Profiling | Design Indaba

FAKA on penetrating art spaces and designing a new sound

Profiling > Art & Photography / Music & Sound Design

Through their art, the duo is interrupting global performance and art spaces one event at a time. >

30 Jun 17
South African jewellery designer Stacy Beukes on the value of community

Profiling > Fashion & Jewellery Design

We talk to the South African jewellery designer behind the brand A Ring To It. >

16 Dec 16
Step into Erik Spiekermann's world

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration

Find out what makes prolific typographer and graphic designer Erik Spiekermann tick as Freunde von Freunden take us into his home and studio in Berlin. >

8 Sep 15
Filmmaker and artist Ralph Ziman helps unmask some of Africa’s truths

Profiling > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

The South African artist discusses film and art as mediums of creative expression. >

7 Aug 15
To be a South African storyteller, here and now

Profiling > African Design / Film & Animation

In the third episode of the Future Lab Africa podcast series, Jepchumba speaks to up-and-coming filmmaker Lebogang Rasethaba about his storytelling aesthetic. >

29 Jun 15
You are how you eat

Profiling > Design Thinking / Food Design / Interaction Design

Emilie Baltz designs tools and eating experiences that surprise and delight – and make you rethink your relationship to food. >

24 Mar 15
Dominic Wilcox on playful creativity – Cool Hunting

Profiling > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Product Design

Cajsa Carlson catches up with the English artist at this year's Design Indaba for an inside look at his open-minded approach. >

23 Mar 15
Shapes in clay

Profiling > Craft / Product Design

Ceramicist Chuma Maweni creates contemporary black-and-white striped conical pots at Art In The Forest, a ceramics centre where young artists are mentored. >

18 Mar 15
Ng’endo Mukii weaves history and heritage into textured animations – Designboom

Profiling > Film & Animation

Designboom profiles Kenyan artist and animator Ng'endo Mukii, who interweaves the history and heritage of African identities into films >

12 Mar 15
Crossing continents and disciplines

Profiling > African Design / Art & Photography / Industrial Design

Don't try to pigeonhole Kossi Aguessy. He was born in Togo, grew up in the US and is now based in London. Oh, and he is both an artist and industrial designer. >

9 Mar 15
A special relationship

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lauded New York City-based graphic designer Michael Bierut returns to emcee the Design Indaba Conference for the sixth time. This year, he’ll present as well. >

17 Feb 15
Keep on truckin'

Profiling > Food Design

The "godfather" of the Californian food truck movement is coming to Cape Town. It’s a good thing we’ll have 14 food trucks on tap. >

5 Feb 15
Whatever happened to Watterson?

Profiling > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

Notoriously media-shy cartoonist Bill Watterson features in the comic-strip documentary film “Stripped”, to be screened at Design Indaba FilmFest 2015. >

2 Feb 15
On the soles of her feet

Profiling > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Bethlehem Alemu is not your standard shoe saleswoman. Her fair-trade brand soleRebels is merging Ethiopian artisanal heritage with modern design sensibilities. >

20 Jan 15
A travel guide to social design

Profiling > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Dutch author Anne van der Zwaag hopes her new book will help businesses and governments see the power of design to address key challenges facing the world. >

11 Nov 14
Nesting instinct

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Thinking

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans. >

27 Oct 14
Africa calls, London answers

Profiling > African Design / Craft / Product Design

British design consultant Kathy Shenoy launches Africa Calling, a platform to bridge the divide between makers from the UK and Africa. >

22 Sep 14
Fluid forms

Profiling > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Nigerian-born Ifeanyi Oganwu is a rising design talent who creates highly engineered, sculptural furniture. >

4 Sep 14
Nomad's Land

Profiling > Art & Photography / Product Design

Steve Kotze talks art and Afrikaner adaptability with artist Stefan Naude aka ST(E)AK. >

2 Aug 14
The quiet ambassador of African design

Profiling > African Design / Design Activism / Industrial Design / Product Design

Meet Mugendi M'Rithaa, the Kenyan educator and activist who has been working behind the scenes to promote the power of design in Africa. >

22 Jul 14
Fashion takes flight

Profiling > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Two New Yorkers started an ethical fashion line made in Ghana – and found more opportunity to do good on the ground. >

17 Jul 14
Brothers from another time

Profiling > Product Design

At face value Laurie and Gary Holmes come off like a pair of ’60s California throwbacks. But take a closer look and you might see the future of surfing. >

13 Jul 14
Light-bulb moment

Profiling > Product Design

The love for a warm nostalgic glow from the past inspired Hoi P'loy to import vintage lighting accessories to South Africa. >

18 Jun 14
Clementina van der Walt

Profiling > Craft

Step into the studio of Clementina van der Walt – a ceramicist in search of meaning through making. >

12 Jun 14

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