Design Week Lagos returns from 18–25 October 2026 with Making a New Africa: From Material to Market, bringing together design, research, manufacturing, culture and commerce around one defining ...

Design Week Lagos 2026 unveils new ideas in African design, exploring how local creativity can translate into commercially viable products.

Spending his days designing high-end residences for South Africa’s ultra rich, architect Tshepo Mokholo was miserable. Craving a change, Mokholo attended the influential Design Indaba conference in ...

LAGOS.- Design Week Lagos 2026 was officially inaugurated at the National Theatre in Lagos on 22 October with the 180 New Ideas exhibition and IDEA Honours awards ceremony. Design ...

Is African design having a moment? Not according to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a denizen of contemporary art. Rather, the curators believe the continent’s artists and architects are shaping the ...

Speaking at the launch of Pan Afrikan Design Week 2026 in Cape Town, Gugu Motlanthe urged Africa to move beyond consuming foreign ideas and lead ...

The Salone del Mobile. Milano, one of the world’s leading furniture and design exhibitions, has made its debut in Nigeria, with plans to strengthen its presence in Africa’s rapidly expanding design ...

Every business leader knows his or her success depends on a viable and sustainable market. That’s what the young Laduma Mgxokolo saw in front of him as a student working on a thesis project at Nelson ...

Curators: Amelie Klein, Vitra Design Museum; Petra Joos, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is pleased to present Making Africa – A Continent of Contemporary Design, an exhibition ...

“When did it start? It really started in my head a long, long time ago.” So says Emily G. Hanna about when the idea came to her for the new exhibition at the Mingei International Museum. To hear her ...

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