Creative Work | Design Indaba

Mbongeni Fongoqa uses graphic design to uplift township businesses

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Activism

Beauty and function merge to create a new kind of public space. >

27 Mar 17
Would you drink beer made from sewage water?

Design News > Design Activism / Food Design

A California brewing company has created a ‘delicious’ beer using recycled wastewater. >

27 Mar 17
The Thermotrap Project

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

This start-up initiative aims to uplift the living conditions of township residents. >

24 Mar 17
This kids clothing range literally grows alongside your child

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Slow fashion for fast growing kids.” >

24 Mar 17
Meet Mr Trash Wheel, a clever water pollution solution

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

A self-sustaining trash collector that cleanses urban waters using renewable energy. >

24 Mar 17
This queer visibility comic already has 800 backers

Design News > Creative Economy / Film & Animation

Tee Franklin’s Bingo Love is a new take on queer relationships, heartbreak and growth. >

24 Mar 17
Shape: Design is everywhere

Design News > Design Thinking

A film about design. If for one day you had the power to make your world work better, what would you change? >

24 Mar 17
Dear White America

Design News > African Design / Information Design

US-based artist Inyegumena Nosegbe’s newspaper project is a poignant look at police brutality. >

23 Mar 17
Refugee chefs share the taste of home

Design News > Food Design

Eat Offbeat: An unprecedented cookbook featuring recipes and stories by refugees now working as chefs in New York City. >

23 Mar 17
The Dark Room

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Expat photographer illustrates the nature of depression in surreal gloom. >

23 Mar 17
A delicate portrayal of brutality

Lookbook > Art & Photography

This artist depicts the subject of sex inequality in a stylised and all-encompassing way. >

23 Mar 17
Giving back with ethical fashion

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Eco-friendly and ethically made, Allmade pushes the boundaries of the ordinary t-shirt. >

23 Mar 17
Plan Bee

Next Generation > Design Activism / Industrial Design

This could be the pollination process of tomorrow. >

22 Mar 17
Waves for Water

Design News > Design Activism

This new documentary, released on World Water Day, follows former pro surfer Jon Rose and his mission to help bring clean drinking water to those in need. >

22 Mar 17
The font of life

Design News > Design Activism

Download and donate to the millions living without water. >

22 Mar 17
MOLD: A focus on the future of food

Design Frontiers > Food Design

This new independent publication focusses on the future of food and how design can help feed a hungry planet. >

22 Mar 17
Greeting cards for people of colour

Design News > Art & Photography

US-based creative Tara James creates greeting cards as a reflection of cultural tradition. >

22 Mar 17
Hooded: Subversion through photography

Design News > Art & Photography / Film & Animation

Myles Loftin confronts the stereotype of the hooded black man in a new multimedia project. >

21 Mar 17
Why wastewater?

Design News > Design Activism

World Water Day 2017 will look at the way we manage the precious resource during every part of the water cycle. >

20 Mar 17
Buddibox: A community-driven courier network in South Africa

Design News > African Design / Design Activism

This organisation tackles local unemployment by facilitating small-scale courier services. >

20 Mar 17
Arch for Arch celebrates Archbishop Tutu and the freedom of South Africa

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

It will be launched on 7 October, 2017 to coincide with The Arch's 86th birthday. >

20 Mar 17
The physicist who folds

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Physicist Robert lang left NASA to practice origami. Great Big Story tells us why. >

17 Mar 17
Stories of feral children told through photography

Design News > Art & Photography

This photographer sheds light on the cruelty faced by children as they are abandoned by society absolutely. >

17 Mar 17
A conceptualised take on gendered domestic bliss

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women addresses our gendered view of domesticity. >

17 Mar 17

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