Creative Work | Design Indaba

Ilze Wolff on creating an activist and public culture around architecture

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

In this architectural practice collaboration with artists is just as important as working with other architects and engineers. >

20 Mar 19
Tumelo Lerata wins most promising award in international housing competition

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Industrial Design

The "r.i.s.e in the city" design competition is aimed at bridging the gap between entrepreneurship and architecture. >

19 Mar 19
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >

18 Mar 19
8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme. >

15 Mar 19
Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure. >

14 Mar 19
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >

14 Mar 19
7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation > African Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019. >

13 Mar 19
The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck. >

13 Mar 19
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >

13 Mar 19
Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile. >

12 Mar 19
Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change

Design Frontiers > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people." >

12 Mar 19
Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere. >

11 Mar 19
Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product. >

6 Mar 19
Neo African artist Dennis Osadebe’s new work is begging us to Stand for Something

Design Frontiers > African Design / Art & Photography

“I ask myself again and again. What is African art? Who gets to define it? What are its limits? And where is it going?” >

5 Mar 19
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >

4 Mar 19
#MeToo: Global Grad Ellie Frymire makes sense of the iconic movement

Design News > Design Thinking

We know that the movement was started to call out rampant abuse of women around the world, but Frymire delved into what people were really saying with #MeToo >

4 Mar 19
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News > African Design / Product Design

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty. >

1 Mar 19
Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

Design Frontiers > Film & Animation

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet." >

1 Mar 19
Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind

Next Generation > Interaction Design / Product Design

We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible. >

28 Feb 19
Global Graduate Shaina Garfield on the limits of empathetic design

Design News > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design

Speaking on Thursday at Design Indaba Conference 2019, Shaina Garfield penned this insightful piece on design for the disabled. >

28 Feb 19
Keenan Wyrobek presents his revolutionary drone system at Design Indaba Festival 2019

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy

The world's only drone delivery service gets life-saving medical supplies and blood to the most remote and difficult to reach places on Earth. >

27 Feb 19
Ukubutha: A township hub powered by smart architecture and green tech

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

A sneak speak at the work of Global Graduate Nicole Nomsa Moyo who presented at Day 1 of Design Indaba Conference 2019, >

27 Feb 19
A vote for ‘beauty’: What does it mean to you?

Design News > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy

As Design Indaba 2019 kicks off, voting for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is still open! Make your choice now. >

27 Feb 19
Typeface inspired by the movement of dance

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Typographers María Ramos and Noel Pretorius together with dancer Andile Vellem have launched Movement, a new font inspired by the art of dance. >

27 Feb 19

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