May 2019 Archive

Building a more sustainable future

Design Frontiers • 14 May 19

The architectural and engineering industries need to come up with new, gentler ways to construct future projects. >
Carolien Niebling is creating the sausage of the future

Talks • 14 May 19

Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently. >
Tshepo Mokholo on the transformational power of architecture to inspire

Talks • 14 May 19

The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design. >
Exploring Shantell Martin’s unique interactive illustrations

Design News • 15 May 19

The London-born, New York-based artist is creating larger than life artworks that comment on intersectionality, identity and play. >
Mirjam de Bruijn's work explores the border between function and aesthetics

Talks • 15 May 19

She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products. >
Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death

Talks • 16 May 19

She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally. >
Congolese storyteller is breathing new life into African mythologies

Next Generation • 16 May 19

Yamakasi's project, through the power of social media, helped bring together illustrators and colourists from Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo >
Colors of the Earth: Ghana's incredible, rammed earth walls

Design Frontiers • 16 May 19

Ghanaian entrepreneur Joelle Eyeson is experimenting with the sustainable technique that could aid her country's housing problem. >
Faith XLVII on the power of collaboration

Talks • 17 May 19

"Entering into collaborations with key people in my life has helped me rediscover my root inspiration." >
Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future

Design News • 17 May 19

SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future. >
Artist Nuria Mora on Spain’s biggest inclusive art event of its kind

Design News • 20 May 19

Along with 14 other artists, Nuria Mora is helping to rebuild and inspire art inclusivity in Spain’s forgotten region of La Mancha. >
Steph Foster focuses his lens on the American prison system

Talks • 20 May 19

Interdisciplinary artist Steph Foster is using his art to investigate and address what's wrong with the United States criminal justice system. >
Jomo Tariku on changing perceptions around what constitutes modern furniture

Design Frontiers • 20 May 19

“The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer. >
Blair Imani is writing Herstory

Design Frontiers • 21 May 19

Imani’s book is shining a light both on modern feminists and on marginalised people who are making a difference in the world. >
Kiko Farkas on nature's role in his work as a graphic designer

Talks • 21 May 19

He took the Design Indaba audience through his most famous project and showcased how nature inspired it. >
Kutti Collective is taking on the lack of Desi representation in the art world

Design Frontiers • 22 May 19

“It’s about creating and dialoguing about things that affect us in a way that isn't Orientalist, or beholden to the erasures and violence..." >
Adebayo Oke-Lawal is rethinking masculinity in African culture

Talks • 22 May 19

The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality. >
The industrialisation of the natural world

Design News • 22 May 19

Speculations on the future of biodiversity after the sixth mass extinction. >
Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future

Talks • 23 May 19

The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind. >
Funfere Koroye on product design for the West African consumer

Design News • 23 May 19

Nigerian product designer has designed a range of products that take into account the uniqueness of a West African consumer. >
More than a catcall

Design Frontiers • 24 May 19

Sophie Sandberg tackles everyday harassment by taking it back to the streets. >
Gordon Reid on embracing the weird in design

Talks • 24 May 19

The graphic designer talks us through his design career and starting his own agency, Middleboop. >
Kenyan jeweller uses natural minerals to tell her story

Design Frontiers • 27 May 19

Ami Doshi Shah’s sculptural jewellery pieces tell the story both of Kenya’s intricate past and the country's captivating natural beauty. >
Roy Allela invents tech that translates sign language into audio

Design Frontiers • 27 May 19

The Kenyan inventor was inspired by his deaf niece to create Sign-IO, a glove that interprets sign language into speech. >

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