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#DITakover on Instagram: Studio Formafantasma

Lookbook • 8 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Italian design duo Studio Formafantasma took us on a strange and wondrous journey through their creative process in their takeover of our Instagram account. >
The MOTI rules out all excuses for bad habits

Product Spotlight • 8 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

The MOTI is a personable smart accessory that helps you train yourself into good habits. >
Southern Guild at Design Miami/Basel 2015

Design News • 5 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

The South African gallery Southern Guild has put together a collection that bristles with raw texture. >
Bureo turn old fishing nets into skateboards

Design News • 5 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

The team behind Bureo skateboards is working with fishing communities to upcycle discarded nets. >
Cocoon Light by Clarisse Design

Product Spotlight • 4 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Durban-based studio Clarisse Design launches a light inspired by the silk web of a cocoon. >
New York City’s pulse beats at 100 stories above the ground

Design News • Duration: 00:01:10 • 4 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Jake Barton’s design studio Local Projects launches a new interactive story-telling experience at the top of the One World Trade Centre. >
Dutch students upcycle old KLM interior into new products

Design News • 4 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Students for the Design Academy Eindhoven turn discarded material from the KLM cabins into inventive new travel items. >
Matali Crasset’s “We Trust In Wood” project supports local craftsmen in France

Product Spotlight • 4 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Matali Crasset collaborates with craftsmen in the rural French woodland of La Muese. >
Online portfolio platform Format launches documentary series

Design News • 3 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

“Inframe” is a new documentary series tracing the paths of photographers, artists, designers and illustrators around the world. Watch the first episode here. >
Tabanlıoğlu Architects recognised for Dakar Congress Centre

Design News • 3 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Istanbul-based Tabanlıoğlu Architects wins a trio of awards, including one for the Dakar Congress Centre with its distinctive latticed roof. >
A cell phone designed to be used as little as possible

Product Spotlight • 2 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

The Lightphone is a thoughtfully designed phone that allows you to be more connected to the moment. >
Skinny laMinx launches Diggi Dot collection

Product Spotlight • 2 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

South Africa's favourite fabric designer, Heather Moore of Skinny laMinx, goes all sweet and subtle in her new collection. >
Seven films about African creativity at Encounters

Design News • 2 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

These films at the annual Encounters documentary festival probe compelling issues at play in Africa’s creative landscape. >
30 Weeks supercharges entrepreneurial training for designers

Design News • 2 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

A team of New York design schools in collaboration with Google have created 30 Weeks, a hybrid between a tech incubator and design school. >
#DITakeover on Instagram: Marije Vogelzang

Lookbook • 1 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Food, a musical swing and red stockings populated our Instagram account as “eating designer” Marije Vogelzang took over. >
Alejandro Aravena’s UC Innovation Centre wins 2015 Design of the Year Award for Architecture

Design News • 1 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

London’s Design Museum selects the Chilean’s university building over 15 other acclaimed nominees. >
Design Indaba announces its new documentary on William Kentridge

Design News • 1 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Watch the teaser for "William Kentridge: The Collaborative Artist", a candid, behind-the-scenes documentary by Design Indaba. >
Buzz lamp by The Artisan

Product Spotlight • 1 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

A rugged copper-pipe lamp from Ingrid Auret and Jovan Geldenhuys of The Artisan launches today. >
Mikhael Subotzky & Patrick Waterhouse win Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2015

Design News • 29 May 15 • Sponsored Content

Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse hailed for "Ponte City" book, which portrays the culture and community of Joburg's most famous building. >
William Kentridge’s "Lulu" debuts at the Dutch National Opera

Design News • 28 May 15 • Sponsored Content

The South African artist brings a foreboding theatrical vision to Alan Berg’s famous liberetto piece. >
14 Artists speaking out against homophobia in Africa

Lookbook • 28 May 15 • Sponsored Content

Our selection from the more than 40 works by world-renowned artists that go on show in New York for the launch of Africa's Out!. >
Wangechi Mutu launches Africa's Out!

Design News • 28 May 15 • Sponsored Content

Artist Wangechi Mutu rallies the art world to speak out against Africa's persecution of sexual minorities at the launch of her new creative campaign. >
Tri-light standing lamp by Dark Horse

Product Spotlight • 28 May 15 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town studio Dark Horse launches a minimal lamp with their signature angular aesthetic. >
Rainbow window art brightens up Buitenkant Street

Lookbook • 27 May 15 • Sponsored Content

Andrzej Urbanski and Pierre Le Riche illuminate a Cape Town storefront with a tapestry of colour. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >