Creative Work | Design Indaba

This is what it's like to read with dyslexia

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Victor Widell’s interactive blog post lets the viewer experience what it’s like to be dyslexic. >

9 Mar 16
Embroidery and needlepoint give prisoners a new outlook

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

The Fine Cell Work initiative has contributed to the rehabilitation of the UK’s prisoners for over a decade. >

9 Mar 16
Nigerian artist uses posters to tackle issues of climate change

Design News > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Nigerian artist Fred Martins uses art to trigger an emotional response in the viewer and to convey a serious message about climate change. >

8 Mar 16
Perfect man-made waves

Design Frontiers > Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Kelly Slater's high-performance, man-made wave pool has been met with scepticism in the industry. >

8 Mar 16
Sideways driving with Goodyear’s latest concept tyre

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

International tyre company Goodyear has revealed the spherical-shaped, smart tyre of the future. >

8 Mar 16
Accra-based Swedish fashion brand creates street couture in collaboration with Ghanaian tailors

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

HI ON LIFE is a fashion brand driven by sustainable design, Ghanaian culture and a Scandinavian appreciation of form. >

8 Mar 16
Leaving design up to chance

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Origami-inspired game randomises the textile design process, encouraging the creation of new knowledge. >

8 Mar 16
Hello Tractor brings African farmers equipment on demand

Design News > African Design / Information Design

Nigerian technology startup Hello Tractor is an on-demand farming machinery service for farmers in rural Africa. >

7 Mar 16
High-tech repository for the dead

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Ruri Den is an alternative to burial sites for space-starved cities like Tokyo >

7 Mar 16
A massive eco-village with a utopian take on sustainable living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Agroecologist Amlankusum’s conceptual designs combines natural elements with controlled construction to create a 36-storey paradise. >

7 Mar 16
Global artists recreate monsters thought up by children

Design News > Art & Photography

The Monster Project facilitates art with children by reimagining their monsters. >

7 Mar 16
Wearable technology for the visually impaired

Design Frontiers > African Design / Product Design

Wearable technology from Cairo describes oncoming objects to its users >

4 Mar 16
Urban Farm Pod: A plant growing sphere in urban spaces

Design News > Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

Terreform ONE’s Plug-In-Ecology project brings vertical farming to urban spaces. >

4 Mar 16
The creative chef, Jasper Udink ten Cate releases his first cookbook

Design News > Food Design

The Creative Chef cookbook shows home cooks how to turn everyday meals into mind-blowing dining experiences. >

4 Mar 16
Shape-shifting textile cloud can change sound quality in a room

Product Spotlight > Interaction Design / Product Design

BLOOM is a knitted origami surface that can alter the ambient acoustics of public spaces. >

4 Mar 16
MFA’s #techstyle: Fashion that moves, interacts and adapts

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Interaction Design

The Museum of Fine Arts’ #techstyle exhibition takes a look at where fashion design is headed thanks to its relationship with technology. >

4 Mar 16
Saphon Energy creates new wind-harnessing technology

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

This Tunisian startup didn’t reinvent the wind turbine; instead, they created a new technology. >

3 Mar 16
Teledisko: The 60s nightlife experience in a phone booth

Design News > Design Thinking

Teledisko is a phone booth upcycled into the world’s smallest nightclub. >

3 Mar 16
Candyfloss characters in comical GIFs with a feminist touch

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Inspired by Instagram artists, Swedish art director Sofia Hydman creates GIFs depicting chubby, confident girls. >

3 Mar 16
Award-winning architecture student Alfie Hope imagines a city floating on bamboo

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Alfie Hope champions water-based urbanism with his proposal to grow floating land with bamboo. >

3 Mar 16
Six things you might not know about Airbnb and its co-founder Joe Gebbia

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Airbnb's co-founder Joe Gebbia will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. Here are some things you might not know about this peer-to-peer home-rental start up. >

3 Mar 16
A garden that stretches across Africa

Design Frontiers > African Design / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

The Great Green Wall of Africa will be the biggest man-made marvel in the world once completed. >

3 Mar 16
Zami Life: A stool for smart sitting in an age of inactivity

Design News > Product Design

The Zami smart stool promotes healthy living through innovative furniture design. >

3 Mar 16
Free community skatepark in Ethiopia

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

A non-profit organisation is building skateparks in rural areas around the globe. >

2 Mar 16

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