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The future of fashion
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22 Sep 23
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Imaginative high-tech clothing innovations are shaping the future of fashion.
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The power of art
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22 Sep 23
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The Perelman Performing Arts Center opens on the World Trade Center site.
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Building up
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22 Sep 23
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Adaptable modular homes present a solution to South Africa’s housing crisis.
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Let’s ride
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22 Sep 23
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The Motocompacto is an electric take on the early ’80s Honda folding scooter.
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It’s London, baby!
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18 Sep 23
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The London Design Festival returns this month.
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Seeds of life
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18 Sep 23
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Biodegradable toilet 'paper' infused with seeds encourages plant growth.
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Desert sand
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18 Sep 23
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A new outdoor sculpture features glass blown from the sands of the world’s deserts.
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Home sweet home
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18 Sep 23
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An architectural miniature house pays tribute to female design icons.
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Pixel prowess
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11 Sep 23
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Never-before-seen digital drawings by Keith Haring are up for auction.
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Brick by brick
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11 Sep 23
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LEGO introduces new bricks that teach braille.
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Emerging ecologies
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11 Sep 23
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A new exhibition at MoMA explores the early days of environmentalism in the 20th century.
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Trees meet tech
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11 Sep 23
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A unique creative space in the Mexican jungle is shaped around natural structures.
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A feast for the senses
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2 Sep 23
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Three South African venues have been shortlisted for the 2023 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
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Open minds
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2 Sep 23
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Global leaders in graphic design gather for the biggest conference of its kind in the world.
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Playing the game
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2 Sep 23
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Meet the game women never wanted to play!
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Life’s good
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2 Sep 23
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This Wolff Olins logo overhaul ‘brings a smile back to the world of technology’.
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Art at its peak
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28 Aug 23
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Artists used land as their canvas in the highest exhibition of land art in Asia.
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Ter-reef-ic
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28 Aug 23
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This thermo-responsive gel has the potential to stop coral bleaching.
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Bridge of steel
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28 Aug 23
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Sculptural steel arches protect this bridge from extreme weather conditions.
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Eye of the beholder
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28 Aug 23
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This hand-painted video game took seven years to complete.
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Women in art
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20 Aug 23
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Nada Baraka is the winner of the 2023 ANNA Award recognising women artists from Africa.
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Let the light in
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20 Aug 23
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A cross cut into the roof of this meditation pavilion allows sunlight to gently bathe the interior.
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Es-sential reading
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11 Aug 23
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A colossal book captures Design Indaba alum Es Devlin’s 30-year multidisciplinary career.
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Second chances
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11 Aug 23
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Adaptive reuse breathes new life into old buildings.
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From the Archives
The design squadron of the future
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25 Jun 20
Meet the bright young creatives who have surfaced through our three longstanding youth programmes: Emerging Creatives, Global Graduates and antenna.
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Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future
Next Generation
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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.
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Meet the Emerging Creatives who exhibited at Design Indaba 2020
Design Frontiers
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19 Jun 20
The Emerging Creatives programme is a product of creative inclusion created by Design Indaba and supported by the Department of Arts and Culture.
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Designers Leta and Wade on living and working together successfully
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The couple talked about honesty, creativity, their project Complements and the universal strangeness of love.
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