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Africa is now

Design Frontiers > African Design

‘African design is reshaping the world’s cultural stage and sport shows us how.’

22 Feb 24
Africa is now

22 Feb 24
Africa is now

22 Feb 24
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The shoulders of giants

Design News > African Design

A monumental retrospective tracks Esther Mahlangu’s lifelong pursuit of the arts.

22 Feb 24
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Fabric of the future

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Biofluff’s Savian is the ‘world’s first plant-based fur’.

22 Feb 24
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Building bridges

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

This unreinforced bridge in France was created using 3D-printed recycled-material blocks.

13 Feb 24
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Unravelled

Design News > African Design

Textile artworks from the 1960s to today challenge structures of power.

13 Feb 24
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Sideways skyscraper

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The Link in the UAE is the world’s longest cantilever.

13 Feb 24
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Stand by me

Design News > Design Thinking

A Segway-style ‘invisible’ wheelchair.

6 Feb 24
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Ancestral threads

Design News > Film & Animation

Hakopike’s new solo exhibition expresses the artist’s vivid visions of ancestry.

6 Feb 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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Watch talks from our design conference

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Maxim Velčovský on communist philosophy and design

Talks > Product Design

23 Sep 10 / Design Indaba Conference 2008
00:27:34

Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

15 Jun 16 /
00:22:20

Steven Heller on how an addiction developed into a calling

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

20 Nov 13 / Design Indaba Conference 2013
00:51:18

Bruce Mau on change and crises

Talks > Design Thinking

6 Sep 10 / Design Indaba Conference 2009
00:07:44

Teshia Treuhaft on how a dancer helped her be a better designer

Talks > Product Design

13 Jan 15 / Design Indaba Conference 2014
00:33:33

Fred Gelli on designing an Olympic identity that connects anyone and everyone

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

4 Aug 16 / Design Indaba Conference 2016

From the Archives

Future compostable

Design News > Product Design

Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier >

13 Jun 22
Hold my beer

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >

13 Jun 22
A continental visionary

Q&A > Design Thinking

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >

13 Jun 22
Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

13 Jun 22