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  • Babe in arms
    Creative Work • 17 Oct 22
    Ogilvy Africa, RotoTanks and the Ministry of Health Kenya partnered on a project aimed at educating young mothers to prevent malnutrition. >
  • Dressed to the nines
    Interviews • 17 Oct 22
    SAFW award-winning menswear designer Samkelo Boyde Xaba is a Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022. >
  • Creative business
    Creative Work • 10 Oct 22
    Multidisciplinary artist Nene Mahlangu is the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative programme curator. >
  • Ringing the changes
    Creative Work • 10 Oct 22
    The International Olympic Committee revealed a new brand identity for the Olympics, the first since the games began in 1896 >
  • Into the woods
    Interviews • 10 Oct 22
    The pandemic inspired UK-based artist Oliver Chalk’s move from creating fabric installations to sculpting wood >
  • Architecture’s best
    Creative Work • 10 Oct 22
    The Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced the six winners of its 15th award cycle (2020-2022) >
  • Tapping in
    Creative Work • 3 Oct 22
    Austrian industrial design company Salz tackles water heating in emerging markets with a solar water heater. >
  • A woven story
    Interviews • 3 Oct 22
    2022 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Leila Walter used a life-changing experience in India as inspiration for her own weaving studio. >
  • On the seashore
    Creative Work • 3 Oct 22
    A collaborative design from Barcode Architects and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the Sluishuis residential building slants over the water in Amsterdam. >
  • London Calling
    Creative Work • 3 Oct 22
    The 20th edition of the London Design Festival took place across 12 design districts in the city. >
  • High Tide
    Creative Work • 26 Sep 22
    SeaPods, the latest innovation from Ocean Builders, imagines a living space that floats in the middle of the ocean. >
  • Sitting pretty
    Interviews • 26 Sep 22
    The creative director of furniture brand Bōpa Mmuso, Lindiwe Gugushe is a young creative in pursuit of design in all its forms. >
  • Memento Mori
    Creative Work • 26 Sep 22
    Artist and activist Ai Weiwei unveiled his first glass sculpture exhibition at Venice’s Basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore. >
  • On the dot
    Creative Work • 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
    Creative Work • 19 Sep 22
    Architect and computational designer Manas Bhatia used AI to imagine a utopian future with symbiotic buildings. >
  • Veni, vidi, vici
    Interviews • 18 Sep 22
    Design Indaba alumnus Morag Myerscough built a striking fort to celebrate 1900 years of Hadrian’s Wall >
  • Steel Works
    Interviews • 18 Sep 22
    Johannesburg-based interior architect Daniella Kilpatrick designs steel furniture that marries form and function >
  • The language of plants
    Creative Work • 18 Sep 22
    The 23rd Triennale Milano features a futuristic greenhouse where visitors can experience plants' reactions to their surroundings >
  • Golden touch
    Interviews • 9 Sep 22
    Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
  • Dokter’s orders
    Creative Work • 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
    Creative Work • 9 Sep 22
    New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
  • ‘A’ Okay
    Creative Work • 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!
    Creative Work • 7 Sep 22
    Applications to participate in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 are now open! >
  • Less is more
    Interviews • 6 Sep 22
    Johannesburg-based illustrator and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022, Naomi Zwane believes that portraits have power. >

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