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"Ama-Rulah" by Roberto

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

This week we look to Lusaka, Zambia, for a head-bobbing track by Afro-R&B artist Roberto.

6 Nov 14
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Ian Murchison on wooden knives and bendy bicycle racks (trailer)

Trailers > Product Design

This Canadian industrial designer is making waves in the product design industry. At Design Indaba Conference 2014, he shares his story of success.

6 Nov 14
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Why girls should code

Inside View > Interaction Design

Code4CT is getting girls to code – while arming them with a technical toolkit to take on leadership roles.

5 Nov 14
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The tales that monuments tell

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer David Goldblatt tells us which post-Apartheid monuments he considers successful and why.

5 Nov 14
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A boot camp for your fingers

Design News > Interaction Design

Masashi Kawamura has some fun designing a series of games to get users' fingers ready for the new Intel-powered tablets.

4 Nov 14
00:04:25

Evans Wadongo: The little light that could

Video Interviews > Product Design

Kenyan engineer and businessman Evans Wadongo tells us about his award-winning MwangaBora light and creating a sustainable economy in rural areas.

4 Nov 14
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Replicating the mother's womb

Design Frontiers > Interaction Design

A new infant care system proposes radically improved incubators that transmit the mother's heartbeat, breathing and voice.

4 Nov 14
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David Tlale's second take on Vlisco

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The South African fashion designer's latest collection juxtaposes lavish Java prints with tailored structure at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa.

3 Nov 14
00:04:34

Make. Change: A DIY sleeping bag for the homeless

Video Interviews > Product Design

Meet Jo Maxwell, an ordinary citizen who prototyped a sleeping bag made of newspaper and plastic bags that has been distributed to more than 20,000 people.

3 Nov 14
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Tackling the housing problem

Focus On > Design Thinking

We round up four of the sustainable, low-cost innovations featured in The Better Living Challenge Showcase, which opened in Cape Town this week.

2 Nov 14
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Making a city desired

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The "City Desired" exhibition explores issues of city making and contemporary urbanism through the lens of Cape Town.

1 Nov 14
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The playful portraitist

African Report > Art & Photography

Patterns clash and cultures collide in Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj's striking portraits.

31 Oct 14
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Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living.

31 Oct 14
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Take Five

Take Five > Product Design

Take five minutes to catch up with designindaba.com's top five stories this week.

31 Oct 14
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"The World's Pain" by Black Vulcanite

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

Track of the Week describes the difficulties of a life dedicated to music in insightful rhymes with back-up from an immaculate jazz sample.

30 Oct 14
00:03:53

Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews > Craft

Inside the Nairobi-based workshop of Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner, a husband-and-wife team who make all their own designs by hand.

30 Oct 14
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SEA ME by Nienke Hoogvliet

Product Spotlight > Product Design

This Dutch designer trades traditional textiles for yarn made from sea algae woven into a luxurious rug.

30 Oct 14
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City hacks for #makechange

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far.

29 Oct 14
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Internet inspiration: Threat or enabler?

Hot Topic > Product Design

Lazy man's library or a window onto the world? Four South African creatives tell us whether the internet stymies or aids their creative process.

29 Oct 14
00:38:52

Lauren Beukes on fiction as an incredible kind of telepathy

Talks > African Design

South African author Lauren Beukes brings a singular storytelling experience to the Design Indaba Conference stage.

29 Oct 14
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Shining a light on workers’ safety

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away.

28 Oct 14
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Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits.

28 Oct 14
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Inside Kenya's iHub

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

The iHub is the heart centre of Kenya's tech revolution. We took its pulse on this tour inside.

28 Oct 14
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Nesting instinct

Profiling > Design Thinking

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans.

27 Oct 14

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Arbour days

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway >
Superstructures

Q&A • 21 Jun 22

Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change >
Home and away

Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment >
Dream, explore, discover

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe >

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