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DATALAND

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Refik Anadol, a designer who pioneered the use of machine learning to transform data sets into abstract visual forms

9 hours 11 min ago
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Ruins to Museum

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

New museum in Accra Ghana uses art and architecture to promote urban regeneration.

9 hours 40 min ago
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Apeel

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Studio Arp transforms discarded orange peels into a leather-like material

1 Nov 24
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Waste Paper

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Cellulose fibres from recycled paper and cardboard are transformed into sustainable wall cladding.

1 Nov 24
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Dirty Chair

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Studio Aléa’s "Back to Dirt" project reimagines sustainable design through the use of myco-fabrication

31 Oct 24
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Populus

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Studio Gang’s ‘eye-catching’, aspen inspired hotel

25 Oct 24
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AI.Mogen

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Heap’s work with AI has led to the creation of Mogen

25 Oct 24
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Biomedical Stickers

Design News > Design Thinking

Innovative organ stickers to assist in post-surgery monitoring

25 Oct 24
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Sister Mono

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Pentagram has designed the visual identity for "Sister,"

18 Oct 24
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Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A showcase celebrating the iconic Frank Gehry

18 Oct 24

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Featured Series

Our featured series are collections of design stories and videos around particular themes, creative journeys and events.

Design Indaba Festival 2019

Known as the highlight of the creative calendar, Design Indaba's flagship event has evolved into so much more than a conference.
The creative women of Design Indaba Conference 2017 that are doing the most

We’ve rounded up the stellar design presentations of this year that happen to have been put together by women.
Through an African lens

African photographers are using striking imagery to tell the story of their Africa, both experienced and imagined.
AFRICA. NOW. West Africa

For the next instalment of Design Indaba’s Africa.Now. series our journalists investigate design and creativity in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.
Our Chats With series lets you interview South Africa's top creatives

Take control of an interview with some of South Africa's top innovators.
Do The Green Thing: Creativity vs Climate Change

Do The Green Thing is an inspiration feed of creative ideas to turn green living from something you ought to do to something that people want to do.

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David Goldblatt on life through the lens

Talks > Art & Photography

3 Sep 14 / Design Indaba Conference 2014
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Hellicar & Lewis on interaction design, systems and digital technology

Talks > Music & Sound Design

26 Oct 12 / Design Indaba Conference 2012
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Learn to approach design with empathy, says co-founder of Snøhetta

Talks > Design Thinking

22 Sep 17 / Design Indaba Conference 2017
00:23:21

Luyanda Mpahlwa's housing solution

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

19 Jul 10 / Design Indaba Conference 2009
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Porky Hefer on turning something negative into something positive

Talks > Design Thinking

24 Dec 13 / Design Indaba Conference 2012
00:32:06

Jens Martin Skibsted on the evolution of bicycle design

Talks > Urban & Landscape Design

24 Nov 11 / Design Indaba Conference 2011

From the Archives

Time flies

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba alumnus Neil Harbisson is ready to live Einstein’s theory of relativity with the help of a new wing-shaped sense organ >

1 May 22
Skyfall

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

A never-ending stream of dominoes extending upwards provides the building blocks of architect Jean-Paul Cassia’s latest brainchild, the Zanzibar Tower >

1 May 22
The multipotentialite side of life

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nuraan Khan wants to make beautiful, functional design accessible to everyone >

1 May 22
Where science and fiction meet

Q&A > Product Design

Kuang-Yi Ku, a former dentist turned speculative designer and artist, explores a fictional future where termites and humans live in harmony >

1 May 22