manufacturing | Design Indaba

Sipho Khwebula

Sipho Khwebula is a furniture designer and manufacturer based in Johannesburg. >

17 Dec 19
Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value

Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life. >

18 Aug 17
Reducing carbon footprint of the built world with Solidia Technologies

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Eco-friendliness can be achieved even in the granules with which we construct buildings. >

22 May 17
Nifemi Marcus-Bello: Affordable furniture for urban Nigerians

Video Interviews > African Design / Product Design

Product designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello works with local processes and artisans in Lagos to make affordable, lightweight furniture for aspiring, urban Nigerians. >

6 Dec 16
Meet Deltu, the moody tripod robot

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

This AI robot mimics the temperamental side in us. >

4 Nov 16
Craftsmen in Malawi make equipment for their hospitals

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

The Care Collection is a low-cost hospital equipment alternative manufactured by Malawian craftsmen. >

15 Oct 15
Zero-waste, ethical fashion is possible

Design News > Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Rachel Faller's clothing manufacturing company Tonlé succeeds on scraps and she says other businesses can do it too. >

14 Sep 15
Cocoon Light by Clarisse Design

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Durban-based studio Clarisse Design launches a light inspired by the silk web of a cocoon. >

4 Jun 15
Buzz lamp by The Artisan

Product Spotlight > African Design / Product Design

A rugged copper-pipe lamp from Ingrid Auret and Jovan Geldenhuys of The Artisan launches today. >

1 Jun 15
How Anatomy Design broke into the European market

Inside View > Product Design

Anatomy Design has two lights in the collection of new Danish brand Karakter. Andrea Kleinloog tells us what it took to get into the European market. >

8 May 15
Hella Jongerius: I am a design pastor

Talks > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

The Dutch designer outlines six guiding principles for designers to embrace in order to regain a holistic approach to their work. >

17 Apr 15
Beyond the New - A Search for Ideals in Design

Opinion > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

The full text of Hella Jongerius and Louise Schouwenberg's design manifesto, "Beyond the New", is released here for the first time. >

10 Apr 15
Fluid forms

Profiling > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Nigerian-born Ifeanyi Oganwu is a rising design talent who creates highly engineered, sculptural furniture. >

4 Sep 14
Family of furniture

Profiling > Product Design

Jan Douglas's collection of bespoke, low-tech furniture combines utility with a narrative element that draws on his Afrikaans heritage. >

1 Aug 13
The third industrial revolution begins

Design News > Industrial Design

The tools of manufacturing – like 3D printing – are within reach of the hands of the masses, ushering in a 3rd industrial revolution. >

8 May 12
Critical mass

Design News > Product Design

What a mass! Ten designers considered the methods, material and manufacturing of mass production. >

31 Oct 11
Droog at Milan2011

Video Interviews > Product Design / Design Thinking / Design Thinking

Renny Ramakers is committed to seeing how design can move in a different direction with more focus on models and concepts. >

11 May 11
Divided by two

Design News > Product Design

The Diviso stool works for small bums and big ones. It's great for one person but works equally well with three... >

29 Nov 10
Time for design

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Colour is an important part of the design process but an aspect that is often neglected until the very end by designers. >

15 Oct 10
Swimming success

Design News > Product Design / Information Design

A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam. >

4 Oct 10
Less can be better

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Lisbon-based design, architecture and creativity biennale, ExperimentaDesign, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. >

29 Oct 09
Craft debate: Maxim Velčovský

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Product designer, DI2008 speaker and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participant, Maxim Velčovský weighs in on the craft debate. >

1 Feb 09
Craft debate: Justin McGuirk

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Editor of Icon, a Design Indaba media partner, Justin McGuirk weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >

1 Feb 09
Design Philistines?

Opinion > Industrial Design

Does South Africa have a design culture? Not really, opines award-winning industrial designer Bernard Smith. >

1 Feb 06

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