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Jabu Newman and The Foxy Five on representation and visibility
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Design Activism
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Film & Animation
The team behind the explosive web series talk about the importance of female-led filmmaking.
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7 Jul 17
FAKA on penetrating art spaces and designing a new sound
Profiling
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Art & Photography
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Music & Sound Design
Through their art, the duo is interrupting global performance and art spaces one event at a time.
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30 Jun 17
Kenyan photographer behind renegade grannies series chats Afrofuturism
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Art & Photography
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
For Osborne Macharia, Afrofuturism is about recreating a different Africa based on fantasy, fiction and history.
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26 Jun 17
On making theatre specifically for kids below the age of 2
Video Interviews
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Film & Animation
Children at such an early age can still decide to stop paying attention, which is the harshest criticism of all
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16 Jun 17
Illustrator Ellsphee creates menacing characters using vivid colours
Q&A
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In his latest series 52.177 the illustrator explores his personal inspirations.
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22 May 17
New film "Mixed Space" takes on flawed racial categories in South Africa
Q&A
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African Design
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Film & Animation
The colonial project mangled the way we see race, changing the way we see ourselves.
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22 May 17
Out on the town with young, South African creatives
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African Design
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Creative Economy
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Film & Animation
19 minutes in total, this documentary is all about collabs in SA’s burgeoning creative scene.
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16 May 17
Call it what you want, says Olafur Eliasson, good design is about the consequences
Video Interviews
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Creative Economy
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Design Activism
Over the coming months we’ll be dropping some footage of the creatives who lit up Design Indaba 2017.
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10 May 17
Selly Raby-Kane on being a creative in Dakar
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We spoke to the face of Senegalese fashion about why she wakes up at 4am and more.
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5 May 17
Wacom Creatives: Illustrator Caroline Vos talks creativity, inspiration and artistic expression
Video Interviews
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Art & Photography
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
How do digital artists bring their creativity to life? We ask some seasoned illustrators.
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26 Apr 17
Making interactive furniture in Senegal
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
As part of an ongoing exploration of African design, we spoke to Thierry Giles, founder of the first UX research lab in West-Africa.
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25 Apr 17
Inside Impact Hub Accra
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African Design
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Creative Economy
Entrepreneurship is part of Ghanaian culture. Impact Hub Accra leverages both formal and informal business opportunities.
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24 Apr 17
Alexa Pollmann: Design, migration and a future form of statehood
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Alexa Pollmann’s project Indivicracy presents a future statehood, where governments are no longer territorial and citizens are followed by a social network.
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21 Apr 17
Not for art’s sake
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Senegalese digital artist Papi on the tools that give abstract art a tangible form
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21 Apr 17
Rich Mnisi: Fashion forward design
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We talk to emerging South African fashion designer Rich Mnisi about the challenges of making a name for yourself in a young, local market.
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20 Apr 17
Celebrating traditional Nigerian style
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Tunde Owolabi creates Afrocentric sneakers, bags and more by reviving an almost extinct African fabric.
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20 Apr 17
Classic: Minedumps and Tokoloshes
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In a 2015 interview, South African comics artists Ray Whitcher and Moray Rhoda talk about bringing the genre closer to home.
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19 Apr 17
Telling positive African stories through photography
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Art & Photography
An interview with Senegalese photographer Abdoulaye Ndao.
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18 Apr 17
Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress
Video Interviews
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara.
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17 Apr 17
Free language education for the world
Video Interviews
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free.
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12 Apr 17
Young, fashionable and made in Dakar
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Three young fashion designers on being creative and running fashion houses in Dakar.
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10 Mar 17
The rhythm of weaving in Senegal
Video Interviews
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African Design
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Craft
French weaver and designer Johanna Bramble talks us through tradition and texture in her Senegalese studio.
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8 Mar 17
We chat to awe-inspiring artist Olafur Eliasson
Q&A
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
We held a live Twitter Q&A with artist Olafur Eliasson ahead of his Design Indaba Conference talk. Here are his forceful and beautiful thoughts.
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23 Feb 17
Women in design: Five questions with three interior designers from Emerging Creatives 2017
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
A QnA with three female interior designers about their designs and the industry.
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16 Feb 17
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