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Winning formula

Design News • 20 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

David Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. >
Shapeshifter

Design News • 20 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

This New York theatre’s new branding changes for each production. >
Design for Human Rights

Design News • 13 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa. >
Something fishy

Design News • 13 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
Women making waves

Design News • 6 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

For International Women's Day, we take a look at six exceptional young women in creative industries. >
Keeping the faith

Design News • 6 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

This huge complex hosts three separate houses of worship: a mosque, a church and a synagogue. >
Stronger together

Design News • 6 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

Four Design Indaba alums are mentoring members of the 2023 Young Climate Prize cohort. >
Baby steps

Design News • 6 Mar 23 • Sponsored Content

This ordinary-looking stroller is kitted out with all sorts of AI perks. >
Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2023

Design News • 27 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Hot talent to watch – 20 rising stars are the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives. >
Fossil fuels

Design News • 27 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

An enormous hanging sculpture is made up of the amount of coal needed to power a lightbulb for a year. >
To the streets

Design News • 27 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Street artists participating in an international art festival ask ‘What if?’ in large-scale murals across Cape Town. >
Black and white

Design News • 27 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

The new edition of Ernest Cole’s monumental photobook documenting the injustices of apartheid includes previously unseen material. >
Signs of life

Design News • 20 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Giant spiderweb-like installations are symbolic of the world's shared knowledge. >
In his bones

Design News • 20 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

A Cape Town-based artist has created a flute made from a replica of his leg bone. >
Life after death

Design News • 20 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

An American startup is returning the burial process to the earth. >
Way of the worm

Design News • 20 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Architects took inspiration from worms tunnelling underground for the design of the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre. >
Fresh face

Design News • 13 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

The National Portrait Gallery unveils a new brand identity ahead of its grand reopening. >
Big impressions

Design News • 13 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

The Bjarke Ingels Group’s IQON tower in Quito, Ecuador, celebrates greenery. >
Going solo

Design News • 13 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

In SOLO, Charity Vilakazi weaves African narratives with mythology to pay homage to her heritage and the matriarchy. >
Crabwalk

Design News • 13 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

The latest driving tech solves the problems of parallel parking. >
Glass houses

Design News • 6 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

A thin layer of water between two panes of glass can reduce energy costs. >
The future of ageing

Design News • 6 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

The Designing For Our Future Selves exhibition explores how design can transform something everyone has in common: ageing. >
The Substitute

Design News • 6 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Using the rhino, Design Indaba alum Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg examines human beings’ relationship with endangered animals. >
Viva Africa

Design News • 6 Feb 23 • Sponsored Content

Malian artist Famakan Magassa has won the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize for 2023. >

From the Archives

Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory

Design News • 6 Dec 19

“It’s really important for us to make emotion that could differentiate smell in how something makes you feel when you smell it.” >
Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit

Next Generation • 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

Next Generation • 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

Next Generation • 2 Dec 19

The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired. >

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