Creative Work | Design Indaba

Lyra Aoko uses the colour red as part of a photographic exploration of womanhood

Design News > Art & Photography

The Nairobi-based artist talks inspiration, collaboration and changing narratives. >

20 Apr 18
Sunu Gonera on working in Hollywood and why afrofuturism is not a new trend

Design News > African Design

“I think people are just trying to define what’s already happening on the ground.” >

20 Apr 18
6 designers who use waste as inspiration for new products

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Food Design / Product Design

From upcycling found objects into furniture, to jewellery made of e-waste and more. >

20 Apr 18
Innovative bike hack provides zero electricity machinery in Guatemala

Design News > Product Design

Maya Pedal transforms old bicycles into an array of devices powered by pedalling. >

19 Apr 18
How this Cape Town publication is disrupting the way we write about food

Design News > Food Design

“To us, the story of a street food vendor running a successful hole-in-the-wall shop is just as valid as a story about a celebrated chef." >

19 Apr 18
How Angelika Nyboe Andersen moved from fashion to building some of Zambia's greenest buildings

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

“Fashion has sort of given me a good foundation for construction. It has surprisingly all come together.” >

19 Apr 18
Could building with wood be the answer to high-density cities and the housing crisis?

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Timber Rising predicts a future in which wood will supersede concrete and steel. >

19 Apr 18
Robotic traffic officers direct cars on Kinshasa’s roads

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Solar-powered robotic traffic cops have been “hired” to regulate the disorderly traffic in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. >

18 Apr 18
How this young photographer is creating a career while helping to correct mis-representation

Design News > Art & Photography

Images help us to not only interpret the world around us but also challenge deep-rooted and sometimes harmful conventions. >

18 Apr 18
This Solar Grill makes cooking easier in areas with no electricity

Design News > Product Design

The cooker stores solar energy for cooking at any time of the day. >

18 Apr 18
Iwo Borkowicz on finding housing solutions that serve both tourists and locals

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

The young architect who was a Global Graduate at Design Indaba 2018 talks about his upcoming project in Tanzania. >

18 Apr 18
Copenhagenize Design Co. is making moves to see more bicycles in urban areas

Design Frontiers > Design Activism / Urban & Landscape Design

“The bicycle is the most powerful tool in our urban toolboxes to fix our cities.” >

17 Apr 18
Vukuzenzele is a digital puzzle game helping to redesign informal settlements

Design News > African Design / Interaction Design

The game uses the concept of re-blocking to reimagine the layout of an informal settlement in order to create better access to basic services. >

17 Apr 18
Ekene Ijeoma deconstructs the US national anthem as a comment on mass imprisonment

Design News > Design Activism / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

In Deconstructed Anthems, he built a software that removes notes from the US national anthem at the same rate Americans have been imprisoned. >

16 Apr 18
See the novel ways these designers are innovating healthcare practices

Design Frontiers > Product Design

From beautiful colostomy bags to a USB stick that’s also an HIV testing kit, these projects affirm that the future of healthcare is in safe hands. >

16 Apr 18
Japanese art of paper cutting inspires the next generation of bandages

Design News > Product Design

These MIT engineers believe a simple method of pattern-cutting holds great benefits in store for wound healing plasters and wearable tech. >

16 Apr 18
Sustainable planter helps trees and plants survive in arid environments

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

A product developed by Dutch startup Land Life Company increases seedling survival rates up to 95 per cent. >

16 Apr 18
The Araba Belle androgynous capes are inspired by Ghana’s coast

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Accra-based fashion brand DoNeal was inspired by the people and landscape of Ghana's Cape Coast. >

15 Apr 18
The world’s first design museum built inside a Mumbai slum

Design News > Design Activism

The artists also aim to question the word “slum” because of the ways in which it ignores the complexity and dynamism of a community. >

14 Apr 18
Can you redevelop a big city like Lagos without displacing the poor?

Design News > African Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Urban planner Lookman Oshodi seems to think it is possible. >

13 Apr 18
Scientists are working on a pill that mimics the effects of exercise

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Scientists are a step closer to developing exercise in a pill to help the chronically lazy, elderly, and those medically unable to exercise. >

13 Apr 18
MaXhosa launches rug collection and appoints new creative director

Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Changes are afoot for the acclaimed South African fashion brand. >

13 Apr 18
"We already live in a dystopian world" – Fabrice Monteiro

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Senegalese photographer Fabrice Monteiro believes we are already living in a dystopian world, on an earth that humans have made sick. >

12 Apr 18
These surreal portraits explore ideas of culture, family, tradition, and gender

Design News > Art & Photography

Ndidi Emefiele’s art addresses societal expectations of women in Nigeria. >

12 Apr 18

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