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Stronger together
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Industrial Design
Four Design Indaba alums are mentoring members of the 2023 Young Climate Prize cohort.
6 Mar 23
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Baby steps
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Product Design
This ordinary-looking stroller is kitted out with all sorts of AI perks.
6 Mar 23
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Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2023
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Urban & Landscape Design
Hot talent to watch – 20 rising stars are the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives.
27 Feb 23
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Fossil fuels
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Product Design
An enormous hanging sculpture is made up of the amount of coal needed to power a lightbulb for a year.
27 Feb 23
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To the streets
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Design Thinking
Street artists participating in an international art festival ask ‘What if?’ in large-scale murals across Cape Town.
27 Feb 23
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Black and white
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Art & Photography
The new edition of Ernest Cole’s monumental photobook documenting the injustices of apartheid includes previously unseen material.
27 Feb 23
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Signs of life
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Design Thinking
Giant spiderweb-like installations are symbolic of the world's shared knowledge.
20 Feb 23
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In his bones
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Craft
A Cape Town-based artist has created a flute made from a replica of his leg bone.
20 Feb 23
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Life after death
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Urban & Landscape Design
An American startup is returning the burial process to the earth.
20 Feb 23
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Way of the worm
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Architecture & Interiors
Architects took inspiration from worms tunnelling underground for the design of the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre.
20 Feb 23
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Fresh face
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The National Portrait Gallery unveils a new brand identity ahead of its grand reopening.
13 Feb 23
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Big impressions
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Bjarke Ingels Group’s IQON tower in Quito, Ecuador, celebrates greenery.
13 Feb 23
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Going solo
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In SOLO, Charity Vilakazi weaves African narratives with mythology to pay homage to her heritage and the matriarchy.
13 Feb 23
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Crabwalk
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Product Design
The latest driving tech solves the problems of parallel parking.
13 Feb 23
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Glass houses
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Architecture & Interiors
A thin layer of water between two panes of glass can reduce energy costs.
6 Feb 23
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The future of ageing
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Art & Photography
The Designing For Our Future Selves exhibition explores how design can transform something everyone has in common: ageing.
6 Feb 23
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The Substitute
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Craft
Using the rhino, Design Indaba alum Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg examines human beings’ relationship with endangered animals.
6 Feb 23
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Viva Africa
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Art & Photography
Malian artist Famakan Magassa has won the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize for 2023.
6 Feb 23
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Pitch, please
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African Design
Zaha Hadid Architects created a structure that offers safe, versatile and sustainable spaces for refugees.
30 Jan 23
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Typing it up
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Music & Sound Design
Design Indaba alum Paul Sahre’s typing has been nominated for a Grammy.
30 Jan 23
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Cunning stunts
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African Design
South African artist Frank van Reenen’s latest solo exhibition explores human folly.
30 Jan 23
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Stockholm syndrome
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Product Design
The annual Swedish event showcases the latest design trends and innovations.
30 Jan 23
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Crowning glory
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Product Design
This series of ceramic and bronze sculptures pays homage to African women’s hairstyles.
20 Jan 23
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Something from nothing
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Product Design
Solar Foods’ photosynthesis-inspired process is creating a new future for food.
20 Jan 23
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The new frontiers in health
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The children and education design of the future
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Algae Window by Olafur Eliasson
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Olafur Eliasson has created an Algae Window consisting of glass spheres arranged according to the structure of diatoms.
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Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions
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Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions with his A Trifle of Colour project.
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