Creative Economy | Design Indaba

Airbnb co-founder on designing Olympic-sized trust between strangers

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Joe Gebbia, co-founder and chief product officer at Airbnb chats to us on the role of design in their success. >

8 Sep 17
The global addressing system, what3words continues to garner international attention

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism

What3words ensures that basic services can reach even the most remote places. >

4 Sep 17
Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience. >

28 Aug 17
The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art

Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy

This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery. >

25 Aug 17
Should you be putting your website to bed?

Design News > Creative Economy / Information Design

Sleep debt facts say yes. >

24 Aug 17
Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg. >

18 Aug 17
Crystal Kung on bringing warm feelings to life through her illustrations

Design News > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

The Taipei-based illustrator “I don’t think my drawing skills comes from talent. They come from hard work”. >

8 Aug 17
Dokter and Misses on bringing their weird dream to life on stage

Video Interviews > African Design / Craft / Creative Economy

The design duo, along with their collaborators, ensured this year's Design Indaba Conference opening talk was a theatrical feat. >

1 Aug 17
New competition for student service designers will be part of this year's London Design Festival

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking

Three winners will get to showcase their work at the 2017 Service Design Fringe Festival in London this September. >

25 Jul 17
Wasted reimagines how we deal with urban trash

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism

Amsterdam-based CITIES Foundation has used plastic as currency for two years. Now they’ve added paper, textiles and glass. >

19 Jul 17
Marko Ahtisaari explains two revolutionary projects

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Design Activism

The tech guru wants to replace medicine with music and use the Bitcoin system to overhaul the way artists are paid by streaming services. >

18 Jul 17
Unwind: Music as an alternative to traditional medicine

Talks > Creative Economy / Design Activism

Marko Ahtisaari presents Unwind, a global experiment in drug-free ways to treat physical and mental health. >

17 Jul 17
Swiss-born Rafael Kouto wants to dewesternise fashion

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

"The next big thing in fashion is open source and engagement of the consumer in the creative process." >

4 Jul 17
Cape Town feminist clothing brand on moving beyond t-shirts

Product Spotlight > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

The founders of C(l)it on unlearning their white privilege and next steps >

30 Jun 17
Design Commons is a new kind of bespoke, global, portable conference

Design News > Creative Economy

The deconstructed conference where design is the tool with which to face the challenges in our cities. >

27 Jun 17
Introducing MobyMart, the autonomous grocery store on wheels

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy / Interaction Design

“It is the store that comes to you, instead of you coming to the store.” >

19 Jun 17
Eitan Stern

Eitan is a commercial and entertainment attorney, and a director at Legalese. >

5 Jun 17
5 examples of great creativity from Poland

Design News > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Product Design

Known for its vast history and diverse culture, Poland also has mad artistic chops. >

17 May 17
Out on the town with young, South African creatives

Q&A > African Design / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

19 minutes in total, this documentary is all about collabs in SA’s burgeoning creative scene. >

16 May 17
Call it what you want, says Olafur Eliasson, good design is about the consequences

Video Interviews > Creative Economy / Design Activism

Over the coming months we’ll be dropping some footage of the creatives who lit up Design Indaba 2017. >

10 May 17
Making interactive furniture in Senegal

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

As part of an ongoing exploration of African design, we spoke to Thierry Giles, founder of the first UX research lab in West-Africa. >

25 Apr 17
Inside Impact Hub Accra

Video Interviews > African Design / Creative Economy

Entrepreneurship is part of Ghanaian culture. Impact Hub Accra leverages both formal and informal business opportunities. >

24 Apr 17
Reebok’s Cotton + Corn

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

Bringing environmentally friendly design into the footwear we love. >

10 Apr 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

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