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Call for applications: Summer programme 2019

Creative Work • 27 Jun 19

The University of the Underground and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College invite you to apply for POST-NATION STATES, Summer School 19 in NYC. >
Crystal Birch invites us into her hat wonderland

Creative Work • 27 Jun 19

The hat designer, stylist and milliner takes us behind the scenes of how she comes up with her playful designs. >
Are you the future of South Africa’s design industry?

Design Indaba News • 20 Jun 19

The hunt for South Africa’s hottest young emerging creatives has begun. Apply now! >
Meet Hayden Williams, the fashion illustrator to Hollywood stars

Creative Work • 20 Jun 19

The 27-year-old talks to us about how he harnessed his 1,2 million Instagram followers to build a global brand. >
Mzukisi Mbane’s imprint on African fashion

Creative Work • 18 Jun 19

The Design Indaba Emerging Creative on building a global brand that pays homage to his identity and celebrates femininity. >
Sunny Dolat wants to set a new standard for African fashion

Creative Work • 14 Jun 19

A small island off the coast of West Africa is about to host a truly representative African arts and fashion festival. >
Ghanaian photographer Lawrence Agyei on the power of photography

Creative Work • 14 Jun 19

“To me, a great photograph is like poetry. It captures and expresses a situation or emotion that transcends everyday life.” >
Graphic designer Rofhiwa Mudau is using famous faces to inspire the youth

Creative Work • 14 Jun 19

“This acts as inspiration to influence a positive work flow to the career or the job of your dreams.” >
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Creative Work • 14 Jun 19

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >
Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic

Creative Work • 12 Jun 19

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >
Babusi Nyoni is making AI more accessible and relevant

Creative Work • 12 Jun 19

The Zimbabwean developer made a gqom and vosho app and also worked with UNHCR to predict the movements of displaced people. >
An alternative to disposable plastic made with potatoes

Creative Work • 12 Jun 19

“This material is made from something that comes from the earth, and later on it can end up back in the soil, while posing no risk to nature.” >
The world’s first bio-brick made from human urine

Creative Work • 11 Jun 19

Its developer wants us to rethink the way we are utilising the Earth's precious resources. >
Avoid projecting: Kot Bonkers is neither a political nor a feminist artist

Creative Work • 11 Jun 19

Kot Bonkers is a brazen illustrator who fiercely defends her right to draw for the sake of it and identify with no political groups, despite audience opinion. >
This town in Mali is built almost completely out of mud

Creative Work • 11 Jun 19

The Great Mosque of Djenne survives through the dedication of local builders who help to re-plaster it each year. >
A collective of artists are preserving Mexico's linguistic diversity

Creative Work • 10 Jun 19

“No one can love what he does not know.” >
Turning refugee bunkers into privacy pods using minimalist design

Creative Work • Duration: 00:06:05 • 7 Jun 19

“I tried to create a kind of privacy pod around the only space the individual has: their beds.” >
African architecture: Ornaments, crime & prejudice

Point of View • 7 Jun 19

Mathias Agbo, Jr. reflects on the importance of African ornamentation and the stories they convey. >
Doctor turned designer Kgahlego Kewana talks us through her unlikely path

Creative Work • 6 Jun 19

The Emerging Creative exhibited her work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019 among 49 up-and-coming South African talents. >
DJ Steloo's latest work looks to the ocean for inspiration

Creative Work • 5 Jun 19

Called Stitches From The Ocean, the Accra-based creative says he wanted to let the audience into the other side of his creative process. >
Gabrielle Goliath honours victims of sexual-based violence through sound and art

Creative Work • 5 Jun 19

The winner of this year's Standard Bank Young Artist Award talks about her latest project called This Song is For... >
Lucia Bakulumpagi-Wamala on new ways to tackle electricity shortage in Uganda

Creative Work • 4 Jun 19

The CEO of Bakulu Power takes us through their work in Buvuma, one of the only districts without electricity in the country. >
The African projects harnessing alternative energy

Creative Work • 3 Jun 19

“We must be more ambitious in harnessing the power of renewable energy to meet sustainable development and climate goals” >
Marjan van Aubel uses intelligent design to solve energy and food production problems

Creative Work • 3 Jun 19

In her work she looks at our current relationship with solar technology and how it can be used to enhance and future-proof city living. >

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