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4 Circular designers share ideas for radically redesigning our world

In a new video series, What Design Can Do’s Make it Circular Challenge interviews four circular designers about the importance of circular design and the urgent need to radically redesign the world we live in. Never before have we produced,...

January 18, 2023

Q&A: Designer Awa Meité pays homage to Mali’s design traditions

Fashion Q&A

Q&A: Designer Awa Meité pays homage to Mali’s design traditions

Awa Meité is a recognised multi-talented fashion and textile designer, filmmaker, stylist, and painter. Based in Mali’s capital city Bamako, Awa’s label spotlights local artisans who are responsible for some of the country’s most thoughtful garments and accessories. We caught...

November 11, 2022

3 Upcycling initiatives reimagining plastic and textile waste

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3 Upcycling initiatives reimagining plastic and textile waste

Waste is a symptom of a consumerist, linear economic system that thrives on extracting natural resources to create more stuff than is necessary. As a remedy, the circular economy is widely viewed as a pathway towards a more sustainable future....

October 13, 2022

Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles

Fashion

Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles

Lucie Panis-Jones is a multifaceted textile designer, based in Cape Town, whose work includes artful mending and textured weaving. Growing up in many countries across the world – including Zimbabwe, the United States, France, Spain, and Belgium – gave Lucie...

June 10, 2022

South Africa to join global effort to clean up plastic pollution

Features

South Africa to join global effort to clean up plastic pollution

Plastic waste is a blight on the environment and the planet’s oceans, taking a heavy toll on marine life. Now, South Africa has taken steps to ensure waste along the plastic lifecycle is being addressed. Marine litter and plastic pollution...

February 18, 2022

Why a single solution won’t solve our waste issue

Features

Why a single solution won’t solve our waste issue

We are facing a waste crisis, with landfills across the world at full capacity and mountains of “recycled” waste dumped in developing countries. Food packaging is a major source of this waste, giving rise to an industry of “environmentally friendly” reusable food and drink...

September 10, 2021

Fashion

Unmasked Moments

Mother Nature needs our urgent attention. For this year’s #PlasticFreeMzansi campaign, fashion designer Lezanne Viviers of VIVIERS Studio and photographer Thirza Schaap created works to convey this important message. Images placed alongside each other are a double act using, in...

August 1, 2021

It will take much more effort than beach cleanups to solve problem plastics

Features

It will take much more effort than beach cleanups to solve problem plastics

After recent big ocean swells, SA’s beaches have become clear evidence of a plastic crisis. We collected two bags of waste in less than 10 minutes on Camps Bay beach last week. There are the usual culprits such as earbuds,...

July 31, 2021

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

Fashion

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

Three years after he launched his menswear brand, Joburg-based designer Samkelo “Boyde” Xaba won South African Fashion Week’s Scouting Menswear Competition. His 2020 winning collection, in accordance with the judging criteria, illustrates that the designer reduces waste, uses low impact...

March 26, 2021

Beauty

9 Zero-waste beauty products to change up your routine

Product packaging is the number one contributor of plastic waste. The cosmetic industry is guilty of exacerbating this problem with its excessive packaging. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation advises that we eliminate the plastics we don’t need so luckily, there are...

March 3, 2021

10 ways to living an eco-friendly life according to Nourish’d’s Natasha Napoli

Opinion

10 ways to living an eco-friendly life according to Nourish’d’s Natasha Napoli

With over 26,000 followers on Instagram it is safe to say that self-proclaimed ‘crazy urban hippie’ and founder of plant-based cafe and juice bar, Nourish’d, Natasha ‘Tash’ Napoli is an eco-warrior trailblazer. After leaving a very different life on the...

August 13, 2020

Zaynab Sadan shares her personal guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle

Opinion

Zaynab Sadan shares her personal guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle

We have lost our connection to nature says Zaynab Sadan. The masters science graduate from the University of Cape Town says it was researching and discovering how many different systems co-exist that drove Zaynab’s determination to resolve some of the...

June 12, 2020

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

Opinion

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

No man is an island. Everything we do, even the smallest gesture, can make a difference. This is not just an expression, it is a scientific fact: sociological research has shown that when a person or a group does the...

December 10, 2019

Designer tracks Europe’s throwaway clothing to Salaula market in Zambia

Fashion

Designer tracks Europe’s throwaway clothing to Salaula market in Zambia

When Lotte de Haan first arrived in Zambia three years ago, she spotted someone wearing a soccer club T-shirt from the Dutch village where she grew up. “I was so surprised. It is a super-local soccer club.” At the time,...

November 18, 2019

Everyday heroes weigh in on the war on plastic

Features

Everyday heroes weigh in on the war on plastic

Have you ever wondered why certain types of plastic bottles are plucked out of your rubbish by “trolly-preneurs” every week? These informal recyclers are looking for PET bottles that can be “sold” at buy-back recycling centres. What makes PET (the...

July 25, 2019

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4 Circular designers share ideas for radically redesigning our world

Q&A: Designer Awa Meité pays homage to Mali’s design traditions

3 Upcycling initiatives reimagining plastic and textile waste

Q&A: Lucie Panis-Jones reminds us of the hands behind our textiles

South Africa to join global effort to clean up plastic pollution

Why a single solution won’t solve our waste issue

Unmasked Moments

It will take much more effort than beach cleanups to solve problem plastics

Q&A: BOYDE’s creative director gives us the lowdown on his award-winning work

9 Zero-waste beauty products to change up your routine

10 ways to living an eco-friendly life according to Nourish’d’s Natasha Napoli

Zaynab Sadan shares her personal guide to an eco-friendly lifestyle

Book extract: Ten small things we can do to make a difference

Designer tracks Europe’s throwaway clothing to Salaula market in Zambia

Everyday heroes weigh in on the war on plastic

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