Design Indaba Archive

5 companies working toward a sustainable future

Design News • 20 Jun 16

Following the signing of the Paris agreement this year, sustainability is on top of everyone’s minds and it seems like global brands are leading the way. >
Margaret Calvert: Sign of the times

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:47 • 17 Jun 16

Renowned graphic designer Margaret Calvert talks tech and working against repetition. >
5 buildings rethinking what wood can do

Design News • 17 Jun 16

Wood is making a come-back as environmental concern and innovation pushes it to the forefront. >
Ged Palmer and the art of lettering

Design News • 17 Jun 16

British designer Ged Palmer is a master of hand painted lettering. He works with a brush (not a keyboard and mouse) because it brings him better peace of mind. >
The Plasmorph: A living diary

Design Frontiers • 17 Jun 16

Relying on memory alone can be daunting. Conceptual designer Ann-Kristin Abel envisions a living organism that provides customised information, >
Light-up pen provides a source of light for school children living in darkness

Design News • 17 Jun 16

Lampen has been designed to help pupils in Guinea do their homework at night. >
Benjamin Hubert’s Layer agency creates ceramic charging trays

Design News • 16 Jun 16

Elegantly designed, the ceramic trays incorporate charging in an aim to minimise the visual impact of technology. >
Twenty Journey’s "The Journeymen" opens in Durban

Design News • 16 Jun 16

Made from the footage of their 24 000 kilometre adventure, the film promises to be both heart-breaking and beautiful. >
Fleet of buses set to double up as mobile exercise studios

Design News • 16 Jun 16

London gym will transform commuter buses into spinning studios so that commuters can squeeze in a morning workout. >
Indian engineer designs a more intuitive walking aid

Design News • 16 Jun 16

Sensor device helps the visually impaired navigate their environments with greater ease. >
Network of Parisian shopkeepers welcomes homeless people

Design News • 16 Jun 16

Le Carillon is an initiative that encourages social harmony between residents, traders and the homeless. >
Fashion student designs utilitarian garments for refugees

Design News • 16 Jun 16

Parsons Fashion Design senior Angela Luna creates a collection of transformative clothing for refugees. >
For the love of GIFs

Design News • 15 Jun 16

Collective exhibit.gif puts out a call for a creative distillation of real life into the humble form of a GIF. >
Margaret Calvert on work and play over 60 years in graphic design

Talks • Duration: 00:27:34 • 15 Jun 16

South African-born graphic designer Margaret Calvert, OBE is best known for the signs she helped design for Britain's roads. You can now watch her full talk. >
8 innovative ways drones are being used today

Design News • 15 Jun 16

From fighting fires, to spotting criminals and collecting whale “snot”, here are some futuristic ways we are using drones. >
Emergency art is created and shown in no more than a day

Design News • 15 Jun 16

The art featured at MOAD’s latest exhibition is not older than 24 hours old and tackles the immediate issues of our time. >
The exhibit that turns audience into art

Design News • 15 Jun 16

Zoom Pavilion taps into our fear of ‘big brother’ when creating its pieces. >
Beating Heart: An archive of African sounds is remixed for a new album

Design News • 14 Jun 16

Several famous musicians have contributed remixes to the new Beating Hearts album, using sounds from a vast and previously private audio archive. >
Growing Warriors uses farming to help American Veterans

Design News • 14 Jun 16

Veteran soldiers make up to one million of the Americans dependant on food-stamps and this organisation is trying to help. >
Chinese start-up Origins works to purify the air

Product Spotlight • 14 Jun 16

Founded in one of the smoggiest cities in the world, Origins’ machines don’t only detect the toxins in the air, they try to remove them as well. >
Willy-Wonka style elevators proposed for London

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 16

Elevators that transport Londoners out of the subway up to their office blocks using upward, downward and sideways movement. >
Refugee Challenge: Community, innovation and information

Design News • 14 Jun 16

In the second installment of our look at the Refugee Challenge, we look at what design can do to solve their problems. >
Sou Fujimoto: The infinite possibilities of open field architecture

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:06:02 • 13 Jun 16

Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto talks about how architecture should create spaces for people to behave as they would like to. >
We talk to the co-creator of the Bureo recycled fishing net skateboards

Design News • 13 Jun 16

The Ahi skateboard is made of recycled fishing nets and its creators at Bureo Inc. are working hard to protect our oceans. >

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