2019 Archive

The three industry greats hosting Design Indaba 2019

Design News • 22 Feb 19

From 2019 Design Indaba Conference speaker Lucas De Man to the iconic performer Lebo Mashile, get to know this year's hosts. >
The Mother & Baby Hospital Unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Design News • 26 Feb 19

White Arkitekter has unveiled its design for a mother and baby unit for the Panzi Hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo. >
Typeface inspired by the movement of dance

Design News • 27 Feb 19

Typographers María Ramos and Noel Pretorius together with dancer Andile Vellem have launched Movement, a new font inspired by the art of dance. >
Young designers are the future of the industry, but what are they saying?

Next Generation • 27 Feb 19

Some of these young designers, like urbanist Nicole Moyo, will take the stage at Day 1 of the 2019 Design Indaba Festival. >
A vote for ‘beauty’: What does it mean to you?

Design News • 27 Feb 19

As Design Indaba 2019 kicks off, voting for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is still open! Make your choice now. >
Keenan Wyrobek presents his revolutionary drone system at Design Indaba Festival 2019

Design Frontiers • 27 Feb 19

The world's only drone delivery service gets life-saving medical supplies and blood to the most remote and difficult to reach places on Earth. >
Global Graduate Shaina Garfield on the limits of empathetic design

Design News • 28 Feb 19

Speaking on Thursday at Design Indaba Conference 2019, Shaina Garfield penned this insightful piece on design for the disabled. >
Watch: Designing near death with the student who created her own coffin

Video Interviews • 28 Feb 19

Shaina Garfield is one of 12 graduates who are speaking at Design Indaba Festival 2019. >
Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind

Next Generation • 28 Feb 19

We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible. >
Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

Design Frontiers • 1 Mar 19

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet." >
Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News • 1 Mar 19

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty. >
#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News • 4 Mar 19

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali. >
Neo African artist Dennis Osadebe’s new work is begging us to Stand for Something

Design Frontiers • 5 Mar 19

“I ask myself again and again. What is African art? Who gets to define it? What are its limits? And where is it going?” >
Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?

Design Frontiers • 6 Mar 19

Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product. >
Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter

Design Frontiers • 11 Mar 19

Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere. >
Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people." >
Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design

Design Frontiers • 12 Mar 19

The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile. >
Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News • 13 Mar 19

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints. >
The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 19

“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck. >
7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation • 13 Mar 19

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019. >
4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News • 14 Mar 19

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent. >
Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles

Design Frontiers • 14 Mar 19

Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure. >
8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation • 15 Mar 19

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme. >
Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News • 18 Mar 19

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa. >

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