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Advice from past Design Indaba Emerging Creatives
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Here's what illustrator Daniel Ting Chong, director Anthony Silverston, artist Paul Senyol and furniture designer Neil Grantham have to say.
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8 Aug 18
9 creatives to look out for this Women's Month
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To celebrate Women's Month, we're highlighting the work of some of our former participants in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme.
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6 Aug 18
A gonzo approach to design with Studio Swine
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The creative duo gives tangible form to a style of journalism popularised for its energetic, first-person technique.
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31 Jul 18
3 African creatives on the importance of feedback, values and dabbling in different sectors
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Former Design Indaba Emerging Creatives reflect on their journeys since leaving the incubator programme.
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25 Jul 18
Finding our humanity and breaking barriers through artistic intervention
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The global travelling exhibition Tolerance comes to Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg
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17 Jul 18
How I got here: Edel Rodriguez
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Creative Review's Salonee Gadgil speaks to Design Indaba Conference speaker, Edel Rodriguez
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17 Jul 18
The world’s most awarded “Adman” to headline at Design Indaba Conference 2019
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Global advertising superstar David Droga will take centre stage at the renowned Design Indaba Conference.
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16 Jul 18
Visi favourites: Design Indaba 2018
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Here is a selection of just some of the inspiring things we saw and heard about during the three-day festival of creativity in Cape Town.
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16 Jul 18
The untold history behind William Kentridge’s most ambitious project to date
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“The colonial logic toward the black participants could be summed up by: ‘Lest their actions merit recognition, their deeds must not be recorded’.”
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12 Jul 18
Zambian fashion entrepreneur on prints, nostalgia and the importance of finding synergy
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Lucy Mulima started Aya Goods after years spent working in fashion, PR and media.
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5 Jul 18
The A’ Design Award and competition is open for entries
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The awards aim to advance society through good design.
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26 Jun 18
The Living Chair celebrates the beauty of imperfection
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Carpenter reinterprets his father’s iconic rocking chair design with flawed salvaged wood.
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23 Jun 18
Heartworks: Storytelling through crafts and embroidery
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Helle Vibeke Jensen and Tina Ratzer’s Heartworks workshop inspires out-of-the-box thinking.
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15 Jun 18
Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden
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The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose.
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11 Jun 18
Threads of Peru shines a spotlight on traditional Quechua weaving culture
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Non-profit organisation economically empowers skilled women artisans from Peru.
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8 Jun 18
This young South African artist uses the everyday dinner plate as a canvas
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Duma Mtimkulu was one of 40 young exhibitors at Design Indaba 2018. Entries for 2019 are now open.
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4 Jun 18
Poetry's power with Lebo Mashile
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The South African artist's rousing Design Indaba Conference talk on body politics, identity politics, and black female representation.
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9 May 18
This design festival is stitching together India's design community
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"It was one of its kind in the Indian design history. I’m not aware of any other festivals organised on such a massive scale."
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30 Apr 18
Jomo Tariku on changing perceptions around what constitutes modern furniture
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“The modern furniture industry treats African furniture as something of a novelty,” says the Ethiopian-American furniture designer.
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17 Apr 18
Feyi Olubodun on what international brands get wrong about the African consumer
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"I argue very strongly that sophistication and westernisation don’t mean the same thing. You can be sophisticated and not be westernised."
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9 Apr 18
13 crafty creatives of product, interiors and industrial design
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Insects, bottle caps, shapes and colours, are just some of the inspirations behind the work of these 2018 Emerging Creatives.
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2 Apr 18
On the future of food, fashion and eating our environmental problems away
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The world is changing rapidly, this means our fashion and food choices need to keep up.
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30 Mar 18
The Trap is an exploration of the female form merged with nature
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Ali Aschman explores her conflicting feelings on the ways in which women have been associated with nature through the ages.
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18 Mar 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | March 2018
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Find out why this design made the cut in this month's crowdfunding round-up.
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14 Mar 18
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