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Rolecia Janse van Rensburg's quirky approach to interior design

Design News • 4 Sep 19 • Sponsored Content

Part of the 2019 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme, Rolecia Janse van Rensburg's work is inspired by colourful moments and human interaction. >
Limbo Accra, how design is saving a city caught in limbo

Design News • 4 Sep 19 • Sponsored Content

Art platform, Limbo Accra, explores the urban structures of the city of Accra >
Ben Biayenda's illustrations challenge mainstream representations of women

Design News • 3 Sep 19 • Sponsored Content

Highly decorative and rich in colour, the Parisian illustrator's work reflects a diverse community. >
Three fashionable items designed for the differently abled

Design News • 23 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

Grace Jun and her team at the Open Style Lab are creating functional and stylish clothing that considers everyone. >
Sifiso Shange honours women with his ‘Afri Modern’ designs

Design News • 21 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

As the founder and director of Afri Modern, Sifiso Shange is making waves with his culturally influenced designs. >
5 quirky buildings that show architecture with a twist

Design News • 16 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

From a smog eating building in Poland to a cultural centre in Senegal that cools itself and more. >
The Trap is an exploration of the female form merged with nature

Design News • 9 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

Ali Aschman explores her conflicting feelings on the ways in which women have been associated with nature through the ages. >
Street artist Nardstar is painting women of colour in public spaces

Design News • 2 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

Nardstar's murals can be found in New York, Paris and her hometown, Cape Town >
Designer Siyanda Mbele on fusing functionality, aesthetics and culture

Design News • 1 Aug 19 • Sponsored Content

By creating practical, locally made art and furniture, Mbele hopes to inspire younger South African designers to learn and teach. >
Rebuilding Somalia’s ruined cities

Design News • 30 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

The civil war in Somalia has not only destroyed the lives of countless people – it also left behind many ruined cities. >
Primrose Chimhanda on nature as inspiration for her textile designs

Design News • 29 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

“Each design is inspired by a form of nature which represents an expression of the most powerful lessons I’ve learnt.” >
Biology is the new technology with Silvio Tinello’s grown objects

Design News • 29 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

“Designers are beginning to realise that they can grow a better future." >
Michelle Mlati's afrofuturist approach to spatial planning

Design News • 26 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

“It is about spatially rewriting the city to not only mitigate apartheid spatial legacies...but one that transforms with evolving black culture.” >
Combining fungi and willow to create functional furniture

Product Spotlight • 25 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

Sebastian Cox and Ninela Ivanova’s collaboration investigates the potential of mushrooms as a raw material. >
The Arctic Commons: creating a new network for future stability in the Arctic

Design News • Duration: 00:11:21 • 24 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

“This project looks to create composite maps which illuminate specific areas in the Arctic that offer opportunities for design intervention.” >
Journal Safar: A window into Beirut

Design News • 24 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

How Journal Safar, an art and design magazine, connects Beirut’s art scene to the rest of the world. >
Jimmy Wales speaks on diversity and the value of knowledge in multiple languages

Design News • 19 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

"What matters is that you have knowledge in your mother tongue." >
Designer Sanne Visser explores the potential of human hair as a raw material

Design News • 19 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

Her project The New Age of Trichology turns discarded hair into beautiful products. >
N'GOLÁ Biennial Presents Talks in collaboration with Design Indaba

Design News • 17 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

The N'GOLA Biennale, in collaboration with Design Indaba, presents a series of talks that shine a light on some of Africa's phenomenal creatives. >
Forever Emojinal

Design News • 17 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

Thulisizwe Mamba gives identity to the new way of talking with emojis on social media. >
Jaden Smith’s vegan pop-up truck is free for the homeless

Design News • 17 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

His care for people and the environment sees Smith often tackling pressing global issues. >
Nigerian artist Victor Ehikhamenor explores the responsibility of the African artist

Design News • 17 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

"I am an artist first, before anything else." >
The 600: a story of courage and sacrifice

Design News • 16 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

The film The 600 documents the bravery and self-sacrifice of 600 Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) soldiers during the Rwandan genocide. >
Tandekile Mkize on unafraid self-expression using film, photography and fashion

Design News • 15 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

Tandekile Mkize gives us an inside look into his bold and unapologetic work, which he exhibited at Design Indaba Festival 2019 >

From the Archives

Lava Lab on the millennial renaissance

Talks • Duration: 00:32:57 • 9 Sep 16

Members of Amsterdam-based studio Lava Lab, Cecilia Martin and Klasien van de Zandschulp are risk takers with a deliberately disruptive approach to work. >
Tina Ngxokolo’s fashion education

Design News • 9 Sep 16

2014 emerging creative Tina Ngxokolo educates the world about her culture through her clothing and jewellery designs. >
The enigmatic EmDrive rises through scientific ranks

Design Frontiers • 9 Sep 16

The 2000 brainchild of Roger Shawyer gains research momentum as a viable space engine. >
Keep your glasses in place with Nerdwax

Product Spotlight • 9 Sep 16

This Tennessee startup is making slippery spectacle frames a thing of the past. >

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