South Africa | Design Indaba

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maria elena baumann illustration

Artist

An old fashioned, watercolours-on-paper illustrator >
moladi

Director

Unlock your business potential by solving a social problem. moladi creates jobs through shelter. >
WOW Creative Design Studio

Director

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” - Milton Glaser >
3600 panties focus attention on South Africa’s rape crisis

A trio of South African artists strung up 3600 donated panties in a public display against violence. >
New photobook charts photographer Yasser Booley’s Rainbow Nation

"South Africa at Liberty" documents the work of prolific South African photographer Yasser Booley. >
The miniature embroidered portraits of Danielle Clough

The artist that reproduces the faces of strangers with needle and thread. >
Kent Lingeveldt

Product Designer

Cape Town-based skate legend Kent Lingeveldt makes custom decks from a workshop in Woodstock. >
The Honey just doesn’t quit

Photographer Kgomotso Neto Tleane and art director Rendani Nemakhavhani celebrate one year as an iconic creative duo. >
How to make a city more malleable with Turner Prize winners Assemble

Paloma Strelitz and James Binning, two members of the Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble, talk about how to make a city a playground of possibilities. >
Makeba: Wanna dance?

Featuring South African artist Karabo Poppy Moletsane and the street artist R1, plus a pantsula crew from Soweto, check out this awesome music video by Jain. >
Clara Mar Hernández López on sustainable solutions for architecture

The Spanish architect talks adaptive architecture in a fast-paced world. >
Clara Mar Hernández López talks adapting architecture to better suit society’s needs

We need to look at all the possibilities, says the Spanish architect. >
Kalahari Bushmen: Photographs that celebrate culture

Photographer Chanel Sophia Oosthuizen presents a series of images that capture the profoundly peaceful life of the Kalahari bushmen. >
Interactions between the body and space with FOS

Danish artist-cum-designer Thomas Poulsen, also known as FOS, plays with the interactions between the human body and the space it occupies. >
Chat with Kent Lingeveldt

What do you want to know about Cape Town-based longboard skater and shaper Kent Lingeveldt? >
Intimate Strangers: We The People

In Part 4 of her series Intimate Strangers, Puleng Mongale captures another pair of lookalikes and sets the images to the lyrics of A Tribe Called Quest. >
Designing for the bigger picture with Van Eijk & Van der Lubbe

It’s all a matter of perception. >
PractiKal

Fashion Designer

Timeless investment pieces for generations. >
Pimp My Street Kitchen rebrands informal street food vendors

Being Frank, a collective of three South African designers, is hoping to transform three informal food vendors into well-branded, mobile food trailers. >
Lilly Loompa

Furniture Designer

Using rubbish and discarded material, Lizl Naude, the inventive designer behind Lilly Loompa, creates beautiful and usable furniture pieces. >
Fun over function with product designer Jaime Hayón

Whimsical Spanish designer Jaime Hayón explores materials and storytelling through products he creates with a childlike sense of fun. >
Jaime Hayón: Curiosity is the designer's greatest tool

Curiosity is the designer's third eye, says quirky Spanish product designer Jaime Hayón. Without it there is no creativity. >
We Shall See: A photographic journey from life to death

Photographer Ian Willms repairs the fractured relationship with his father in We Shall See. >

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