2018 Archive

9 creatives to look out for this Women's Month

Design News • 6 Aug 18

To celebrate Women's Month, we're highlighting the work of some of our former participants in the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme. >
Entries for the second Future Food Design Awards are now open

Design Frontiers • 3 Aug 18

Set to be held during this year’s annual Dutch Design Week, the competition is seeking to solidify the connection between the worlds of food and design. >
Gourmet Grubb on making ice cream from insect milk

Design News • 3 Aug 18

Food designer Leah Bessa was part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme. >
Drop Drop app helps water conservation in drought-stricken South Africa

Design News • 3 Aug 18

A new app makes every drop of water count as South Africa’s water crisis continues. >
These five creative women are using fashion, food and more to challenge and inspire

Design Frontiers • 2 Aug 18

This Women’s Month, we take a look back at some of the fiercely creative women who have graced the Design Indaba stage. >
These striking images offer an alternative view of Nigerian diversity

Design News • 2 Aug 18

“One of the biggest statements I try to make with my work is that there is no single Nigerian culture.” >
Artist imagines colossal vertical slums in Lagos

Design News • 2 Aug 18

Are slums shaping the face of Africa? Nigerian-born artist Lekan Jeyifo conceptualises the future of slums in Lagos. >
Meet Dutch designer, artist and entrepreneur, Joris Laarman

Design Frontiers • 1 Aug 18

“I don’t do things with a goal in my head. I just do them to discover things.” >
Underwater couture for an uncertain future by biomimicry designer Jun Kamei

Design Frontiers • 30 Jul 18

The Royal College of Art grad’s 3D-printed garments are for a world submerged in water. >
The innovative, unconventional and inspiring work of Droga5

Design News • 26 Jul 18

Ahead of David Droga’s talk at Design Indaba 2019, we take a look at some of the more impactful work from his agency. >
Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future

Design Frontiers • 25 Jul 18

Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future. >
Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo appointed ambassador for Dutch Design Week 2018

Design News • 23 Jul 18

Alongside Laurens van den Acker and Wendy Plomp, he'll be bringing his trademark activism and sense of purpose to this year's event. >
The frenzied and thought-provoking art of Peekasso

Design News • 23 Jul 18

This artist takes a buoyant and frantic view of cultural subjects on the internet. With potentially seizure-inducing animations. (You have been warned.) >
HUT: Architecture concept for a spiritual community

Design News • 20 Jul 18

This Italian design group has conceptualised a meditative hub for Tanaf Village, Senegal. >
Wikipedia's Cape Town conference tackles the issue of diversity

Design News • 20 Jul 18

Its goal is to make accessible the sum of ALL human knowledge. Here’s how the online encyclopedia plans to achieve it. >
Award-winning director Siphiwe Myeza-Mhlambi on his approach to storytelling

Design Frontiers • 19 Jul 18

“I want everything that l do to allow me to change the world." >
Can you deliver affordable housing while increasing the quality?

Design News • 19 Jul 18

The Casas Melhoradas aims to do this in Maputo where 80 per cent of the population is estimated to be living in informal settlements. >
The Tolerance Traveling Poster Show heads to Johannesburg's Constitution Hill

Design News • 16 Jul 18

Mirko Ilić's inspired exhibition continues its tour around South Africa. >
Faith XLVII unveils new mural and Peace Manifesto in San Fransisco

Design Frontiers • 16 Jul 18

"We formulated our own Manifesto, keeping the perspective as inclusive as possible. For me, the main objective is empathy. " >
Eliminating the enormous energy cost of mining cryptocurrencies

Design Frontiers • 13 Jul 18

Estonian company Nordcoin is changing the game and making crypto-farms mobile >
The untold history behind William Kentridge’s most ambitious project to date

Design News • 12 Jul 18

“The colonial logic toward the black participants could be summed up by: ‘Lest their actions merit recognition, their deeds must not be recorded’.” >
Leading local fashion designer Thabo Makhetha takes her blanket approach to the next level

Design News • 12 Jul 18

Design Indaba Emerging Creatives alumna Thabo Makhetha is now crowdfunding to produce her own textile designs. >
How can we adjust our world to accommodate an ever-expanding global population?

Design Frontiers • 11 Jul 18

These interventions could help relieve the enormous pressures felt by cities in a crowded world. >
How drones are helping in the fight against malaria

Design Frontiers • 10 Jul 18

“Where do mosquitoes go in the dry season?” >

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