Design Indaba Archive

What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Design News • 20 Dec 16

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
Kate Moross: How to make mess look good

Design News • Duration: 00:00:09 • 19 Dec 16

London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Design News • 19 Dec 16

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Design News • 19 Dec 16

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Teepee-like complex serves as a haven for Japan's elderly

Design Frontiers • 16 Dec 16

Issei Suma's whimsical structures provide a calming environment for the retired. >
South African jewellery designer Stacy Beukes on the value of community

Profiling • 16 Dec 16

We talk to the South African jewellery designer behind the brand A Ring To It. >
Stepping up solar efforts

Design News • 16 Dec 16

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
The Torturous History of the Treadmill

Design News • Duration: 02:20 • 16 Dec 16

One of the world’s most common exercise machines has quite a draconian past. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Design News • 15 Dec 16

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
An interview with Ulfah Davids – the First Lady of Twobop

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 16

In conversation with the designer behind the brand’s very first women’s collection. >
5 sustainable fashion brands

Design News • 15 Dec 16

We highlight five brands making clothes ethically >
'Lost In The World' sheds light on South Africa’s corrective rape problem

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 16

The short film is a landmark in the advent of queer, African cinema. >
Constructive Interference in the mind

Design News • Duration: 00:53 • 15 Dec 16

This sculpture demonstrates the ease with which our minds are mystified by optical illusions. >
Ibaaku: Creating unique African beats

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:07 • 14 Dec 16

While in Dakar, we talked to Senegalese music producer Ibaaku about his hypnotic afro-beats. >
An eccentric range of tools for the Guerilla Gardener

Design Frontiers • 14 Dec 16

Vanessa Harden’s brass jewellery range blurs the line between tool and accessory. >
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

Lookbook • 14 Dec 16

Benjamin Grant’s photographic tome shows the world from a thought-provoking angle. >
Chat with Lauren Beukes

Video Interviews • 14 Dec 16

Ever wanted to pick the brain of South Africa’s most acclaimed young writer? Here’s your chance. >
Naresh Ramchandani: The power and grace of words

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:23 • 13 Dec 16

Naresh Ramchandani is a master wordsmith. Here, we talk to him about some of the creative campaigns he has been involved with over the years. >
A safe, drug-free way to train your body to fight stress

Design News • 13 Dec 16

Will we be able to control our bodies stress responses with the help of technology? >
The magical figures of the Haas Brothers

Design News • 13 Dec 16

These LA-based artists blur the lines between nature and psychedelia. >
The Dementia Simulator by Di Peng

Design Frontiers • 13 Dec 16

This Central Saint Martins grad harnesses the power of empathy. >
Ungifted: Why Santa must die

Inside View • 12 Dec 16

In the latest chapter from creativity versus climate change non-profit Do The Green Thing, the greed and commercial vulgarity of Christmas is revealed. >
Seeing nature in an unusual way

Design News • Duration: 01:00 • 12 Dec 16

The Flow installation of Maotik offers a unique view of the weather around us. >
A love letter to words with Naresh Ramchandani

Talks • Duration: 00:35:38 • 12 Dec 16

Writer and word-lover Naresh Ramchandani shares his eight favourite words at Design Indaba Conference 2016. >

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