2014 Archive

Dave Hakkens on a phone worth keeping

Talks • Duration: 00:07:26 • 18 Dec 14

The graduation project of this young Dutch designer might actually save the world. >
Experimental Jetset on scavenging the ruins of Modernism

Talks • Duration: 00:36:23 • 15 Dec 14

The Dutch graphic designers tell us how they tap into design history to create work that is rooted in today's culture. >
Agi Haines on being the Frankenstein of design

Talks • Duration: 00:09:40 • 11 Dec 14

This Royal College of Art graduate looks at the possibility of bioprinting body parts to benefit the human race. >
DJ Stout on big hair, cowboy poets and planet Texas

Talks • Duration: 00:41:56 • 3 Dec 14

The Austin-based graphic designer's work is an ode to cowboy country and the role of place in producing authentic design. >
Joy Mckinney on overstepping her boundaries

Talks • Duration: 00:07:34 • 25 Nov 14

This New York City-based artist touches people’s faces and records their response. >
Tom Hulme on technology as a design tool

Talks • Duration: 00:38:08 • 19 Nov 14

The founder of OpenIDEO tells us why we have to stop being afraid of technology. >
5 goosebump moments at Design Indaba Conference

Talks • Duration: 00:02:29 • 17 Nov 14

Five great reveals from 20 years of our globally acclaimed conference, your front-row seat to inspiration. >
Ian Murchison on wooden knives and bendy bicycle racks

Talks • Duration: 00:06:00 • 11 Nov 14

This Canadian industrial designer talks about finding the freedom to develop products that question everyday perceptions. >
Lauren Beukes on fiction as an incredible kind of telepathy

Talks • Duration: 00:38:52 • 29 Oct 14

South African author Lauren Beukes brings a singular storytelling experience to the Design Indaba Conference stage. >
Dean Poole on playing with words

Talks • Duration: 00:34:03 • 15 Oct 14

The creative director of New Zealand agency Alt Group reveals the ABC's of his creative language. >
Chris Gotz on building beautiful monsters

Talks • Duration: 00:36:27 • 24 Sep 14

The chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa shares three campaigns that turned the agency around. >
El Ultimo Grito on creating a new design ecosystem

Talks • Duration: 00:29:57 • 17 Sep 14

Through their exploratory work husband-and-wife team Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado challenge our most fundamental understanding of design. >
State of the Art ft. Athi-Patra Ruga, Nandipha Mntambo and Zanele Muholi

Talks • Duration: 01:01:54 • 10 Sep 14

Three contemporary South African artists share the intensely personal visions that come to life in their work, alongside top curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. >
David Goldblatt on life through the lens

Talks • Duration: 00:43:51 • 3 Sep 14

The veteran photographer selects 20 career-defining photos that open a window onto South Africa's conflicted history. >
Juliana Rotich on a new tech ecosystem for Africa

Talks • Duration: 00:28:48 • 27 Aug 14

What if solutions to the world’s problems came from Africa? asks Juliana Rotich, co-founder of Kenyan technology firm Ushahidi. >
Marcello Serpa on the art of reduction

Talks • Duration: 00:52:29 • 20 Aug 14

The creative director behind Havaianas on German precision and Brazilian exuberance. >
Michel Rojkind on a design strategy to cope with overstimulation

Talks • Duration: 00:35:21 • 13 Aug 14

The Mexican architect shares three ways he wades through our world of chaos and flux to create award-winning work. >
Ije Nwokorie on the messy business of branding

Talks • Duration: 00:35:21 • 6 Aug 14

It's more useful to think about branding as a messy creative process than as a pristine product, says Wolff Olins global CEO. >
Alex Atala on creativity and innovation in cuisine

Talks • Duration: 00:30:25 • 18 Mar 14

At the 2013 Design Indaba Conference Alex Atala spoke about creating dishes that sum up an entire culture. >
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on shaping the future through design

Talks • Duration: 00:31:51 • 10 Mar 14

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses Synthetic Biology to look at a conflict between a bacterial world of the future and the antibacterial world of today. >
Pieter-Jan Pieters on using human movement to compose music

Talks • Duration: 00:06:42 • 9 Jan 14

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieter-Jan Pieters makes digital music using his body parts as the instruments. >
John Maeda on design thinking and creative leadership

Talks • Duration: 00:38:00 • 7 Jan 14

Artist, graphic designer and educator John Maeda talks about the exchange between design thinking and creative leadership at 2013 Design Indaba Conference. >

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