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Creative Work • 5 Mar 24

Boemo Diale is the latest recipient of the Tomorrows/Today Prize for emerging artists. >
C(hair)

Creative Work • 5 Mar 24

The Patewo Chair is inspired by the intricate beauty of the Patewo hairstyle. >
Need for speed

Creative Work • 28 Feb 24

A new book tracks South African auto-designer Keith Helfet’s career in design. >
Prize-winning portal

Creative Work • 28 Feb 24

Amina Agueznay is the winner of the 2024 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize. >
Pain phone

Creative Work • 28 Feb 24

The Panadol Pain Phone is a remote healthcare unit. >
Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2022

Creative Work • 25 Jan 22

This unique developmental programme offers gifted young creatives a platform to gain exposure and grow their careers >
Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future

Creative Work • 19 Jun 20

Larsen looked to an ancient method from the Middle Ages used to thatch roofs out of seaweed and brought it back to the present. >
Celebrate 25 years of Design Indaba with us

Design Indaba News • 23 Feb 20

Tickets are on sale now, here is everything you need to know. >
Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit

Creative Work • 2 Dec 19

The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police. >
Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy

Creative Work • 2 Dec 19

Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity. >
Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people

Creative Work • 2 Dec 19

The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired. >
Interdisciplinary architectural design practice Neri&Hu use research as a design tool

Creative Work • 2 Dec 19

The Shanghai-based Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu spoke at Design Indaba 2020. >
Using art activism to fight gender-based violence

Creative Work • 2 Dec 19

Artists and creatives came together for the 'Rise' exhibition to raise awareness about gender-based violence in South Africa. >
Li Edelkoort leads with an important green message

Design Indaba News • 29 Nov 19

Futurist Li Edelkoort hosted an inspiring new trend seminar at Design Indaba 2020. >
Sum Waste turns waste into functional products like pens

Creative Work • 29 Nov 19

Pratt University graduate Garret Benisch says he wanted to show what happens when one sees waste as an asset rather than a problem. >
The Sumo Diaper is an eco-friendly and fully biodegradable diaper

Creative Work • 28 Nov 19

The product was created by Luisa Kahlfeldt using a cellulose fiber that is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and brown algae extracts. >
Ghana’s wunderkind Ibrahim Mahama to shared his monumental artworks at Design Indaba 2020

Design Indaba News • 27 Nov 19

Ibrahim Mahama spoke at the 2020 Design Indaba Conference. >
Zana Masombuka on Ndebele Superhero as a process of reimagination

Creative Work • 26 Nov 19

“Africans need to interpret their history themselves and seek to reinvent Africa according to their own terms.” >
Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Creative Work • 20 Nov 19

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

Creative Work • 20 Nov 19

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories. >
Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change

Creative Work • 19 Nov 19

Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label. >
SPACE10 set to launch research and design lab in Delhi

Creative Work • 14 Nov 19

“We want to be where the future is...Innovation doesn’t happen in isolation, so we want to anchor our research and design process closer to the people." >
Making the world a little more colourful with Olimpia Zagnoli

Creative Work • 12 Nov 19

The Italian illustrator lives by the philosophy being kind and creating beautiful things. >
Here is a look at some innovative design coming out of Iceland

Creative Work • 12 Nov 19

The Iceland Design Award 2019 nominees include a wearable MIDI controller in the shape of a ring that sits on your index finger. >

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