INTERACT / Design Indaba 2010

24 February 2010 - 26 February 2010

International All Stars from every discipline under the sun have been showing off their inventive prowess at the Design Indaba Conference since 1995. Drawing fans from creative, corporate and educational sectors alike, the conference has become the playing field for the imaginative at heart.

Championing creativity that enhances every aspect of the world around us, Design Indaba recognises graphic design, advertising, film, music, fashion design, industrial design, architecture, craft, visual art, new media, publishing, broadcasting and performing arts shoulder-to-shoulder.

As part of Design Indaba's commitment to design education, the Young Designers Simulcast offers the opportunity for students and emerging designers under the age of 25 to experience the Design Indaba Conference via a real-time broadcast of speaker presentations.

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Digital innovation with Chris Milk and Aaron Koblin at DI 2012 Masterminds behind "The Wilderness Downtown", "The Johnny Cash Project" and "3 Dreams of Black", this American pair are pioneering a new path for digital media. News Snippet
Why Designer John Bielenberg Thinks Wrong John Bielenberg thinks wrong. And he's changing the world, one design project at a time. Design Indaba chats to this mastermind about his creative progeny. Article
Creative redesigns at DI2011 From housing solutions and designing for disability to branding and fun, the 2011 Design Indaba Conference had something for everybody. News Snippet
Biomega NYC bike winner announced The ideas for how to encourage cycling in SA cities were all brilliant but there can be only winner. And that is… News Snippet
SMS answers from Karin Fong Karin Fong creates cinematic experiences that capture the imagination. Here she answers SMS questions sent to her during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Lowery Stokes Sims The creative mind behind the renowned Global Africa Project, Lowery Stokes Sims answers the SMS questions sent to her during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Fibra Bruno Temer from Brazilian sustainable design studio Fibra answers SMS questions about palm bi-products and funding innovation. News Snippet
SMS answers from Oded Ezer Few things can make typography as exciting as Oded Ezer seems to naturally make it. Here he answers SMS questions sent during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Jens Martin Skibsted In a Springbok rugby jersey Jens Martin Skibsted campaigned for more bicycles in cities at Design Indaba. Here he answers SMS questions. News Snippet
Leopard's Leap becomes the taste of the town Leopard's Leap were the proud wine suppliers of the 2011 Design Indaba Dine-Around. News Snippet

15.12

The Times

CREATIVE CLUB: Bright sparks unite

A new platform - with "parties to save the world" - encourages entrepreneurs to creatively solve tough challenges.

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28.02

d'Afrique

Verrassende Creaties

Van 25 tot en met 27 februari stond Kaapstad in het teken van de Design Indaba Expo. D'Afrique is er ook, op zoek naar nieuwe opvallende en verrassende creaties van Zuid-Afrikaanse ontwerpers.

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27.03

d'Afrique

Design Explosie

Van 25 tot en met 27 februari stond het Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) vol met Afrikaans design. Design in de meest brede zin: architectuur, interieur, accessoires, grafisch ontwerp, industrieel ontwerp, film, sieraden, nieuwe media, fashion, kunst... Het was er allemaal.

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20.05

Parool

Design uit Zuid-Afrika

Niet al het design dat in Amsterdam te koop is, is van Nederlandse makelij. Mariette de Haan vond in Afrika design dat opwindend, vrij, kleurrijk, ruig en gemixt is.

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11.05

Enjin

Design by Ubuntu

Billionaires are not as rare as they used to be. When one sits on the stairs next to you at Design Indaba (he came in late and could not find a seat) the rebel in you smirks.

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01.06

WGSN Homebuildlife

HBL Interview: Natalie du Toit of Indigi Designs

During this year's Design Indaba in South Africa, WGSN-homebuildlife came across the work of new design brand Indigi Designs. We loved their mix of traditional South African colour and pattern with characterful, contemporary forms, and we spoke to Indigi Design's founder Natalie Du Toit to find out what inspires her collections.

