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Capturing tranquility in chaos

Next Generation > African Design / Design Thinking

This designer draws geometric inspiration from unusual places. >

17 Feb 17
The eccentric ways modern designers are telling the time

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

This peculiar collection of timepieces makes the hours fly by. >

17 Feb 17
#enlightenme: Join our live Q&A with artist Olafur Eliasson

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

On Thursday evening we're hosting a live Q&A with monumental Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. What do you want to ask him? >

15 Feb 17
Would we trade gold and silver for jewellery made of light?

Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Conceptual design studio panGenerator used light projection to envision the future of jewellery design. >

14 Feb 17
Last Call for entries for the 2017 A’ Design Awards

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Product Design

Designer? Architect? There’s still time for you to get your entries in. >

14 Feb 17
Using stomach acid to power sensory tech-tablets

Design News > Design Thinking

This tiny monitor is designed to rest in your digestive system and sustain itself with it. >

14 Feb 17
Aditi Khurana

Based in New Delhi, Aditi Khurana is the International Regional Coordinator for School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City. >

13 Feb 17
7 Creative habits to inspire your everyday

Design News > Design Thinking

You can wait until inspiration strikes or until your muse arrives. Or you can start fostering your imagination today by developing a creative habit. >

13 Feb 17
Ayse Birsel

Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love". >

13 Feb 17
Nomad: A digital guide for the visually impaired

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Student designs a headset concept to tackle some of the challenges faced by the visually impaired in their daily lives. >

13 Feb 17
Marcus Engman

The head of design at IKEA challenges the way traditional products are made. >

10 Feb 17
How to partake in Africa's biggest design event – wherever you are

Festival News > African Design / Design Thinking

With so much happening at the 2017 Design Indaba Festival, we can't blame you if you feel like you can't keep up. >

10 Feb 17
Meet the next generation: Design Indaba's Global Graduates 2017

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

From practical to poetic, we'd like to introduce you our brilliant Global Graduates who’ll be presenting their work at the Design Indaba Conference 2017. >

9 Feb 17
Isabel Mager

Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power. >

9 Feb 17
Grace Jun

Grace Jun is designer and self-taught coder. Her work examines functional fashion for inclusion with the aim to anchor wearable tech to the human experience. >

9 Feb 17
Light-printable and rewritable paper is here

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Researchers have discovered an eco-friendly way to print on paper >

9 Feb 17
Shoko Tamura

Shoko Tamura is a member of Daijiro Mizuno research laboratory at Keio University, Tokyo Japan, where she looks at speculative design and the human mind. >

8 Feb 17
Eclipse: Experience time in a new way

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Product Design

A clock design that reveals and hides different notions of time. >

8 Feb 17
TL Uglow

TL Uglow ('Tea') is the creative director of Google's Creative Lab in Sydney and a tech celebrity. >

8 Feb 17
Doubt is a creative catalyst: We grow because we doubt

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking

In May 2016, Tea Uglow (formerly Tom) spoke on doubt as a creative catalyst. During the talk, she acknowledged she is transgender. Tea is speaking at DI 2017. >

8 Feb 17
Improving sanitation with the waterless toilet

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

An international group of engineers turn their attention to a basic need. >

7 Feb 17
Mind-reading device gives paralysed people ability to communicate

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

A brain-computer interface records “yes” or “no” answers for paralysis sufferers. >

7 Feb 17
Marko Ahtisaari

Tech entrepreneur Marko Ahtisaari is the CEO and co-founder of The Sync Project, which investigates the therapeutic effects of music on the body and mind. >

6 Feb 17
"Everything is possible at Design Indaba": We talk to Nelly Ben Hayoun

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Ahead of her third appearance on the Design Indaba stage, we talk to Nelly Ben Hayoun about her DI experiences, inspiration and why impossible doesn’t exist. >

6 Feb 17

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