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Fairphone by Bas van Abel.

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Bas van Abel designed a smartphone that focusses on improving social and environmental conditions.

Faith47. Will You Stay With Me? Until the Very End?.

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Faith47's latest mural provokes an emotional response and references the Gaeta Cemetery in Italy.

Triggerfish: Adventures in Zambezia (2012)

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Triggerfish: Seven ordinary things that can lead to one extraordinary result

Triggerfish CEO Stuart Forrest shares seven business tips they taught you in kindergarten.

Paula Scher at Design Indaba 2013.

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The Design Experience

Cape Town’s Design Indaba shows that the scope for designers to make a difference to society is wider than ever.

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Product spotlight: Chairman by Nawaaz Saldulker

In the first of a new series looking at bespoke South African designs that demonstrate a unique craftsmanship, we feature Nawaaz Saldulker's Chairman.

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Cape Town-based street artist Faith47 searches for a tone of ink that goes directly to the heart.

Design Indaba Music Circuit 2013.

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Music Circuit 2013 highlights

Design Indaba Music Circuit 2013 was a true showcase of the power of creativity in South African music. Here is a roundup of the event.

Abbot Miller. Pentagram. A Beautiful Way to Go.

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A beautiful way

Abbott Miller commemorates the 175th anniversary of Green-Wood Cemetery with a life-like exhibition symbolising the park's paths, roads and burial sites.

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Creative Economy

Employing the power of creativity, in all its facets, to boost the economy. It’s a new way of thinking and doing that prioritises sustainability and...

Design Indaba 2014 Poster Design Competition

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Design Indaba 2014 Poster Design Competition

We are challenging all design students to display their creative genius by taking a shot at designing our event posters!

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Featured Showcase: Top 10 April 2013

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Words to be looked at, images to be read

Take a look at some of Wael Morcos's work who will be speaking in the Pecha Kucha slot at Design Indaba Conference 2013.

Satyendra Pakhalé. Add_On radiator - image by Tom Vack.

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Through the lens of Satyendra Pakhalé

Imaginative, insightful and culturally diverse, designindaba.com will be publishing a monthly contribution by award-winning designer Satyendra Pakhalé.

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Design Indaba at What Design Can Do

Published 09 May 2013

Design Indaba is proud to be media partners to the What Design Can Do Conference in Amsterdam.

Press Coverage

Paula Scher at Design Indaba 2013.

The Design Experience

Published 23 May 2013

Cape Town’s Design Indaba shows that the scope for designers to make a difference to society is wider than ever.