2021 Archive

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Andile Dyalvane Mounts 2nd Ceramics Solo Show in New York

Design News • 17 May 21

Ceramicist Andile Dyalvane’s iThongo communes with the ancestors via symbolic seating. >
Art Beyond Boundaries

Design News • 13 May 21

These Young Artists are Drawing on Myriad Tools to Make Magic. . >
Graphic Content Ahead!

Design News • 13 May 21

Designing for Life. >
A Symbiotic Work in Partnership with Biology, #DI Speaker Olafur Eliasson’s Life lets Nature Take its Course

Design News • 13 May 21

Showing at Fondation Beyeler, Olafur Eliasson’s new installation dissolves the boundaries between nature and art. >
Communicating with the Ancestors: Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative and MBOISA Nominee Thebe Magugu Draws on African Spirituality for his Alchemy AW21 Collection

Design Frontiers • 7 May 21

Acclaimed fashion designer Thebe Magugu’s AW21 garments, campaign and short film explore African spirituality and global textile traditions. >
We Interview Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Mpho Vackier in TheUrbanative’s New Homecoming Collection

Q&A • 7 May 21

A collaborative collection birthed during lockdown brings together designers from different disciplines to celebrate home, and the continent. >
With Afrowaste, Nigerian Designer Dimeji Ilori turns Discarded Clothes into One-Of-A-Kind Treasures

Design News • 7 May 21

Afrowaste is a fashion mash-up that blends old and new, Western and African. >
The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library by Sir David Adjaye will form a Nexus of African Discourse and Excellence in Johannesburg

Design News • 7 May 21

DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye’s new design reveals a space dedicated to the African Renaissance. >
Waterlight Converts Water into Energy with its Innovative Seawater-Powered Lamp

Design News • 3 May 21

An innovation designed to serve communities with no access to electricity, WaterLight makes use of an available natural resource. >
A Home 3D-Printed Out of Earth? Mario Cucinella Architects Teams Up with WASP to Create TECLA

Design News • 3 May 21

Ancient earth and 21st century technology come together as housing for the future. >
Can Face Masks Be Fashionable? Should They Be? Kat Van Duinen Contemplates These Pandemic-Born Questions

Design News • 3 May 21

Cape Town-based fashion designer Kat van Duinen tailors a sartorial response to the pandemic. >
Cabin Fever: Moriko and Living in Nature Inspire with Myriad Ways to Interpret Low-Key Country Living

Design News • 3 May 21

Moriko Cabins are prompted by the need to connect with nature. >
Inspiring Spaces

Design News • 30 Apr 21

The sweet spot where form meets function. >
Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Homeware Collection Merges African and English Customs

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Design Indaba Speaker Yinka Ilori’s bright and colourful new homeware incorporates his signature motifs. >
Sweden’s Onmateria Imagines a Future for the Hotel Industry hat’s Lighter on the Planet

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Green Box – an innovative biodegradable system of hotel amenities. >
The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future

Design News • 26 Apr 21

SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities. >
Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration. >
The Pen is Mighty

Design News • 23 Apr 21

Past meets present in a powerful new era of illustration. >
Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire

Design News • 21 Apr 21

Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation. >
Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture

Design News • 21 Apr 21

Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites. >
Creative Campus: DI Speaker Annabelle Selldorf’s Role in the New LUMA Arles

Design News • 20 Apr 21

Selldorf Architects transforms railway structures into exhibition and performance spaces. >
Skinny LaMinx Chats to us about a New Collaboration Inspired by the Sea Point Promenade

Q&A • 20 Apr 21

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Heather Moore has based her new Skinny LaMinx range on one of Cape Town’s most celebrated seaboard spaces. >
Vincent Callebaut’s Pollinator Park Brings People into Harmony with Nature’s Pollinators

Design News • 20 Apr 21

This futuristic VR experience by the world-renowned ‘archiobiotect’ has a special focus on pollinators. >
A Future Vision

Design News • 16 Apr 21

These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons. >

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