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IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.
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2 Apr 19
Cross Cultural Chairs examines the role of the chair in our modern society
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Craft
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
"Analysing a chair you can understand the stature of a culture, what kind of materials they used and what kind of techniques they knew."
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1 Apr 19
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.
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1 Apr 19
This device could simplify and reduce the costs of TB treatment
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
An MIT research team conceived a device that would release a month’s supply of antibiotics within the body
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26 Mar 19
Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden
Talks
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Craft
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Product Design
The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose.
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25 Mar 19
Zipline is the small medical drone in Rwanda solving a worldwide logistics problem
Design News
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Design Activism
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Product Design
"Health is where we found the connection between something we knew we could do and a problem that needed solving," Zipline's Keenan Wyrobek.
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25 Mar 19
7 Interior designers that should be on your radar
Next Generation
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African Design
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019.
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13 Mar 19
The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection
Design Frontiers
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck.
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13 Mar 19
Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?
Design Frontiers
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Industrial Design
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product.
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6 Mar 19
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali.
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4 Mar 19
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019
Design News
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African Design
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Product Design
The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty.
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1 Mar 19
Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind
Next Generation
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible.
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28 Feb 19
Global Graduate Shaina Garfield on the limits of empathetic design
Design News
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Speaking on Thursday at Design Indaba Conference 2019, Shaina Garfield penned this insightful piece on design for the disabled.
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28 Feb 19
Hanna Dalrot
Hannah Dalrot wants to create products that clearly demonstrate its handicraft
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18 Feb 19
Johanna Jelinek
Johanna Jelinek designs products for function, honesty and longevity.
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18 Feb 19
Iina Vuorivirta
IKEA’s in-house designer Iina Vuorivirta has learned to challenge briefs and make use of waste materials.
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18 Feb 19
Kevin Gouriou
Designer Kevin Gouriou is driven by a passion for craft.
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18 Feb 19
Harvesting water from unexpected places
Next Generation
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Design Activism
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Product Design
The way we build our cities can help us harvest water sustainably, says Design Indaba alumna Shaakira Jassat.
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18 Feb 19
designboom
Founded in Milan in 1999, designboom is the world's first and most popular digital architecture and design magazine.
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14 Feb 19
Architectural Record
Architectural Record is the #1 source for news and information about architecture and design.
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14 Feb 19
Domus
Domus. Empowering inspirational thinkers. Since 1928.
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13 Feb 19
Kacper Pietrzykowski
Kacper is a graduate of the Design and Engineering Master's programme at Politecnico di Milano (Italy).
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12 Feb 19
Mirjam de Bruijn
Mirjam de Bruijn's work questions the way we use our everyday products.
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12 Feb 19
Come experience Nightscape, the Creative Village at Design Indaba
Festival News
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African Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Art & Photography
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Craft
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Film & Animation
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Music & Sound Design
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Product Design
There is no need to book, and entry to Nightscape is absolutely free – come enjoy the design exhibitions, film, installations, curated retail and live music.
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12 Feb 19
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