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19.05

MSN Business

Opening a window into the design heart of Africa

Another reason was that after seeing the Global Africa Project, Ravi Naidoo who heads up The Design Indaba in Cape Town, had invited its curators, Lowery Sims and Leslie King Hammond, to address both the prestigious Design Indaba Conference as well as make a presentation to Expo participants at the February show.

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18.05

Fast Company

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré Repurposes European Techniques for his Native Country

African-born architect Francis Kéré gets big results by mixing a little mud with a lot of heart.

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25.02

Proudly Afrikan

LADUMA NGXOKOLO’S DESIGN INDABA

As usual, the exclusive South African expo managed to collect the most inspiring leaders of contemporary art and design from around the world. One of the most memorable speakers for me was our own Laduma Ngxokolo.

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28.04

Clear Magazine

New Urban Gardening Sensation Wallflowerᵀᴹ Vertical Garden Vows to Green the Concrete Jungle

Wallflowerᵀᴹ Vertical Garden, designed by Haldane Martin, is a modular planter system designed to enable city dwellers to grow veggies and other plants on vertical walls – greening the concrete jungle!

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21.04

EgoDesign

Creative Celebration at DI2011 Expo in Cape Town

Design Indaba Expo 2011 was more than a showcase of local creativity, it was a celebration of design, culture, innovation and fun.

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25.02

Marshall Hinds

GRAPHIC LAMINATES

The annual Design Indaba is always a place of innovation and creative discussion and this year’s (2011) was no exception with a host of fascinating keynote speakers, a film festival and the Design Indaba Expo – a hotbed of activity for many a creative and retail talent.

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Lucire

In living colour

Design Indaba, the hands-on, break-out fashion and lifestyle expo, keeps the youth, energy and optimism of the “new South Africa” relevant nearly two decades into the country’s new era.

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Fast Company

New Shakespeare Stamps Put The Bard's Drama Onto Teeny Stage

Professional designers learn early to work within constraints: time, budget, materials, price. But the team at the London graphic arts firm hat-trick design has a special knack for a particularly daunting creative challenge: delivering big design on a tiny canvas.

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12.04

Silicon Cape Initiative

TECH & THE DESIGN INDABA: Taking stock of our creative enterprise potential

The recent Design Indaba highlighted the creative elements of South Africa’s entrepreneurial culture. With some tech exhibitions and a keynote address from Google’s Robert Wong, any of us familiar with California could easily have felt were at a high tech US convention.

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5.5 designers Since 2003, 5.5 designers have established an enviable reputation, being awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the Paris City Council...	Dunne&Raby Dunne&Raby – Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby – use design as a medium to stimulate debate among designers, industry and the public about...	Frank Tjepkema After studying at the Technical University of Delft for two years, Frank Tjepkema graduated in 1996 from the Design Academy Eindhoven....	Li Edelkoort Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, educator, curator and publisher based in Paris. She has fostered design’s creative talent as chairwoman...	Jonathan Shapiro Born in Cape Town in 1958, political cartoonist and satirist Jonathan Shapiro was detained by security police in 1988, shortly before...
Revital Cohen Revital Cohen recently attained a Masters in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art in London, which followed a BA in...	Michael Bierut Michael Bierut was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture,...	Alejandro Aravena Alejandro Aravena is the principal of Alejandro Aravena Architects and the executive director of Elemental, a do-tank focusing on projects...	Bouroullec Brothers The collaboration between brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec is a permanent dialogue nourished by their differing personalities and shared...	Christien Meindertsma Christien Meindertsma graduated from the Eindhoven Design Academy in 2003. Exploring products and raw materials in unusually thoughtful...
Doug Pray Doug Pray has directed a number of critically acclaimed feature-length documentary films about American subcultures, artists, and maverick...	Eames Demetrios Eames Demetrios is a filmmaker and the geographer-at-large for Kcymaerxthaere, a parallel universe largely coexistent with our linear world...	Faith47 Cape Town-based graffiti artist Faith47 searches for a tone of ink that goes directly to the heart. Her work is a fixation, merging the...	Harry Pearce Harry Pearce joined Pentagram’s London office as a partner in 2006 having co-founded and grown Lippa Pearce to become one of the UK’s most...	J Craig Venter Dr J Craig Venter (PhD) is founder, chairman and president of the J Craig Venter Institute. This not-for-profit research organisation is...
Marcelo Rosenbaum Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum sees the house as an element capable of increasing the self-esteem of the Brazilian people, as a place...	Stefan G Bucher Stefan G Bucher is the man behind 344 Design and the Daily Monster – an online drawing and storytelling experiment. His monsters have...	Tord Boontje Dutch product designer Tord Boontje first studied industrial design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven before completing his Masters at the...	Troika Troika is a multi-disciplinary art and design practice founded in 2003 by Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel, who met while...	Wooster Collective The Wooster Collective are husband-and-wife team Marc and Sara Schiller. Celebrating street art, their mission is to discover and document...

