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Design Indaba x Radisson Blu Hotel
Design Indaba News
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2 Aug 18
Design Indaba Conference 2018 delegates can take advantage of this special accommodation offer
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Pentagram’s Natasha Jen: “Design is not a monster you ‘unleash’ to fix the world”
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Pentagram partner Natasha Jen makes her feelings on business buzzwords, simplistic flow diagrams and sticky note brainstorm sessions very clear...
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#DesignIndaba: Notes on Design Indaba 2018
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
In spite of the physical space feeling more dreary than usual, Design Indaba 2018 ensured a number of strong and critical speakers.
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Lebo Mashile
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
The much-loved poet tells Nataal about her new theatre piece, which re-examines the story of Saartjie Baartman.
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Design Indaba 2018: More than a soundbite
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Seven speakers whose insights transcended a character limit at Cape Town's annual festival of creativity
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Finding our humanity and breaking barriers through artistic intervention
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
The global travelling exhibition Tolerance comes to Constitution Hill, in Johannesburg
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Peter Veenstra to build dome of plants at Design Indaba venue in Cape Town
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Dutch landscape architect Peter Veenstra has revealed plans to build a plant-covered bamboo sphere in Cape Town's Luthuli Plaza.
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6 trail-blazing design graduates you should know
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018: These exciting young designers are pushing creative boundaries.
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24 hours with Morag Myerscough at Design Indaba
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Here, exclusively for It’s Nice That, Morag shares her Design Indaba highlights.
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How I got here: Edel Rodriguez
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Creative Review's Salonee Gadgil speaks to Design Indaba Conference speaker, Edel Rodriguez
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Design Indaba 2018: A copywriter's expert opinion
Design Indaba News
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17 Jul 18
Jeff Harvey details his experience of Design Indaba Conference 2018 for Bizcommunity.
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The world’s most awarded “Adman” to headline at Design Indaba Conference 2019
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
Global advertising superstar David Droga will take centre stage at the renowned Design Indaba Conference.
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Emerging Creative alumna Thabo Makhetha launches crowdfunder
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
Design Indaba Emerging Creatives alumna Thabo Makhetha is now crowdfunding to produce her own textile designs.
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Visi favourites: Design Indaba 2018
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
Here is a selection of just some of the inspiring things we saw and heard about during the three-day festival of creativity in Cape Town.
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From Design Indaba to a youthful population: Africa is on (creative) fire!
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
At WGSN last week, we held intense seminars and workshops sharing trends from our global editors, and, from these, one thing became certain:
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5 key trends from Design Indaba
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
And what brands can learn from Africa's most creative conference.
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Design Indaba 2018: A festival of optimism in the face of ecological turmoil
Design Indaba News
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16 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018 once again lured a roster of international designers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists to Cape Town.
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5 things to know about GetSmarter as e-learning firm turns 10
Design Indaba News
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13 Jul 18
Here's what you need to know about online education company GetSmarter.
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Design Indaba 2018's celebration of creativity
Design Indaba News
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13 Jul 18
Design Indaba 2018 welcomed creative minds from around the world to a colourful celebration of creativity
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Décor trends say we'll be buying less and spending more time making our homes our sanctuaries
Design Indaba News
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13 Jul 18
Our nesting instincts are strong.
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Before Beyoncé there was Saartjie Baartman
Design Indaba News
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13 Jul 18
Spoken word artist, performer & poet Lebo Mashile speaks with Charl Blignaut about Saartjie vs Venus, a stage production that rewrites the Sarah Baartman story.
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Braille clothing is making it easier for the visually impaired to get dressed
Design Indaba News
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13 Jul 18
Getting dressed when you’re blind presents challenges that those of us privileged enough to have sight don’t understand.
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Looking to Afrofuturism 3.0
Creative Work
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29 Jun 18
"Before you actually physically pursue freedom or build a better future you have to imagine it first."
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Lebo Mashile on her life and how poetry and books became a lifeline
Conference Talks
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9 May 18
“Criss-crossing, jumping identities has been the story of my life.”
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