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Your not so weekly creative moment of Zen: The Value of Design

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

Our new "not so weekly creative moment of Zen" features an animation by the UK Design Council, highlighting the importance of design thinking to small business.

17 Mar 14
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Architectural identity

Design News > Product Design

The 25s32e line is a handcrafted scrap-wood furniture collection designed by members of the Mozambican design collective Piratas do Pau.

16 Mar 14
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89plus | Kyla Philander

Q&A > Music & Sound Design

Another Africa's Missla Libsekal chats to 89plus artist Kyla Philander after her presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

16 Mar 14
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89plus | Bogosi Sekhukhuni

Q&A > Art & Photography

Another Africa's Missla Libsekal chats to 89plus artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni after his presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

15 Mar 14
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The Ukhamba lamp

Design News > African Design

Inspired by the shape of the traditional Zulu "Ukhamba" clay pot, this lamp by Ari Geva’s and Sian Eliot reinterprets it in a delicate metallic mesh.

14 Mar 14
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Meet the Makers: Atang Tshikare

FilmFestFriday > Product Design

In the first edition of Creative Cape Town's Meet the Makers series you meet Atang Tshikare, a Cape Town maker and former Design Indaba Emerging Creative.

14 Mar 14
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Heroines of fashion

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Adam&Eve launched their Autumn/Winter 2014 collection at Design Indaba Expo 2014. Here's a look at the desirable garments shown on the fashion ramp.

13 Mar 14
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Rehabilitating Africa

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Issa Diabaté has launched a project that seeks to rehabilitate a district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast to create a city that is economically and socially viable.

13 Mar 14
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Thomas Heatherwick: Designing the new Silo project

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Thomas Heatherwick unveiled his design for the conversion of the Grain Silo in the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

13 Mar 14
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Bee grade hotel

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Designer Etienne Hanekom is known for his small space design savvy but for clients of a new hotel at Babylonstoren he had to scale things down more than usual.

12 Mar 14
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Tropical summer

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Dax Martin unveiled the Tropicale Do Sul swimwear collection for 2014 at Design Indaba Expo.

12 Mar 14
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The Better Living Challenge

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Calling all designers, innovators and thinkers... Submit an idea or concept for low-income housing improvement and help make South Africa a better place.

11 Mar 14
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Glowing streets

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Masashi Kawamura and his creative lab PARTY NY recently created the music video for Australian dance-rock band Cut Copy's latest track.

11 Mar 14
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on shaping the future through design

Talks > Product Design

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses Synthetic Biology to look at a conflict between a bacterial world of the future and the antibacterial world of today.

10 Mar 14
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The Street Store

Video Interviews > Design Thinking

Founded in January 2014, The Street Store by Max Pazak and Kayli Levitan is a platform that brings dignity to how people who live on the street receive clothes.

10 Mar 14
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Urban possibilities

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A groundbreaking project is set to address issues of agricultural waste and lack of housing in Africa.

10 Mar 14
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Save a life in your sleep

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Friday, 25 April is World Malaria Day. You can help to control and eliminate malaria by supporting Goodbye Malaria through purchasing pyjamas or a bracelet.

10 Mar 14
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Plant loving

Design News > Craft

Margarete Woermann combined her love of plants and clay to create a unique set of vases for Design Indaba Expo's First Editions feature.

9 Mar 14
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Life on two wheels

Lookbook > Product Design

Bicycles were big at 2014 Design Indaba Expo. More than just trendy commuting, the bikes on show proved what real "pedal power" can do.

8 Mar 14
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Skull and bones trend

Lookbook > Product Design

Our fascination with what lies beneath the surface is revealed in the large selection of skeletal-inspired designs on the Design Indaba Expo floor.

7 Mar 14
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Designing better, together with OpenIDEO

Video Interviews > Information Design

How might we make low-income urban areas safer and more empowering for women and girls? This is a challenge currently running on OpenIDEO.

7 Mar 14
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Black and white trend

Lookbook > Product Design

The black and white Spring/Summer 2014 fashion trend has set the tone for home and décor accessories seen at the Design Indaba Expo 2014.

6 Mar 14
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Simply colourful

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Renowned South African fashion designer Hendrik Vermeulen launches Simply Vermeulen at Design Indaba Expo 2014.

6 Mar 14
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Rise and Fall of Apartheid

Design News > Art & Photography

Design Indaba Conference speaker David Goldblatt's work can be seen at the "Rise and Fall of Apartheid" exhibition on at Museum Afrika in Johannesburg.

5 Mar 14

From the Archives

Future compostable

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier >
Hold my beer

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >
A continental visionary

Q&A • 13 Jun 22

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >
Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

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