Design Indaba Archive

No Man’s Sky: The videogame that conceives galaxies

Design Frontiers • Duration: 5:53 • 19 Aug 16

The 2016 offering of Hello Games is pushing the possibilities of open-world gameplay to new stratospheres. >
Boombox champions nomadic retail spaces

Design News • 19 Aug 16

A startup platform that gives emerging businesses access to a public market. >
Tiny device uses sunlight to disinfect water

Design News • 18 Aug 16

Researchers at Stanford University created a tiny device that purifies water in minutes. >
Saving the planet with art supplies

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The startup turning air pollution into ink. >
Project Florence: Opening communication with plant life

Design Frontiers • Duration: 2:21 • 18 Aug 16

Helene Steiner works to expand communication with plants. The resulting dialogue is bizarre and intriguing. >
The creative collective disrupting SA's National Arts Festival

Design News • 18 Aug 16

The 10 Day Men are shaking things up in Grahamstown. >
Students create seaweed-based yarn to tackle fashion industry pollution

Design News • 18 Aug 16

BioEsters is a bio-based material that presents a sustainable yarn alternative for designers. >
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals

Design News • 17 Aug 16

Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >
Blubel: The intelligent bicycle bell

Product Spotlight • Duration: 3:29 • 17 Aug 16

Blubel Tech’s new device for cyclists offers far more than the chime of a bell. >
Intuitive wardrobe donates unworn clothes to charities

Design News • 17 Aug 16

The Internet of Clothes is a creative concept that tackles the over consumption of fashion. >
Capturing the "Gully Queens" of Jamaica

Design News • 17 Aug 16

Pieter Hugo’s collaboration with Hood by Air is a celebration of the vilified gay community of Kingston. >
Concrete creative: Entries to South Africa’s biggest art and design prize are still open

Design News • 17 Aug 16

PPC Imaginarium Awards are open for entries for their 2016/2017 competitions until the end of September 2016. >
Wintergatan Marble Machine: Making music with marbles

Product Spotlight • Duration: 4:32 • 17 Aug 16

This arcade-style music box features a range of programmable instruments. >
Jewellery made from everyday items

Design News • 16 Aug 16

Johannesburg-based alternative jeweller Belinda Phofu uncovers the untapped potential of everyday items. >
Sustaining the memory of the ‘Black Mamba’

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Cryus Kabiru’s roadster fixation leads to imaginative and nostalgic sculptures. >
In the pipeline: The new underwater motorways of Norway

Design Frontiers • Duration: 0:55 • 16 Aug 16

These submerged floating tubes may be the first step into trans-Atlantic road connections. >
DuoSkin: Tattoo-like devices print tech on skin

Design Frontiers • 16 Aug 16

Using gold leaf metal, MIT researchers are placing customised, tattoo-like interfaces directly onto the skin of the user. >
Emerging Creatives 2017 – applications closed

Festival News • 15 Aug 16

There’s nothing better than owning your own business, but there’s also nothing more challenging. >
Photographer documents the struggles of Jatra’s former actors

Design News • 15 Aug 16

Soumya Sankar Bose photographs the folk-theatre actors who have left the stage behind to make a living. >
Osborne Macharia’s little Kenyan battle squad

Design News • 15 Aug 16

The man who set the internet ablaze with his astonishing images of eccentric Kenyans has turned his attention to another group of characters: little people. >
Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past

Opinion • 15 Aug 16

The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before. >
Ceiling lamp made from its own packaging

Design News • 15 Aug 16

Dutch design studio creates waste-free lamp from cardboard tubing. >
A stitched strategy for Zika prevention

Design News • 15 Aug 16

Virtual marketplace Maternova tackles the Zika emergency using stylish apparel. >
Design Centre mimics human anatomy

Design News • 12 Aug 16

Solar-powered and inspired by skin and bone, the Xinhee Design Centre defies every office building norm. >

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