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Festival

  • Meet me on the surface of Jupiter
    Design Frontiers > Product Design
    Home to a range of world-class sculptures. >
    25 Feb 21
  • Design Indaba 2019 presents: Architecture driven by social responsibility
    Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors
    From Mariam Kamara to Dong Ping-Wong, the 2019 Design Indaba Conference will host a list of renowned architects. >
    5 Dec 18
  • The Urchins
    The Urchins is taking the craft of crochet to a new level
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft
    Where biomimicry, cultural weaving and lots of polyester strands meet. >
    8 Feb 18
  • Top 10
    Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | January 2018
    Take Five > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
    31 Jan 18
  • Kate Moross at Design Indaba 2017
    Things we learnt from Kate Moross
    Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration
    It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole. >
    2 Mar 17
  • Day 1 Dispatch from DI: Elemental.Sense.Home.
    Festival News > African Design / Design Thinking
    Here is our second official dispatch, as we look back on Day One of Design Indaba Festival 2017. >
    2 Mar 17
  • Festivals series by Ofoe Amegavie
    Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals
    Design News > African Design / Art & Photography
    Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >
    17 Aug 16
  • Why I've got beef with festivals like Glastonbury
    Why I've got beef with festivals like Glastonbury
    Design Frontiers > Design Activism
    In Issue 3 of Do The Green Thing, Naresh Ramchandani tells us why it's time for festivals like Glastonbury to go meat free. >
    23 Jun 16
  • The Ghetto Biennale brings local and international art to informal Haitian neighbourhoods.
    Ghetto Biennale catalogue documents the creative endeavours of Haitian artists
    Design News > Art & Photography
    The Ghetto Biennale connects Haitian artists to the rest of the world; its catalogue will give the exhibition longevity. >
    11 Jan 16
  • Pink Intruder's temporary Ekklesia pavilion built in Valencia
    Pink Intruder builds a cardboard pavilion in Valencia’s town square
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design
    The Ekklesia pavilion was assembled in the centre of a crossroads in the Spanish city of Valencia to coincide with the annual Falla festival. >
    2 Jul 15
  • Voting with your waste on a Wecup installation.
    Voting with your waste
    Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    A Dutch design collective has come up with a fun way to make festival-goers more conscious of their rubbish. >
    14 Apr 15
  • Spier Secret Festival 2013.
    Secret festival
    Lookbook > Food Design
    The 2013 Spier Secret Festival was a huge success. Here's an inside look at what the two-day celebration offered visitors. >
    13 Nov 13
  • Design Indaba FilmFest Durban
    Design Indaba FilmFest 2013 (Durban)
    The world’s best creativity and design films, all on one screen. Now heading to Durban from 28 to 30 November 2013. >
    12 Nov 13
  • Open Design
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Taking place from 21 to 31 August 2013, Open Design Cape Town is a multidisciplinary event aimed at making design and design thinking more accessible. >
    18 Aug 13
  • #FilmFestFridays
    #FilmFestFriday
    #FilmFestFriday is a regular feature on designindaba.com, delivering a dose of creative inspiration every Friday. >
    5 Jun 13
  • A Taste of Sónar at Design Indaba
    Festival News > Music & Sound Design
    Sónar, Europe’s foremost electronic music festival, will be presenting “A Taste of Sónar” in Cape Town during Design Indaba. >
    29 Feb 12
  • DI2011: Film call for entry
    Festival News >
    Step up to the silver screen... at Design Indaba Expo 2011. Submission deadline: 31 October 2010. >
    26 Aug 10
  • Brighton Festival calls on Brian Eno
    Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy
    Iconic culture figure and 1970s glam rocker, Brian Eno has been appointed as guest artistic director for next year’s Brighton Festival. >
    5 Dec 09
  • The spirit of photography
    Opinion > Art & Photography
    Back to the Khumb Mela, the Hindu festival that takes place every 12 years outside Allahabad. >
    1 May 02
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    6 clever design solutions for pressing healthcare issues
    28 Nov 19
  • Singapore flag
    Focus On
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    17 Sep 18
  • Work of Luke Rudman
    Lookbook
    A look into the work of Luke Rudman
    3 Feb 22
  • Directed by Amirah Tajdin, “Minerva’s Lillie’s” is a personal portrait of femininity, sisterhood, magic and mothers.
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    This short film is a meditation on the joys girlhood
    12 Feb 16

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