United Kingdom | Design Indaba

Visualising Human Rights with Benjamin Dix’s PositiveNegatives

The UK-based nonprofit produces comics to educate the masses. >
A photographer and a chef collaborate on this series of deconstructed dishes

“A good menu is a story, with its own narrative arc. Tension is built and released, emotions are evoked and questions are raised.” >
Synthetic skin could return touch to amputees

Researchers have combined solar power and electronic skin for the first time. >
Alexa Pollmann: Design, migration and a future form of statehood

Alexa Pollmann’s project Indivicracy presents a future statehood, where governments are no longer territorial and citizens are followed by a social network. >
This music video doubles as a PSA for domestic violence

Created for UK singer Frances’ song Grow’, the animated film addresses the isolating nature of abuse. >
Vibrant Paralympic Games ad wins Art Director’s Club of Europe award

The ‘We are the Superhumans’ campaign celebrates the disabled community. >
Wednesdays with Goddard

A personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. >
This kids clothing range literally grows alongside your child

“Slow fashion for fast growing kids.” >
Stories of feral children told through photography

This photographer sheds light on the cruelty faced by children as they are abandoned by society absolutely. >
Using technology to reimagine the documentation of human suffering

Photographer Richard Mosse’s latest work opens at the Barbican. >
The carbon cost of your cocaine

In the sixth edition of Do The Green Thing, the eco-warriors reveal the carbon footprint associated with every line of cocaine. >
Things we learnt from Kate Moross

It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole. >
Nataal

Media Company

Nataal is a global media brand celebrating contemporary African arts and culture. >
The bold illustrations of Camilla Perkins

The artist’s vivid depictions of African life are bursting with energy. >
Award-winning Burkina Faso architect Francis Kéré to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion

Our longtime friend and Design Indaba alumnus Francis Kéré has been chosen to design the 2017 Serpentine Pavilion in London. It will be his UK debut. >
What do you think the post-Brexit British passport should look like?

UK-based design publication Dezeen have launched an unofficial post-Brexit British passport design competition, and their looking for submissions from Africa. >
Special Projects create an experience that encourages connection between generations

The NEW OLD exhibition at the Design Museum focusses on how design thinking can help people live fuller, healthier and more rewarding lives as they age. >
Dancing through difficulty

Liberty Express is a dance, film and cultural exchange project for children living in poverty. >
The women calling for an end to female genital mutilation through film

From catchy and cute to raw and haunting, check out how filmmakers are speaking out. >
Arjun Harrison-Mann

Communication Designer • Social Entrepreneur

Arjun Harrison-Mann is a London-based designer, activist and advocate for dialogue. He is also the co-founder of Studio Hyte. >
NB Studio: From booze to babies to banks

We talk to Nick Finney and Alan Dye of NB Studio about their collaborative design process and some of the lessons they’ve learnt. >
Daddy G

DJ • Musician

Massive Attack’s Daddy G has been a trailblazer in the music scene since the 1980s. >
The online magazine created for women of colour by women of colour

Gal-Dem affirms a growing appetite for more intersectional and inclusive media. >
Chris Sheldrick

Technology Designer

Chris Sheldrick is the founder of what3words, an addressing app that assigns a sequence of three simple words to any location in the world. >

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