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Meet the A' Design Awards and Competition winners
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Craft
These are just some of the winners across nearly 100 different design categories.
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13 May 19
Warka Water is finding innovative solutions to water, energy and housing problems
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
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13 May 19
Artist Olivié Keck plays where tech meets art
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Art & Photography
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The South African artist brings the worlds of her psychedelic artworks to life through VR.
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10 May 19
Blockchain in Africa, the leapfrog continent
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African Design
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Creative Economy
Africa’s embrace of the technology could put it in a position to take a developmental detour.
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6 May 19
Sticklit is democratising literature and art
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Graphic Design & Illustration
How a reading culture can be fostered by means of public art.
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3 May 19
Pixeland is China’s pixel-inspired park
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Urban & Landscape Design
Created for the people of Mianyang, China, this multifunctional public space looks at how digital pixels can be used as functional art.
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3 May 19
Accra's Arch Xenus is redefining what it means to be a successful architectural firm
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
We met the founder and principal architect who shared more about their approach to business.
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1 May 19
What will food look like in the future, especially for the elderly
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
Himori Kimoto believes dignity and play should form a big part of the way we design our future meals.
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1 May 19
Can the architecture of a prison contribute to the rehabilitation of its inmates?
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Architecture & Interiors
"Every inmate in Norwegian prisons are going back to the society. Do you want people who are angry — or people who are rehabilitated?”
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29 Apr 19
This Angolan innovation hub is helping to transform the nation’s creative sector
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Design Activism
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We chat to some of the Fábrica de Sabão team about innovation, community upliftment and serving Africa first.
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25 Apr 19
Joy Buolamwini uses art and research to show the social implications of AI
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
The Ghanaian-American computer scientist and digital activist spoke to us during her Cape Town visit.
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25 Apr 19
Sierra Leonean artist explores identity and human expression
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Film & Animation
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Ngadi Smart, a photographer from Sierra Leone, captures the diverse ways people express their identity.
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23 Apr 19
On blockchain and art
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Art & Photography
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Creative Economy
The framework technology could make digital art less vulnerable to fraud and theft.
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19 Apr 19
Harmonia Rosales is creating new narratives around the classic art paintings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"By creating positive works of art using black women we can begin to deconstruct our power structure."
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18 Apr 19
Subverting the gendered implications of wearable tech
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
TELEXST aims to turn the gendered nature of wearable tech on its head.
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16 Apr 19
Would you put every life decision in the hands of an algorithm?
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
Max Hawkins has an interesting way of escaping the Internet's social bubbles.
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16 Apr 19
Baleka is two steps forward for African robotics
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
Developed by a team of researchers at the University of Cape Town, it’s a first for the continent.
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12 Apr 19
SA artist uses cow dung to explore questions on perception and aesthetics
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Design Thinking
Mawande Ka Zenzile explains how his reliance on intuition has made his work a lot more honest over the years.
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12 Apr 19
Urban designer Alice Cabaret on innovation in challenging places like Maboneng
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Urban & Landscape Design
"[Maboneng] has also helped to open a very needed debate, in academic and social circles, about urban transformation in complex contexts like Johannesburg."
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5 Apr 19
Neri Oxman’s installation exploring the possibilities of melanin
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Architecture & Interiors
Through digital fabrication and design computation, the pigment could sustain and enhance the planet’s endangered biodiversity.
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5 Apr 19
Sir David Adjaye designs memorial in honour of Hugh Masekela
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Masekela family, in collaboration with Design Indaba, will be unveiling a memorial pavilion during youth month.
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4 Apr 19
On building a disappearing city in the Moroccan Sahara
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
"As designers, architects know how to build cities, but our field as a whole has not yet grasped how to make them disappear."
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4 Apr 19
The whimsical illustrations of Monica Obaga
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African Design
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Art & Photography
“I would say my aesthetic has always been whimsical because all my favourite media as a child were musicals, cartoons, books, comics and fashion.”
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3 Apr 19
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.
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1 Apr 19
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