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Sindiso Khumalo

  • Photographs: Jessie Zinn.
    Meet the makers
    Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Design Indaba Emerging Creative Jessie Zinn highlights South African fashion icons in a new video series. >
    22 Jan 24
  • Jomo Tariku on changing perceptions around what constitutes modern furniture
    Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy
    “The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer. >
    20 May 19
  • IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words
    Talks > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design
    At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised. >
    2 Apr 19
  • These designers will present the IKEA x Design Indaba ÖVERALLT collection on the Conference stage
    Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy
    Two years after the project started, the designers return to the Design Indaba stage to showcase their final project. >
    13 Feb 19
  • IKEA launches ÖVERALLT collection during Design Indaba Festival
    Festival News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Industrial Design / Product Design
    The limited-edition ÖVERALLT collection was launched on 27th February 2019 at the place where it all started – Design Indaba Festival. >
    1 Feb 19
  • Kassena Town Cabinets
    MBOISA: West African patterning meets sculptural furniture design
    Design News > African Design / Product Design
    Dokter and Misses’ Kassena Town Cabinets echo the traditional architecture and striking graphic artwork of the Kassena people. >
    11 Jan 16
  • Sindiso Khumalo
    Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry in her textiles
    Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
    4 Aug 15
  • Sindiso Khumalo
    Trailer: Sindiso Khumalo on the love affair with her ancestry through her textiles
    Trailers > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    The fashion designer draws from her Zulu inheritance in the design of her contemporary fashion collections. >
    4 Aug 15
  • A feast for all the senses - Design Indaba's Speaker lunch at Babylonstoren. Images curtesy of Adel Ferreira.
    A feast for all the senses
    Lookbook > Art & Photography / Food Design
    Maranda Engelbrecht deconstructs a special meal at Babylonstoren for a fuller, more sensual experience. >
    12 Mar 15
  • Sindiso Khumalo at Design Indaba Conference 2015.
    Sindiso Khumalo: We’re embracing our heritage and subverting it
    Video Interviews > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    This fashion designer’s latest collection marks a change for her but she thinks we’re only starting to see Africa’s full creative potential. >
    11 Mar 15
  • Sindiso Khumalo launches her latest fashion collection at Design Indaba Conference 2015.
    The memory of a print
    Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Fashion and textile designer Sindiso Khumalo recently launched a fashion collection very different from anything she has done before. >
    3 Mar 15
  • Studio Formafantasma.
    Advice for young designers (part one)
    Inside View > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design / Product Design
    Wise words for aspiring creatives from some of the most globally acclaimed design professionals. >
    2 Mar 15
  • The pattern collector
    Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Africa's faded modernist buildings are a source of graphic inspiration for fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo, who will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >
    28 Jan 15
  • Focus on: All Angles
    All angles
    Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    This year geometric designs reached new heights as these five projects illustrate. We'll be looking to see whether this trend continues in 2015. >
    21 Dec 14
  • Selly Raby Kane's 2014 Fall/Winter collection.
    The clothes that maketh the continent
    Focus On > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    A new generation of African fashion designers is proving that the continent’s couture is about more than just bright colours, tribal patterns and leopard print. >
    14 Dec 14
  • Take Five
    Take Five
    Take Five > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    This week readers loved our Hot Topic feature canvassing designers' thought on whether creativity can save the world. >
    13 Dec 14
  • Sindiso Khumalo.
    Sindiso Khumalo: I’m a textile nerd
    Video Interviews > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    This South African-born fashion designer tells us how she draws on her Zulu and Ndebele heritage for her bespoke collections. >
    2 Dec 14
  • Spring/Summer 2013 collection by Sindiso Khumalo
    Turning to fashion
    Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / African Design
    Architect Sindiso Khumalo's debut Spring/Summer 2013 fashion collection reveals the beauty in Zulu traditions. >
    23 Apr 14
  • Sindiso Khumalo
    Sindiso Khumalo is a sustainable textile designer based in Cape Town. >
    22 Apr 14
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