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FAKA on penetrating art spaces and designing a new sound
Profiling
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30 Jun 17
Through their art, the duo is interrupting global performance and art spaces one event at a time.
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New film "Mixed Space" takes on flawed racial categories in South Africa
Q&A
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22 May 17
The colonial project mangled the way we see race, changing the way we see ourselves.
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Out on the town with young, South African creatives
Q&A
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16 May 17
19 minutes in total, this documentary is all about collabs in SA’s burgeoning creative scene.
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Call it what you want, says Olafur Eliasson, good design is about the consequences
Video Interviews
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10 May 17
Over the coming months we’ll be dropping some footage of the creatives who lit up Design Indaba 2017.
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We chat to awe-inspiring artist Olafur Eliasson
Q&A
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23 Feb 17
We held a live Twitter Q&A with artist Olafur Eliasson ahead of his Design Indaba Conference talk. Here are his forceful and beautiful thoughts.
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Women in design: Five questions with three interior designers from Emerging Creatives 2017
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16 Feb 17
A QnA with three female interior designers about their designs and the industry.
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Brand this: Coca Cola, Spotify and Miss Piggy
Q&A
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15 Feb 17
Fuelled by Oreos, coffee and talent – co-founder of brand consultancy Collins, Brian Collins talks a little more about life, work and inspiration in New York.
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An interview with visual artist Robin Rhode
Q&A
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3 Feb 17
The Cape Town-born, Berlin-based expat gives us a tour of his new exhibition ahead of his appearance at Design Indaba 2017.
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Design is not decoration: Advice from Pentagram partner Marina Willer
Q&A
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31 Jan 17
Marina Willer tells us about how film can be cathartic, why you shouldn't give up hope and shares some wise words from Dame Margaret Calvert.
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Meet the duo behind Original Swimming Party
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26 Jan 17
We sit down with musicians Jeremy De Tolly and Thomas Glendinning.
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A new look at gangsterism in South African townships
Q&A
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20 Jan 17
A creative alternative to fighting gangsterism in South Africa.
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South African filmmakers reimagine an apartheid identity
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12 Jan 17
Filmmakers Kelly-Eve Koopman and Sarah Summers on their new webseries Coloured Mentality
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