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Indian artist of artefacts Sneha Suresh uses visual communication to transcend text

Design News • 13 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The visual artist and printmaker will be exhibiting at the first ever antenna exhibition. Here's what she had to say about her work. >
A menstrual toolkit developed for refugee women

Design News • 13 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

This toolkit caters to every aspect of the menstrual cycle and it's reusable. >
Three ways designers are preparing for disaster

Design News • 12 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

These innovations are not only responsive but empathetic, taking a human-centred approach to solutions-based design. >
Tech innovations that make dealing with mental illness a little bit easier

Design News • 11 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

We take a look at the interesting ways design can assist with some of the symptoms associated with mental illness. >
One photographer's surrealist impression of mental illness

Design News • 10 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Katie Joy Crawford was diagnosed young. This is how she sees her anxiety and depression. >
Five things to know about Ane Crabtree, the latest Design Indaba 2019 speaker

Design News • 10 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

She’s known as the designer of all of our favourite apocalyptic TV shows like Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale. >
Art collective tells painful stories of the displaced

Design News • 8 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Foundland Collective uses research, art and design to track the traumatic stories of people affected by forced migration. >
Empathy: a quality that binds design across disciplines

Design News • 5 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Here are five more antenna 2018 speakers and a little bit about why we chose them. >
The Parkinson Smart Cane is a portable device to assist Parkinson’s disease patients

Design News • 5 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The cane is designed to help patients detect Freezing of Gait (FoG) easier and earlier. >
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society

Design News • 4 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew." >
Unpacking graphic design with Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Seymour Chwast & more

Design News • Duration: 00:03:22 • 4 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

These industry elites drop some priceless gems after illustrious careers in graphic design. >
Senegal’s taxi industry set to gain an eco-conscious option with the Ping! app

Design News • 2 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Could the natural evolution of public transport include a fleet of hybrid cars for every city? >
Play Mat connects parents to autistic kids

Design News • 2 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

The Electronic Play Mat is designed to promote interactive play between autistic children and their parents or caregivers to build communication. >
International Coffee Day: Imagine cities powered by coffee waste

Design News • 1 Oct 18 • Sponsored Content

Bio-bean is an award-winning clean technology company that recycles waste coffee grounds into advanced biofuels that could replace fossil fuels in cities. >
Five past Design Indaba speakers on how they perceive product design

Design News • Duration: 00:02:44 • 27 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

Watch Design Indaba Alumni give their take on what it means to make quality functional products. >
Award-winning artist and designer Es Devlin to design UK Pavilion for Expo 2020 Dubai

Design News • 27 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

The stage design pioneer to stars like Kanye West & Adele is about to design her first building. >
Eric Quint to bring 3M’s design-centered mission to Design Indaba 2019

Design News • 27 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

“We are part of an ecosystem, uniting purpose with partnership, that creates meaningful innovations.” >
The Human Utility: How a Twitter discussion started a movement

Design News • 26 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

What started out as a Twitter discussion soon became a way to address the water affordability and access issue in the United States. >
On the first national memorial to victims of lynching in the US

Design News • 26 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

Designed by MASS Design Group, who have offices in Boston and in Kigali, the memorial relies on sculpture, art, and design to contextualise racial terror. >
The Slave Calendar retells the story of South Africa’s slave trade

Design News • 26 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

This award-winning campaign highlights the overlooked descendants of South Africa’s slave trade. >
Mapitso Thaisi talks culture, fashion and recognising Africa's impact

Design News • 25 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

The designer showcased her Basotho inspired swimwear as part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme in 2018. >
Damon Davis explores Ghana's slave past and its impact on black America

Design News • 24 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

“...the world tells us that our identity doesn’t matter and our story doesn’t matter and our lives don’t matter.” >
On being a young creative dealing with mental health

Design News • 21 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

We spoke to past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives to unpack the way creativity and mental health co-exist in their lives. >
Indian graphic design studios reviving their heritage

Design News • 20 Sep 18 • Sponsored Content

We look at a few artists who represent their Indian Heritage through their designs. >

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Exhibition "Gare du Nord" offers a new perspective on anatomical theatre

Design News • 15 Jul 15

The oddly shaped de Waag building in Amsterdam is host to “Gare du Nord”, a collaboration that connects old and new perceptions of the human body. >
Pepe Marais shares his takeaways from judging at Cannes

Inside View • 15 Jul 15

The co-founder of creative agency Joe Public discusses the various dynamics shaping the advertising industry right now. >
Maasai women are leading the solar revolution in rural Kenya

Design News • 14 Jul 15

A new project spearheaded by Green Energy Africa sees Maasai women delivering simple solar technology to improve the lives of rural Kenyans. >
NATS create a colourful visualisation of the busy London skies

Design News • 14 Jul 15

Air traffic service NATS shares a striking visualisation of the flights over London’s airports in “London 24”. >