Design Indaba Conference 2010

Running from 24 to 26 February 2010, the Design Indaba Conference was a melting pot of ideas on how design can enhance the world.

Design Indaba 2010

The 2010 Design Indaba was far more than simply a Conference and Expo, generating a multi-platform creative festival throughout Cape Town.

Documenting Design at DI2010: Part 2 of 2

Documenting Design 2/2 – Gary Hustwit, Doug Pray and Eames Demetrios at Design Indaba 2010.

Documenting Design at DI2010: Part 1 of 2

Documenting Design 1/2 - Gary Hustwit, Doug Pray and Eames Demetrios at Design Indaba 2010.

Let It Out Superstar Awards 2010

Design Indaba reveals the 11 winners of our national creative team 2010!

Stefan G Bucher at DI2010

Illustrator extraordinaire, Stefan G Bucher draws monsters at the Design Indaba 2010 party.

Piyush Pandey at DI2010

Creative director of Ogilvy and Mather in Mumbai, Piyush Pandey describes his approach to cracking advertising concepts.

Design Indaba 2010 kick off

The first day of Design Indaba Conference 2010 is a wrap, and here's how it went...

Bruce Nussbaum at DI2010

Bruce Nussbaum on his love affair with the design of business, and the business of design.

The Blackheart Gang

Animators The Blackheart Gang talk about their diverse creative influences and the commercial value of animation.

Piyush Pandey

In his hilarious presentation, Piyush Pandey pays tribute to the greatest design of all – the heart – and talks about using humour and emotion.

Han Feng

From Nanjing to New York, fashion designer Han Feng talks about making it big, costume design and Asian influences in Western fashion.

Boback Firoozbakht

Boback Firoozbakht looks at how to green buildings that already exist.

Pray, Demetrios, Hustwit

Filmmakers Gary Hustwit, Doug Pray and Eames Demetrios talk about making movies that engage with design and its possibilities.

Marcelo Rosenbaum

Understanding and incorporating cultural heritage and traditions is a key feature in Marcelo Rosenbaum’s designs.

Michael Bierut

In graphic design it is essential to consider the needs of the people that are going to be living with the design, says Michael Bierut.

Alejandro Aravena

Looking to low-cost housing solutions, Alejandro Aravena propagates the building of half a good house.

Christien Meindertsma

Her thoughtful exploration of materials such as wool and flax sees Christien Meindertsma creating gorgeously ethical design.

Sonja Bäumel

Fashion designer Sonja Baumel talks about growing clothes out of the bacteria on your skin.

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INTERACT / Design Indaba 2010

Design Indaba Party sponsored by Grolsch: Part 2 of 2

Design Indaba Party sponsored by Grolsch: Part 2 of 2

Design Indaba Conference 2010

Design Indaba Conference 2010

Design Indaba Party sponsored by Grolsch: Part 1 of 2

Design Indaba Party sponsored by Grolsch: Part 1 of 2

Design Indaba speaker events 2010

Design Indaba speaker events 2010

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