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Must-sees at Expo 2020 Dubai UAE!
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From fascinating pavilions to installations by #DI Alumni, there’s no shortage of enthralling innovations
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6 Oct 21
#DI Emerging Creative Pule Magopa tells us about how graffiti shaped his artistic career
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A Design Indaba exclusive on personal ID, artistic challenges and mixed media
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29 Sep 21
#DI Emerging Creative Boitumelo Thindiza on how fashion influences her work
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The photographer shares her no-rules approach to creating
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22 Sep 21
We’re now inviting entries for Design Indaba Emerging Creatives 2022
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The search for SA’s next design mavens is on!
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1 Sep 21
Exclusive: Former #DI Emerging Creative Sifiso Kunene shares his new Resort ‘21 collection
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We get resort-ready with fashion designer Sifiso Kunene
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24 Aug 21
#DI Alumni unite: Selly Rabe Kane tackles pollution in a short film for Little Sun
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Little Sun starts a new climate conversation
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20 Aug 21
A-E-I-O-U - Gisèle Human’s new Waif film by Frankie Nassimbeni - addresses mental health
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Former #DI Emerging Creative Gisèle Human creates a safe space for healing, softness, and peace
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16 Aug 21
#DI Emerging Creative Chelsea Robin Ingham chats to us about printmaking
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Chelsea Robin Ingham on printmaking, coloured culture and ‘imposter syndrome’
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9 Aug 21
Our media partner ARTSTHREAD & GUCCI join forces to showcase the world’s design graduates
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Following the success of the 2020 Global Design Graduate Show, ARTSTHREAD is ready for another round
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9 Aug 21
#DI Emerging Creative Fiona Davhana talks appreciating the natural, expressing womanhood and being her own muse
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Creativity as a form of healing and body positivity
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9 Aug 21
Iwan Baan will transport you to the ‘Most Hopeful Places on Earth’
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Renowned photographer Iwan Baan guest-curates See All This.
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2 Aug 21
We chatted to #DI Emerging Creative Thando Phenyane about his wide-ranging influences
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Thando Phenyane’s artworks pay homage to his architectural and art studies.
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2 Aug 21
A changing landscape
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This week: Design takes Gold in Tokyo; the war on waste; and artists changing norms…
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29 Jul 21
We chat to #DI Emerging Creative Kgothatso Malatjie about her emotionally charged multimedia work
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Kgothatso Malatjie uses different artforms to express herself her emotions
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26 Jul 21
Pavilion Tokyo 2021 is a public arts intervention featuring former #DI Speaker Sou Fujimoto
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Sou Fujimoto’s whimsical Cloud Pavilion adds visual poetry to urban Tokyo
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26 Jul 21
#DI Exclusive: Steloolive launches his latest experimental project, NiKANiKA Robotics
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Maverick Ghanian muso and #DI18 performer Steloolive shares his most recent artistic explorations with us
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26 Jul 21
Design that envisions a better future
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No Waste winners, parks that halt climate change, & fashion that empowers…
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22 Jul 21
LOLA and Piet Oudolf’s visionary new landscaping book and exhibition focuses on public gardens as a solution to climate change
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Explore former #DI Speaker Peter Veenstra’s fertile new collab with Piet Oudolf
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19 Jul 21
Exploring Woven Cosmos, Kenyan biophilia, music’s mavericks, & our newest multimedia-ists
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New worlds
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15 Jul 21
We interview #DI Emerging Creative Alizwa Mnyatheli on her otherworldly art
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Self-taught artist Alizwa Mnyatheli’s work poetically explores various mediums.
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12 Jul 21
Hella Jongerius - a former #DI Speaker - welcomes you into her magical world of weaving
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Woven Cosmos, Hella Jongerius’ interactive show, demonstrates 25 years of textile wisdom.
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12 Jul 21
Discover how #DI Emerging Creative Nhlakanipho Mashinini explores difficult subject matter in our exclusive interview with the young digital artist
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As a way to make sense of chaos, Nhlakanipho Mashinini layers different artistic techniques.
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12 Jul 21
Why KoolKiel’s cool, Kenya’s new CAMO-flage, proud LGBTQIA+ garb, & more!
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A shot of Expression
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8 Jul 21
Denouncing plastic, hair as art, African spirituality & the Bouroullec Brothers’s latest…
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Design for people, by people.
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7 Jul 21
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