Articles

  • On the dot
    Design News • 26 Sep 22
    Postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art created Dotplot – a handheld device that helps monitor at-home breast checks. >
  • Living Space
    Design News • 19 Sep 22
    Architect and computational designer Manas Bhatia used AI to imagine a utopian future with symbiotic buildings. >
  • Veni, vidi, vici
    Q&A • 18 Sep 22
    Design Indaba alumnus Morag Myerscough built a striking fort to celebrate 1900 years of Hadrian’s Wall >
  • Steel Works
    Q&A • 18 Sep 22
    Johannesburg-based interior architect Daniella Kilpatrick designs steel furniture that marries form and function >
  • The language of plants
    Design News • 18 Sep 22
    The 23rd Triennale Milano features a futuristic greenhouse where visitors can experience plants' reactions to their surroundings >
  • Golden touch
    Q&A • 9 Sep 22
    Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
  • Dokter’s orders
    Design News • 9 Sep 22
    Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
  • The anatomy of art
    The anatomy of art
    Design News • 9 Sep 22
    New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
  • ‘A’ Okay
    Design News • 9 Sep 22
    Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >
  • The search for South Africa’s next generation of creative sensations is back!
    Design News • 7 Sep 22
    Applications to participate in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 are now open! >
  • Less is more
    Q&A • 6 Sep 22
    Johannesburg-based illustrator and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022, Naomi Zwane believes that portraits have power. >
  • Food is medicine
    Design News • 5 Sep 22
    New York-based artist Chiizii’s ‘Nni Bu Ogwu’ archival collection examines pre- and post-colonial Igbo dietary practices. >
  • Play ball
    Design News • 5 Sep 22
    The eye-catching Taipei Performing Arts Center was designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) >
  • Contemporary commute
    Design News • 28 Aug 22
    Layer Design’s latest creation is a commuter bike designed to make personal transport a more effortless and convenient task >
  • Raise your glass
    Design News • 28 Aug 22
    Berlin-based design studio Studio Other Spaces unveiled their kaleidoscopic wine-tasting pavilion in early August >
  • Most Valuable Player
    Design News • 28 Aug 22
    Adidas collaborated with South African luxury fashion designer and LVMH prize winner Thebe Magugu to create a multi-use sports collection >
  • Ready-to-wear
    Q&A • 28 Aug 22
    The style of South African women in the 80s and 90s is what influences this Design Indaba Emerging Creative’s fashion designs >
  • Dripping with hope
    Design News • 23 Aug 22
    A Tunisian startup has designed a machine that can create drinkable water from thin air >
  • Pen to paper
    Q&A • 23 Aug 22
    Literature is one of the best ways to connect to each other and ourselves, says this Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 >
  • Groundwork
    Design News • 23 Aug 22
    Madikwe-based lodge Molori Safari collaborated with South African artists to turn their masterpieces into designer rugs >
  • Awarding the future
    Q&A • 23 Aug 22
    The ANNA Award announced Lerato Nkosi as their inaugural prizewinner on 10 August 2022 >
  • Hollywood calling
    Q&A • 16 Aug 22
    This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking >
  • Community living
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum >
  • Star quality
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022 >
  • Mr Sandman
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions >
  • Invented reality
    Design News • 10 Aug 22
    Design Indaba alumnus Nicolás Kisic Aguirre’s latest project turns linguistic disobedience into an immersive experience >
  • En vogue
    Q&A • 10 Aug 22
    Design Indaba Emerging Creative Tshepiso Lekganyane has found her passion at the intersection of fashion and art >
  • Alter ego
    Q&A • 10 Aug 22
    Thandiwe Msebenzi’s Radical Makazi Instagram series will be exhibited at Blank Spaces in Woodstock, Cape Town >
  • Metamorphosis
    Design News • 10 Aug 22
    Design Indaba alumnus Shaakira Jassat created a collection of trick glasses inspired by social distancing and caterpillars for the Nationaal Glasmuseum >
  • A march through time
    Design News • 1 Aug 22
    London design studio and Design Indaba alumnus NB Studio created stamps celebrating 50 years since the first Pride march in London >

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