Designer Toby Ng used statistics to re-imagine the world as a village of 100 people and came up with the unique images to visualize each fact. For instance “If the world were a village of 100 people, 76 would have electricity while 24 percent would not.” The result is a series of very clever, interesting [...]

A few months a go I wrote a post that questioned where the art movement of Africa existed and who was leading it. I covered the landscape of mainly contemporary African designers like typographer Saki Mafundikwa, photographer Simon Njami and fashion designer/writer G. Kofi Annan. I decided to follow up on this because [...]

If you’ve entered the site through http://appfrica.net or http://appfrica.net/blog lately you’ll notice that the front page has changed significantly.
It now looks more like a syndicated publication or web magazine would. This is to help people sort through all the content that get’s published here as the site continues to grow and evolve. Take [...]

NodeSix, one of Uganda’s premier web hosting and design companies launched a new service today called DesignKingdom. DesignKingom features art, tutorials and other content by Uganda web designers and developers.
NodeSix CEO Solomon King writes:
The Design Kingdom is, to be very vague, a digital designer’s resource, created and run by Ugandans, and created for Ugandan digital [...]

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Introducing Afridex: Crunchbase for Africa
Afridex is a start-up that indexes African business data, aggregates related information, and makes that data portable so that it can be embedded on [...]

One aspect of technology I discuss frequently for my work with ImaginePublishing and blogs like Smashing Magazine is the world design community. In Asia groups like SIGG are making big names for themselves and as a result bringing a lot of attention to the Chinese ‘designing class’. But is there an equivalent in [...]

If you didn’t participate in Mozilla’s Download Day, you didn’t miss much. They broke the world record despite not allowing people to download anything until several hours into the day. There’s also been some complaints about the new browser being a bit fug.
The bigger problem, although it’s gone widely unreported for some [...]