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Golden touch

Q&A > Art & Photography

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022

9 Sep 22
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Dokter’s orders

Design News > Product Design

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art.

9 Sep 22
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The anatomy of art

Design News > Product Design

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items

9 Sep 22
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‘A’ Okay

Design News > Design Thinking

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient.

9 Sep 22
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The search for South Africa’s next generation of creative sensations is back!

Design News > Product Design

Applications to participate in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 are now open!

7 Sep 22
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Less is more

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Johannesburg-based illustrator and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022, Naomi Zwane believes that portraits have power.

6 Sep 22
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Food is medicine

Design News > Craft

New York-based artist Chiizii’s ‘Nni Bu Ogwu’ archival collection examines pre- and post-colonial Igbo dietary practices.

5 Sep 22
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Play ball

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The eye-catching Taipei Performing Arts Center was designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)

5 Sep 22
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Contemporary commute

Design News > Product Design

Layer Design’s latest creation is a commuter bike designed to make personal transport a more effortless and convenient task

28 Aug 22
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Raise your glass

Design News > Art & Photography

Berlin-based design studio Studio Other Spaces unveiled their kaleidoscopic wine-tasting pavilion in early August

28 Aug 22
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Most Valuable Player

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Adidas collaborated with South African luxury fashion designer and LVMH prize winner Thebe Magugu to create a multi-use sports collection

28 Aug 22
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Ready-to-wear

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The style of South African women in the 80s and 90s is what influences this Design Indaba Emerging Creative’s fashion designs

28 Aug 22
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Dripping with hope

Design News > Product Design

A Tunisian startup has designed a machine that can create drinkable water from thin air

23 Aug 22
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Pen to paper

Q&A > African Design

Literature is one of the best ways to connect to each other and ourselves, says this Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022

23 Aug 22
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Groundwork

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Madikwe-based lodge Molori Safari collaborated with South African artists to turn their masterpieces into designer rugs

23 Aug 22
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Awarding the future

Q&A > Art & Photography

The ANNA Award announced Lerato Nkosi as their inaugural prizewinner on 10 August 2022

23 Aug 22
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Hollywood calling

Q&A > Film & Animation

This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking

16 Aug 22
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Community living

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum

16 Aug 22
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Star quality

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022

16 Aug 22
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Mr Sandman

Design News > Product Design

Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions

16 Aug 22
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Invented reality

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba alumnus Nicolás Kisic Aguirre’s latest project turns linguistic disobedience into an immersive experience

10 Aug 22
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En vogue

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Design Indaba Emerging Creative Tshepiso Lekganyane has found her passion at the intersection of fashion and art

10 Aug 22
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Alter ego

Q&A > Art & Photography

Thandiwe Msebenzi’s Radical Makazi Instagram series will be exhibited at Blank Spaces in Woodstock, Cape Town

10 Aug 22
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Metamorphosis

Design News > Art & Photography

Design Indaba alumnus Shaakira Jassat created a collection of trick glasses inspired by social distancing and caterpillars for the Nationaal Glasmuseum

10 Aug 22

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Design News • 21 Feb 20

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Measurable impact | Robert Wong explores humanity’s possible futures at Google

Design News • 4 Feb 20

Chief creative officer of Google Creative Lab, Robert Wong spoke at Design Indaba 2020. >
The Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

Design News • 3 Feb 20

Brought to you by Mercedes-Benz. >
Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News • 6 Dec 19

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.” >

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