Creative Work | Design Indaba

Here's what makes this small Iranian town one of the world's most walkable

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Due to the unusual layout, no motor vehicles are permitted to enter Masuleh. >

14 Mar 18
David Adjaye designs Ghana’s new National Cathedral

Design Frontiers > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

To be built in the city of Accra, the project marks Adjaye Associates’ first major project in the capital. >

14 Mar 18
The Paper Water Bottle sits at the intersection of branding and sustainable design

Design News > Design Activism / Product Design

Another product you could be using instead of plastic. Check out The Paper Water Bottle. >

13 Mar 18
Illume photographers take you on an aerial tour of Rwanda

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Creative Economy

"There is beautiful nature in Rwanda, but it's very important to know and see the rest." >

13 Mar 18
How can architecture aid those who experience exclusion?

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

This new initiative seeks to explore urban environments from the perspective of a teenage girl. >

13 Mar 18
Tatsuya Honda's hairpin enables you to feel sounds

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Product Design

This graduate of the Future University Hakode has designed a more intuitive aid for hearing impaired users that translates sound to vibration. >

13 Mar 18
Photographer Victoria Krundysheva breaks down social media culture in latest collection

Design News > Art & Photography

In the age of publishing retouched moments of life online and curating our appearances, how connected to each other are we really? >

13 Mar 18
27 young South African creatives to watch

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Part of our Emerging Creatives 2018, these are just some of the young designers you should have on your radar for South African talent. >

12 Mar 18
Food designer Chloé Rutzerveld turns waste into healthy treats

Design News > Food Design

This edible innovation addresses wastage in the food industry – with delicious results. >

12 Mar 18
Oxygene is the plant-based green tyre of the future

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show, this innovation could become the norm for automobile design in years to come. >

12 Mar 18
Code artist Zach Lieberman launches Weird Type in collaboration with Design Indaba

Design News > Creative Economy / Interaction Design

“How does typography change when it is spatial, when we can move around it and it exists in 3D space?” >

12 Mar 18
An industrial design graduate has created an Emotional First Aid Kit

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Rui Sun tackles the question, “Why do so many products ease physical pain and so few treat emotional stress?” >

12 Mar 18
Art as an exploration of the self and an interrogation of the world with Buhlebezwe Siwani

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

"I’ve always said if art doesn’t engage socially what are you making it for?" >

10 Mar 18
Sweden’s Self-Built City offers solutions to the country’s housing shortage

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

The collaborative project seeks to turn refugees into self-sufficient builders. >

9 Mar 18
Michael Candy’s 3D-printed flowers could save dwindling bee populations

Design News > Industrial Design

This design intervenes in the risk-prone world of pollination using robotic flowers. >

9 Mar 18
Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi awarded the 2018 Pritzker Prize

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Doshi believes the award will draw attention to the capacity for architecture to trigger social upliftment. >

9 Mar 18
Nike designs shoebox made out of recycled milk containers and coffee lids

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The sportswear giant teamed up with Taiwanese architect and engineer Arthur Huang to create multi-functional shoe boxes. >

9 Mar 18
Waterstudio’s Parthenon seawall doubles as natural energy generator

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

This Dutch design company explores water-based solutions for urban planning. >

9 Mar 18
Aiming for Democratic Architecture exhibition taps into the role of architecture in democracy

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

At the exhibition, held in Stockholm recently, Design Indaba chatted to MYCKET, a women-led design firm. >

8 Mar 18
Two Cape Town brothers on starting one of the world's biggest online learning platforms

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Information Design

"Rather than tearing down the structures that exist, it is far better to use the best of the old and the best of the new." >

8 Mar 18
On the dying practice of female facial tattoos in North Africa

Design News > Art & Photography

Photographer Yumna Al-Arashi travelled to villages in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia to document the disappearing custom of female facial tattoos. >

8 Mar 18
Replace pads, tampons and cups with this eco-friendly alternative

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Activism / Product Design

One WUKA is said to replace 100 tampons or pads from polluting the planet. >

8 Mar 18
Lebo Mashile breathes inner life into the story of Saartjie Baartman

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

“For the first time, Saartjie's life as an artist and as a performer – because she defined herself as an artist – made a lot of sense to me." >

7 Mar 18
Swedish design gallery celebrates the monumental failures of the product design world

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

We so often learn about the breakthroughs, the triumphs and innovations of creativity – what about the blunders? >

7 Mar 18

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