Design Indaba Archive

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea

Design News • 19 Apr 17

Directed by Dash Shaw, the film’s lo-fi quality goes against the trend of current animation. >
Digital tool tracks innovative water projects in the US

Design News • 19 Apr 17

The US is battling against ageing infrastructure. This Living Map highlights its wins so far. >
Artwork for equity

Design News • 19 Apr 17

These original postcards promote inclusion, equity, liberation, and justice for all races. >
Telling positive African stories through photography

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:18 • 18 Apr 17

An interview with Senegalese photographer Abdoulaye Ndao. >
The Mashambas Skyscraper

Design News • 18 Apr 17

A skyscraper conceived as an educational centre and marketplace for new agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa. >
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air

Design Frontiers • 18 Apr 17

This device also works in arid regions >
Farmerline uses SMSes to empower small-scale farmers in Ghana

Design News • 18 Apr 17

Ghanaian tech provider, Farmerline offers innovative mobile communication and farming information services to literate and illiterate rural farmers >
Mateusz Urbanowicz’s Tokyo Storefront series

Design News • 18 Apr 17

These delightful illustrations document the changing face of the Japanese capital. >
Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress

Video Interviews • 17 Apr 17

A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara. >
DuoSkin: Tattoos that work as on-skin interfaces

Design News • 14 Apr 17

MIT have developed DuoSkin, a metallic tattoo that enables you to use your skin as an interface to control devices, receive data and communicate. >
Giorgia Lupi: Drawing from life

Design News • 14 Apr 17

A brief jaunt through design, part two. Today we share a short interview with emotional data translator Giorgia Lupi. >
Nelly Ben Hayoun: An impolite future hero

Design News • 13 Apr 17

A brief jaunt through design, part one. Today we begin with a designer who tries to put volcanoes in your living room. >
Turning shipping containers into renewable solar units

Design Frontiers • 13 Apr 17

SolarTurtle is an innovative green energy product that relies solely on battery-based distribution for rural electrification. >
Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients

Design Frontiers • 13 Apr 17

Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR. >
Zadok Ben-David makes art out of all the people he saw but never met

Design News • 13 Apr 17

The London-based artist’s work laments the human race’s growing isolation. >
The Illegal Project by Daniel Obasi

Design News • 13 Apr 17

These stunning images look at the Nigerian LGBTQ community forced to hide their sexual orientation. >
Free language education for the world

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:40 • 12 Apr 17

Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free. >
The surreal self-portraits of Izumi Miyazaki

Design News • 12 Apr 17

The young Japanese photographer’s work makes the mundane curious. >
A card game for positive vibes

Design News • 12 Apr 17

If a random act of kindness comes into your life, pay it forward. >
The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination

Design Frontiers • 12 Apr 17

Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”. >
Manooi: An atelier that sculpts light

Design News • 12 Apr 17

Hungarian lighting design studio Manooi create bespoke crystal chandeliers with cutting edge style. >
Self-portraiture by Zanele Muholi

Design News • 11 Apr 17

Visual activist Zanele Muholi turns the camera on herself. >
Woza: The story of an African Surfer

Next Generation • 11 Apr 17

"Woza" tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata. >
This animated series is a hilariously relatable confrontation of gender stereotypes

Design News • 11 Apr 17

2D animator and filmmaker Caress Reeves’ shorts address gendered reactions on the current culture. >

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