Conference Talks | Design Indaba

From our archives: Michael Bierut on how to think like a designer

Conference Talks • Design Indaba Conference 2015 • Duration 00:39:15

Michael Bierut runs us through some of his major projects and the thought processes behind them: a rare opportunity to get into his award-winning mind.

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What is the data behind #MeToo really telling us?

Design Thinking

In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying.

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Keenan Wyrobek on saving lives with drones

Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

“Doctors shared with us their torment at losing patients they knew how to save. They knew the treatments. They just didn’t have the supplies.”

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Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez on tackling the world’s problems with creativity

Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Food Design / Information Design / Product Design

Gonzalez shares his method to coming up with creative solutions to everyday problems.

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Yuri Suzuki on combining his passion for music and design

Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

The Japanese sound designer shares how he finds “order in the noise.”

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Tin&Ed on work that fosters togetherness and celebrating the unknown

Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

“The unknown in our practice is the most fertile place, and we love the unknown."

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How ostrich feathers are uplifting Oudtshoorn's economy through design

African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

Pascale Theron's work looks at breathing life into the vulnerable ostrich farming industry in Oudtshoorn, South Africa.

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Dave Hakkens on tackling the planet's waste

Creative Economy / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Industrial Design / Product Design

“When I start something I like to start with a problem.”

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David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising

Creative Economy / Film & Animation

“Linear and logical people make the world go round, but it’s the creative people who make it worth living in."

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Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant

Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation

“I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy.

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IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words

African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

At Design Indaba Conference 2019, the group of African designers share the motivations behind the products they dreamed up and realised.

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Designer Ini Archibong on merging myth and reality to create The Secret Garden

Craft / Product Design

The ECAL graduate spoke about overcoming a difficult time, his design process and the importance of fulfilling a higher purpose.

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Danish designer Johannes Torpe on the power of design to create universes

Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Industrial Design

“To create a universe around our products we actually have to take it out into the hands of the people who have to use it."

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00:29:40

Zach Lieberman on using human gestures to bring his work to life

Art & Photography / Information Design / Interaction Design

The coder and artist speaks on his collaboration with Design Indaba and projects that have stayed close to him.

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Graphic designer Natasha Jen poses six questions for design thinkers

Graphic Design & Illustration

During her Design Indaba Conference talk she expands on her thinking since declaring: Design Thinking is Bullshit.

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Morag Myerscough on transforming spaces with colour and embracing the unknown

Graphic Design & Illustration

The London-based designer takes us through her work that’s added colour to hospitals, public spaces and more.

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Landscape architect Peter Veenstra on the importance of bringing nature into our cities

Architecture & Interiors

Veenstra, of LOLA Landscapes, talks us through three projects including the Dome of Plants, planned for the City of Cape Town.

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Lonny van Ryswyck on the importance of looking after our diminishing resources as designers

Design Thinking / Product Design

In her 2018 Design Indaba Conference talk she takes us through her projects including, A World of Sand, where people donated sand from all over the world.

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Martha Cotton on the growth and influence that design has on business

Design Thinking

“My clients have started to really look towards the way me and my design colleagues look at the world and solve problems."

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Graphic designer extraordinaire, Tony Brook, on his studio’s creative journey

Graphic Design & Illustration

The founder of Spin Studio shares his creative wisdom with the Design Indaba audience.

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Ensamble Studio on building flexible, stackable spaces and working with nature

Architecture & Interiors

"When we look at nature we want to learn from it, we want to build with it."

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00:40:21

Edel Rodriguez on childhood, nationalism and a nation on fire

Art & Photography / Design Activism

The Cuban-born illustrator was dubbed "America’s Illustrator-In-Chief" by Fast Company.

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00:53:50

When a natural disaster occurred in Chile, Alejandro Aravena and his team set out to rebuild the city

Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

The architect tackles the reconstruction of a city through public participation.

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What a cup of tea teaches us about the value of water

Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism

Shaakira Jassat's ThirTEA for One project highlights the hidden footprint in the lifecycle of the products we consume.

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The maker of Algiknit talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech

Fashion & Jewellery Design

Aleksandra Gosiewski's work touches on sustainable ways to fix the disconnect within the fashion industry.

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What is the data behind #MeToo really telling us?

Design Thinking

In her research, graduate Ellie Frymire looks beyond the tweets to delve further into what people are really saying.

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