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8 African Textile Artists Stitching Worlds

Textiles have been at the centre of trade and civilisation for millennia and the connection between textiles and art goes way back too. Textile art uses different fibres as a medium of expression, from embroidery, weaving, tapestries, and more. In...

February 14, 2022

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Open Call for Design Futures Lab 2022

Have you got a sustainable fashion story you want told in an immersive digital format? Electric South, Twyg Magazine and Crossover Labs are excited to invite dynamic creative technologists and digital storytellers to apply for the Design Futures Lab 2022.

December 9, 2021

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Open call for Design Futures Lab 2023

5 Artists who work with waste exhibit at Investec Cape Town Art Fair 2023

PAIS Agency makes images to inspire new fashion futures

The District Six Huis Kombuis Memory Project uses Homecrafts to Evoke Memory

Artist Zyma Amien Celebrates the Art of Garment Workers

8 African Textile Artists Stitching Worlds

Open Call for Design Futures Lab 2022

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