2021 Archive

The Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library by Sir David Adjaye will form a Nexus of African Discourse and Excellence in Johannesburg

Design News • 7 May 21

DI Speaker Sir David Adjaye’s new design reveals a space dedicated to the African Renaissance. >
Waterlight Converts Water into Energy with its Innovative Seawater-Powered Lamp

Design News • 3 May 21

An innovation designed to serve communities with no access to electricity, WaterLight makes use of an available natural resource. >
A Home 3D-Printed Out of Earth? Mario Cucinella Architects Teams Up with WASP to Create TECLA

Design News • 3 May 21

Ancient earth and 21st century technology come together as housing for the future. >
Can Face Masks Be Fashionable? Should They Be? Kat Van Duinen Contemplates These Pandemic-Born Questions

Design News • 3 May 21

Cape Town-based fashion designer Kat van Duinen tailors a sartorial response to the pandemic. >
Cabin Fever: Moriko and Living in Nature Inspire with Myriad Ways to Interpret Low-Key Country Living

Design News • 3 May 21

Moriko Cabins are prompted by the need to connect with nature. >
Inspiring Spaces

Design News • 30 Apr 21

The sweet spot where form meets function. >
Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Homeware Collection Merges African and English Customs

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Design Indaba Speaker Yinka Ilori’s bright and colourful new homeware incorporates his signature motifs. >
Sweden’s Onmateria Imagines a Future for the Hotel Industry hat’s Lighter on the Planet

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Green Box – an innovative biodegradable system of hotel amenities. >
The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future

Design News • 26 Apr 21

SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities. >
Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art

Design News • 26 Apr 21

Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration. >
The Pen is Mighty

Design News • 23 Apr 21

Past meets present in a powerful new era of illustration. >
Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire

Design News • 21 Apr 21

Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation. >
Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture

Design News • 21 Apr 21

Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites. >
Creative Campus: DI Speaker Annabelle Selldorf’s Role in the New LUMA Arles

Design News • 20 Apr 21

Selldorf Architects transforms railway structures into exhibition and performance spaces. >
Vincent Callebaut’s Pollinator Park Brings People into Harmony with Nature’s Pollinators

Design News • 20 Apr 21

This futuristic VR experience by the world-renowned ‘archiobiotect’ has a special focus on pollinators. >
A Future Vision

Design News • 16 Apr 21

These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons. >
Artists Wage War on Waste

Design News • 15 Apr 21

Artists Thirza Schaap and Dionnys Matos create beauty from waste. >
A Brighter Future, Together

Design News • 15 Apr 21

Morag Myerscough’s recent interventions with the Ilukuluku Art Collective have brought colour and joy to the communities they touch. >
Table Talk with Thabisa Mjo

Design News • 15 Apr 21

Thabisa Mjo of Mash T. Design Studio launches new ceramics collection. >
Capture the Moment

Design News • 8 Apr 21

Meet the photographers behind the lens of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2021. >
Fashion’s Fresh Faces

Design News • 31 Mar 21

Meet the fashionistas of the 2021 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives >
Meet the design stars of tomorrow

Design News • 25 Mar 21

Design Indaba announces the Emerging Creatives Class of 2021. >
Architecture’s New Wonder Material

Design Frontiers • 25 Mar 21

This new sustainable material has been engineered with a better future in mind. >
Meet the new curators of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2021

Design News • 21 Mar 21

Thabiso Mjo and Cole Ndelu to pick this years crop of up-and-coming designers >

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