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Gordon Reid on embracing the weird in design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The graphic designer talks us through his design career and starting his own agency, Middleboop.
24 May 19
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More than a catcall
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Interaction Design
Sophie Sandberg tackles everyday harassment by taking it back to the streets.
24 May 19
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Funfere Koroye on product design for the West African consumer
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Industrial Design
Nigerian product designer has designed a range of products that take into account the uniqueness of a West African consumer.
23 May 19
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Freyja Sewell is designing cognitive training technology for the future
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Product Design
The Royal College of Art graduate’s work focuses on meditation and developing technology for the mind.
23 May 19
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The industrialisation of the natural world
Design News
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Design Thinking
Speculations on the future of biodiversity after the sixth mass extinction.
22 May 19
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Kutti Collective is taking on the lack of Desi representation in the art world
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
“It’s about creating and dialoguing about things that affect us in a way that isn't Orientalist, or beholden to the erasures and violence..."
22 May 19
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Adebayo Oke-Lawal is rethinking masculinity in African culture
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality.
22 May 19
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Blair Imani is writing Herstory
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Information Design
Imani’s book is shining a light both on modern feminists and on marginalised people who are making a difference in the world.
21 May 19
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Kiko Farkas on nature's role in his work as a graphic designer
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Graphic Design & Illustration
He took the Design Indaba audience through his most famous project and showcased how nature inspired it.
21 May 19
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Jomo Tariku on changing perceptions around what constitutes modern furniture
Design Frontiers
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Creative Economy
“The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer.
20 May 19
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Steph Foster focuses his lens on the American prison system
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Information Design
Interdisciplinary artist Steph Foster is using his art to investigate and address what's wrong with the United States criminal justice system.
20 May 19
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Artist Nuria Mora on Spain’s biggest inclusive art event of its kind
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
Along with 14 other artists, Nuria Mora is helping to rebuild and inspire art inclusivity in Spain’s forgotten region of La Mancha.
20 May 19
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Faith XLVII on the power of collaboration
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Design Activism
"Entering into collaborations with key people in my life has helped me rediscover my root inspiration."
17 May 19
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Bug burgers and micro-algae buns: the cookbook of the future
Design News
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Product Design
SPACE10 has been cooking up a storm in their Test Kitchen to bring you an unorthodox assortment of meals from the future.
17 May 19
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Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth after death
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Product Design
She shared how her project Leaves proposes a sustainable coffin that will help the body decompose naturally.
16 May 19
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Congolese storyteller is breathing new life into African mythologies
Next Generation
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Yamakasi's project, through the power of social media, helped bring together illustrators and colourists from Nigeria, Cameroon and the Republic of Congo
16 May 19
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Colors of the Earth: Ghana's incredible, rammed earth walls
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Architecture & Interiors
Ghanaian entrepreneur Joelle Eyeson is experimenting with the sustainable technique that could aid her country's housing problem.
16 May 19
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Exploring Shantell Martin’s unique interactive illustrations
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The London-born, New York-based artist is creating larger than life artworks that comment on intersectionality, identity and play.
15 May 19
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Mirjam de Bruijn's work explores the border between function and aesthetics
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Product Design
She speaks about Twenty, a range of waterless dissolvable capsules that take away the need to use 80 - 95% water to make these products.
15 May 19
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Tshepo Mokholo on the transformational power of architecture to inspire
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Design Activism
The African Design Centre graduate on how growing up in an unusual house in Soweto would later inspire his career in design.
14 May 19
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Building a more sustainable future
Design Frontiers
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Urban & Landscape Design
The architectural and engineering industries need to come up with new, gentler ways to construct future projects.
14 May 19
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Carolien Niebling is creating the sausage of the future
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Product Design
Product designer Carolien Niebling believes that people can make a difference if they just take a moment to look at things a little differently.
14 May 19
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Meet the A' Design Awards and Competition winners
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Craft
These are just some of the winners across nearly 100 different design categories.
13 May 19
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Warka Water is finding innovative solutions to water, energy and housing problems
Design Frontiers
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Architecture & Interiors
The structure has been shortlisted for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture.
13 May 19
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