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Reframing assumptions about ‘African art’
Next Generation
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A young illustrator who celebrates international influences rather than confined fidelity.
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15 Mar 17
Emulating female power through fashion
Next Generation
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Thebe Magugu pays homage to the important people in his life with original couture.
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8 Mar 17
Capturing Cape Town’s scent with Kaja Solgaard Dahl
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
This designer is fascinated with creativity that uplifts our sensory experiences.
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1 Mar 17
Capturing tranquility in chaos
Next Generation
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African Design
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Design Thinking
This designer draws geometric inspiration from unusual places.
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17 Feb 17
Let’s Beegin
Next Generation
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African Design
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Industrial Design
This young designer aims to improve the lives of bees with innovative ideas for upstart beekeepers.
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16 Feb 17
The intricate illustrations of Mario Nobrega
Next Generation
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This Emerging Creative discovered his artistic passion quite recently, but his lack of experience is no obstacle.
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13 Feb 17
Eclipse: Experience time in a new way
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
A clock design that reveals and hides different notions of time.
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8 Feb 17
40 rising stars join the creative constellation
Next Generation
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African Design
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Meet the 2017 Emerging Creatives, the next wave of South Africa’s buzzing design scene.
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6 Feb 17
Tinker Friday: Meet Cairo-based tinkerer Dina Amin
Next Generation
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African Design
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Film & Animation
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Product Design
Egyptian designer Dina Amin takes apart everyday objects to create stop-motion shorts for her project Tinker Friday.
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27 Jan 17
Intimate Strangers: We The People
Next Generation
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African Design
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Art & Photography
In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest.
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25 Nov 16
Biolux: Speculating on the future of indoor lighting
Next Generation
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Growing glowing architecture.
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17 Nov 16
A conversation with Jabu Nadia Newman: filmmaker, photographer and feminist
Next Generation
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Film & Animation
We chat to the woman behind the explosive webseries The Foxy Five. Jabu and her cast will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017.
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16 Nov 16
A high-tech shopping cart for the homeless
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
This tricked-out trolley aims to help secure the belongings of Canada’s nomadic homeless population.
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9 Nov 16
Meet Deltu, the moody tripod robot
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
This AI robot mimics the temperamental side in us.
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4 Nov 16
New seamless waterproof garments
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Wendy Andreu has developed a series of craft-inspired waterproof garments that are not sewn or cut into patterns.
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1 Nov 16
Fortifying long-distance connections through ambient light
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
The Lightbound project is facilitating meaningful human connection with technology.
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1 Nov 16
Yuwote Charvet: The typeface that infuses African symbols with geometry
Next Generation
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African Design
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Information Design
Kevin Karanja explores African writing systems & 3D design.
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28 Oct 16
Student thesis initiates award-winning community food project
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
Blank Plate: The culinary design curriculum helping to navigate life in a ‘food desert’.
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27 Oct 16
Student invents ambulance drone for speedy medical assistance
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
This engineering graduate is using drone tech as a force for good.
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20 Oct 16
Intimate Strangers: Izinja zempilo
Next Generation
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African Design
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Art & Photography
The third part of Intimate Strangers by South African Puleng Mogale is about brotherhood and friendship. Ride or die, friends to the end.
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18 Oct 16
The Readi box provides communication in catastrophic situations
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Should all else fail, this speaker unit helps you to keep in touch during a disaster.
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18 Oct 16
US student designs prosthetic hand-hack to aid one-handed violin player
Next Generation
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
3D printed prosthetic helps this aspiring violinist reach for her dream.
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18 Oct 16
Nigerian graduate designs gas-powered pressing iron
Next Generation
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African Design
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Product Design
The domestic creation of Ayokunle Adeniran tackles the difficulty of power outages.
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12 Oct 16
Food production in a world without meat
Next Generation
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Food Design
The rate at which we eat meat is not sustainable. A project by Central Saint Martins graduate Hanan Alkouh looks to replace pork with seaweed.
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5 Oct 16
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