Design Issue 2016

The Design Issue explores how creativity across Africa and its diaspora is reshaping aesthetics, craft, and urban life. From experimental fashion ateliers in Ouagadougou and community-led urbanism in Cape Town and Medellín, to fictional narratives, visual poetry, and multidisciplinary designers redefining African identity, the issue captures a continent in motion, bold, resourceful, and self-authored. Through profiles, reportage, and vivid visual storytelling, it celebrates the makers, thinkers, and dreamers designing their lives and their cities by intention rather than default.