2017 Archive

Young, fashionable and made in Dakar

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:22 • 10 Mar 17

Three young fashion designers on being creative and running fashion houses in Dakar. >
Free language education for the world

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:40 • 12 Apr 17

Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free. >
Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress

Video Interviews • 17 Apr 17

A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara. >
Telling positive African stories through photography

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:18 • 18 Apr 17

An interview with Senegalese photographer Abdoulaye Ndao. >
Classic: Minedumps and Tokoloshes

Video Interviews • 19 Apr 17

In a 2015 interview, South African comics artists Ray Whitcher and Moray Rhoda talk about bringing the genre closer to home. >
Celebrating traditional Nigerian style

Video Interviews • 20 Apr 17

Tunde Owolabi creates Afrocentric sneakers, bags and more by reviving an almost extinct African fabric. >
Rich Mnisi: Fashion forward design

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:41 • 20 Apr 17

We talk to emerging South African fashion designer Rich Mnisi about the challenges of making a name for yourself in a young, local market. >
Not for art’s sake

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:31 • 21 Apr 17

Senegalese digital artist Papi on the tools that give abstract art a tangible form >
Alexa Pollmann: Design, migration and a future form of statehood

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:12 • 21 Apr 17

Alexa Pollmann’s project Indivicracy presents a future statehood, where governments are no longer territorial and citizens are followed by a social network. >
Inside Impact Hub Accra

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:19 • 24 Apr 17

Entrepreneurship is part of Ghanaian culture. Impact Hub Accra leverages both formal and informal business opportunities. >
Making interactive furniture in Senegal

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:40 • 25 Apr 17

As part of an ongoing exploration of African design, we spoke to Thierry Giles, founder of the first UX research lab in West-Africa. >
Wacom Creatives: Illustrator Caroline Vos talks creativity, inspiration and artistic expression

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:13 • 26 Apr 17

How do digital artists bring their creativity to life? We ask some seasoned illustrators. >
Selly Raby-Kane on being a creative in Dakar

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:44 • 5 May 17

We spoke to the face of Senegalese fashion about why she wakes up at 4am and more. >
Call it what you want, says Olafur Eliasson, good design is about the consequences

Video Interviews • 10 May 17

Over the coming months we’ll be dropping some footage of the creatives who lit up Design Indaba 2017. >
Out on the town with young, South African creatives

Q&A • 16 May 17

19 minutes in total, this documentary is all about collabs in SA’s burgeoning creative scene. >
New film "Mixed Space" takes on flawed racial categories in South Africa

Q&A • 22 May 17

The colonial project mangled the way we see race, changing the way we see ourselves. >
On making theatre specifically for kids below the age of 2

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:33 • 16 Jun 17

Children at such an early age can still decide to stop paying attention, which is the harshest criticism of all >
Kenyan photographer behind renegade grannies series chats Afrofuturism

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:06 • 26 Jun 17

For Osborne Macharia, Afrofuturism is about recreating a different Africa based on fantasy, fiction and history. >
FAKA on penetrating art spaces and designing a new sound

Profiling • 30 Jun 17

Through their art, the duo is interrupting global performance and art spaces one event at a time. >
Jabu Newman and The Foxy Five on representation and visibility

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:48 • 7 Jul 17

The team behind the explosive web series talk about the importance of female-led filmmaking. >
Marko Ahtisaari explains two revolutionary projects

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:53 • 18 Jul 17

The tech guru wants to replace medicine with music and use the Bitcoin system to overhaul the way artists are paid by streaming services. >
British technology designer Chris Sheldrick on design and reinventing the postal address

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:08 • 19 Jul 17

The technology designer wants to make life easier for 4 billion people without an address. >
Lernert & Sander on crafting their own niche, creativity and their future in high-concept art

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:14 • 21 Jul 17

"We are not interested in style. We are interested in a good idea," says the Dutch duo on creativity. >
Peter Veenstra on building outspoken landscapes

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:33 • 22 Jul 17

"In the end we are happiest when the structural improvement and design [thinking] come together,” says the Dutch landscape architect. >

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