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Face value
Cape Town-based 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Naledi Modupi is obsessed with faces.
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EX ASTRA
This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year.
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Print first
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative is a storyteller at heart.
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Design for Human Rights
In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa.
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To the world
Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future.
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Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2023
Hot talent to watch – 20 rising stars are the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives.
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To the streets
Street artists participating in an international art festival ask ‘What if?’ in large-scale murals across Cape Town.
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In his bones
A Cape Town-based artist has created a flute made from a replica of his leg bone.
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Going solo
In SOLO, Charity Vilakazi weaves African narratives with mythology to pay homage to her heritage and the matriarchy.
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The Substitute
Using the rhino, Design Indaba alum Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg examines human beings’ relationship with endangered animals.
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Viva Africa
Malian artist Famakan Magassa has won the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize for 2023.
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Smart spoon
Spawn is the first spoon designed by artificial intelligence.
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Fruits of labour
Seeds of the Fig at Twee Jonge Gezellen farm features sculptures by 24 celebrated African artists.
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Colour as word-free language
Over two years in the making, an expansive project commissioned by Google Arts & Culture and conceived by Design Indaba plots the immense creativity of Africa.
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Art-itecture
A Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022, Noxolo Thando Masuku is navigating the symbiotic relationship between art and architecture.
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Telling stories through colour
Design Indaba partners with Google to showcase the continent's creatives through "Colours of Africa".
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Pretty ugly
Georgina Gratrix’s new exhibition converses with Irma Stern’s artworks at the iconic painter’s former home.
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Creative business
Multidisciplinary artist Nene Mahlangu is the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative programme curator.
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A woven story
2022 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Leila Walter used a life-changing experience in India as inspiration for her own weaving studio.
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Creative powerhouse
Lauren Gericke thrives on creative problem-solving and efficient design
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Live art
The convention-flouting ICA Live Art Festival is back!
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Paper towns
One architectural drawing a day for 365 days has culminated in the exhibition RSA 365
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A golden milestone
Cape Town’s beloved Irma Stern Museum celebrates its semicentennial with a line-up of exhibitions, events and talks.
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Deconstructing dreams
Akshar Maganbeharie’s portraits of pop stars and movie icons celebrate and vilify fame and pop culture
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