Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Design remains a largely white profession, with Black people still vastly underrepresented – making up just 3% of the design ...

The first time Nana Quagraine googled “African design” was in 2018. She had just launched 54kibo, an online retailer of contemporary African home decor, and noticed that unlike “Scandinavian design” ...

From the moment you step into Titi Ogufere’s orbit, one thing becomes clear — she’s not just a designer but a visionary. The Lagos-based trailblazer is the founder of Design Week Lagos and the first ...

Zanele Kumalo is the curator of Design Week South Africa, a celebration of design that takes place every October across Johannesburg and Cape Town. Here, we talk to Kumalo about providing a platform ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Writ large on banners flanking the monumental staircase of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the West African greeting of ...

How would the inspirations from the pyramids of Egypt, thatched and mud huts of West Africa translate in today's digital design? I was catching up with one of my friends from Yahoo recently and at ...

With a world-class museum that is the biggest public art space to open on the continent for more than a century, annual art fairs in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and vibrant gallery scenes that have ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Audrey G. Bennett, University of Michigan (THE CONVERSATION) Design remains a largely ...

Design remains a largely white profession, with Black people still vastly underrepresented – making up just 3% of the design industry, according to a 2019 survey. This dilemma isn’t new. For decades, ...