Next Generation | Design Indaba

How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste

Next Generation > African Design / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >

19 Jun 19
Nigerian sculptor makes life-sized art using spoons

Next Generation > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft

Abinoro Akporode Collins says he was first challenged by his art lecturer to try unconventional materials for his sculptures. >

19 Jun 19
Turning refugee bunkers into privacy pods using minimalist design

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

“I tried to create a kind of privacy pod around the only space the individual has: their beds.” >

7 Jun 19
Congolese storyteller is breathing new life into African mythologies

Next Generation > Art & Photography / Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

Yamakasi's project, through the power of social media, helped bring together illustrators and colourists from Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo >

16 May 19
This Icelandic designer is making vodka out of food waste

Next Generation > Food Design

Björn Steinar believes it’s no use being a designer who identifies problems in theory without providing real solutions. >

9 May 19
Inclusive, human-centred furniture for the disabled

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

Inspired by her sister who has Down's Syndrome, the designer behind this furniture range uses a human-centred approach to design. >

6 May 19
The potential future of food is growing all around us

Next Generation > Food Design

Lichen, a cryptogram or type of plant, can be made in several tasty ways. So why aren’t we eating it? >

24 Apr 19
Designing a way to build bonds between strangers

Next Generation > Design Activism / Interaction Design

Social designer Manon van Hoeckel creates spaces, art pieces and experiences that confront divides between people. >

9 Apr 19
8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme. >

15 Mar 19
7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation > African Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019. >

13 Mar 19
Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind

Next Generation > Interaction Design / Product Design

We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible. >

28 Feb 19
Young designers are the future of the industry, but what are they saying?

Next Generation > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Some of these young designers, like urbanist Nicole Moyo, will take the stage at Day 1 of the 2019 Design Indaba Festival. >

27 Feb 19
Harvesting water from unexpected places

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

The way we build our cities can help us harvest water sustainably, says Design Indaba alumna Shaakira Jassat. >

18 Feb 19
Design that is curious, brave and leaves a profound impact

Next Generation > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Design Activism

These design graduates will join design veterans on stage at Design Indaba Conference 2019. >

12 Feb 19
6 of South Africa's best up-and-coming illustrators

Next Generation > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers will exhibit their work to the public at Design Indaba Festival 2019. >

17 Jan 19
The evolution of meditation tech with design graduate Freyja Sewell

Next Generation > Design Thinking

Mind Mirror is part of a mindfulness series that hopes to diversify meditation tech by visualising brain activity. >

16 Jan 19
An easy low-cost way to deliver medicine in rural areas

Next Generation > Design Activism / Industrial Design / Product Design

Industrial design student Gwen Gage wants to make medication delivery more accessible in under-developed regions. >

3 Jan 19
Oliber helps people with partial or total atrophy of the hands

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need. >

14 Dec 18
Meet the design graduate who created her own coffin

Next Generation > Design Activism / Product Design

Confronted with the mortality of not only her body but the world, Shaina Garfield found healing in the subject of death. >

26 Nov 18
0.9 grams of brass: A brass paper clip that symbolises a cow’s life

Next Generation > Design Thinking

See how graduate student Adelaide Lala Tam uses this project as a metaphor for the life cycle of a cow. >

14 Nov 18
A simple brass paper clip wins at the Future Food Design Awards

Next Generation > Food Design

0.9 Grams of Brass, a project by designer Adelaide Lala Tam, tells a complicated story through a seemingly banal object. >

29 Oct 18
The Final Five: antenna 2018 is right on our doorstep

Next Generation > Design Activism / Design Thinking

These creatives make up the list of 20-plus graduates who will present projects that change the world of tomorrow. >

16 Oct 18
Meet the young innovators at antenna’s first exhibition

Next Generation > Design Thinking

It’s an evolution of the first antenna conference which took place at Dutch Design Week last year. >

12 Oct 18
Turning sadness into power with the Tear Gun

Next Generation > Design Thinking

Taiwanese designer transforms emotional frustration into an expression of design. >

12 Oct 18

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