Articles

Tiger Maremela uses digital collage to examine black masculinities in the “Rainbow Nation”

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Joburg-based Tiger Maremela uses popular South African consumer products in their digital art to examine capitalism, modernisation and black masculinities. >
Beercycling transforms urine into beer

Design News • 19 Feb 16

Northern Europe’s largest festival turns festivalgoers’ urine into fertiliser for barley crops >
Day two of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 18 Feb 16

The second day of Conference 2016 took us from architecture in Japan to a kitchen in Spain ended with a heavy hit of Swedish rock. >
Twins Cartoon release a comic in English

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Twins Cartoon release their comic magazine Garage in English for the first time at Design Indaba Conference. >
Redesigning a product that helps you do good

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Award-winning designer Benjamin Hubert teamed up with Acts of Random Kindness to design a new ARK. >
The designer works as the creative catalyst, says Fred Gelli

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Focused on sustainable design, Fred Gelli believes we’ll need to redesign the way we live. >
Basia Dżaman’s carbon fibre 3D printer of the future

Design News • 18 Feb 16

Polish student Basia Dżaman modified a robotic arm using specially designed, 3D printed tools. >
Ugandan motor company unveils Africa's first solar bus

Design Frontiers • 18 Feb 16

Uganda-based Kiira Motors revealed the first solar-powered bus in Africa – the Kayoola prototype bus. >
Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Day one of Design Indaba Conference 2016 brought audiences stories of courage, collaboration, confetti and cocks. >
Christophe Guberan’s living textiles self-adapt, move, and transform

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Global graduate Christophe Guberan creates products that challenge the limits of matter. >
A tool to remotely monitor and support the rehabilitation of mastectomy patients

Next Generation • 17 Feb 16

Pia Nyakairu has developed a wand-like product and app, which allows physiotherapists to monitor the progress of mastectomy patients over a digital platform. >
The Wonderland Project – I wonder what it could be?

Design News • 17 Feb 16

Nedbank is repurposing decommissioned ATMs into works of wonder and are calling the Design Indaba Conference and Simulcast delegates to share their ideas. >
Joel Nsadha: From Kampala to New York

Design News • 17 Feb 16

“People inspire me. Everybody has an interesting story to tell.” >
UCT’s Shackville: Protesting the housing crisis with public art

Design News • 16 Feb 16

Students erected a shack on the grounds of the Cape’s prestigious university as a symbol of the lived experience of many of its students. >
Enzi leather shoes are designed to raise the profile of made-in-Ethiopia

Product Spotlight • 16 Feb 16

Enzi shoes are responsibly made in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and aim to raise the profile of East African products. >
Furniture made from plant fibres and recycled plastic

Product Spotlight • 16 Feb 16

Colombian startup company, Diseclar takes waste from local industries to produce elegant furniture. >
Anuj Sharma uses buttons and bands to teach fashion design

Design News • 16 Feb 16

Indian fashion designer Anuj Sharma helps others construct their own clothing with little resources. >
A Danish art pavilion is in transit to a Kenyan slum where it’ll now be a school

Design News • 16 Feb 16

The pavilion designed by SelgasCano for a Danish art museum has been packed up and shipped to Africa’s largest slum, to assume its second life as a school. >
Mercedes-Benz: The Best or Nothing

Design News • 16 Feb 16

Mercedes-Benz is widely acknowledged as the “inventor of the automobile”, their technical features and design were both well ahead of their time. >
A water-purifying boat designed for a floating slum

Design News • 16 Feb 16

Bamboo Recumbent is a bamboo raft that improves water quality and local health in the Philippines. >
A high-tech, microwavable notebook

Design News • 16 Feb 16

Rocket Innovations gave the traditional notebook a much needed tech upgrade. >
Last chance to enter the A’ Design Awards

Design News • 15 Feb 16

Entries are still open for all categories of the prestigious A’ Design Awards. >
“Coletor Cidadão” debunks the stigma of garbage collectors in Brazil

Design News • 15 Feb 16

Social design used to build community awareness around garbage-collecting professionals. >
Grass-based condoms are the latest innovation in safe sex

Design News • 15 Feb 16

A group of researchers at the University of Queensland are using a native Australian grass as the key component in designing thinner and stronger condoms. >
Changing our notions of acceptance

Product Spotlight • 15 Feb 16

Christoph Zellweger, a Design Indaba speaker in 2008, has released his latest body of work entitled Domesticated, exploring our notions of beauty. >
Underwater sculptures speak to our collective responsibility

Design News • 15 Feb 16

Sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor tackles social issues using hyper-realistic underwater sculptures. >
Peepoople restore dignity to those without sanitation

Product Spotlight • 15 Feb 16

Rural communities are constantly under the threat of diseases and social ills due to a lack of sanitation. >
Fontana Arte: Lighting up homes since the 1930s

Design News • 15 Feb 16

Italian design brand Fontana Arte has been creating lighting fixtures for over 80 years, with some of their earliest designs still amongst their most popular. >
Ethnographic photographs and digital art converge in Folasade Adeoso's work

Lookbook • 15 Feb 16

Digital artist Folasade Adeoso juxtaposes ethnographic photos of the colonial era with drawn lines, gif animations and flashing flowers of present-day Tumblr. >
The Centre for Afrofuturist Studies considers the futurity of black art

Design News • 12 Feb 16

Based in Iowa City, the newly founded Centre for Afrofuturist Studies is a two-year artists-in-residency programme that examines blackness, art and technology. >

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