Design News

On what the abandoned landmarks of Joburg tell us about the city

Design News • 6 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

A story of neglect, dereliction and emptiness in Johannesburg. >
Lagos’ Wooden Tower is an alternative to the city's reliance on concrete buildings

Design News • 4 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

The award-winning tower was designed and conceptualised by Cameroonian Architecture Firm, Hermann Kamte & Associates. >
How to build your own prosthetic using LEGO

Design News • 4 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

Carlos Arturo Torres has designed a creative prosthetic system for children to explore and empower their creativity in a playful and social way —using LEGO. >
Chilean creatives develop the first social education tool for children

Design News • 22 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

SIMA plugs into smartphones and can answer questions on subjects young people are curious about like animals, colours and food. >
Forging closer ties between African creative minds

Design News • Duration: 00:03:21 • 18 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

The Sweden@ workshop brought together young creatives from South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Colombia and Zambia. >
Matsidiso makes handmade shoes for modern customers

Product Spotlight • 15 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

The Cape Town-based label makes one-of-a-kind shoes while also giving back to its workers >
The #ArchForArch adds more public art at Constitution Hill

Design News • 15 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

On the 21st anniversary of our Constitution, an Arch for Arch is installed at Constitution Hill. >
#ArchForArch 6: Bringing the Arch for Arch to life

Design News • Duration: 00:02:54 • 9 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

In our final episode, we learn what it took to pull off this momentous challenge. >
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | December 2017

Design News • 8 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look! >
#ArchForArch 5: Bishop Margaret Vertue on Desmond Tutu and the true role of the church in South Africa

Design News • Duration: 00:01:38 • 8 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

The anglican priest shares with us her thoughts on the Arch’s legacy in the 5th episode of our series on the Arch for Arch project. >
Natasha Jen on the power of being a critical thinker in the design world

Design News • 7 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

The Design Indaba 2018 speaker has collaborated with Nike, the Guggenheim Museum, Google, Puma and MIT Architecture among many others. >
#ArchForArch 4: Albie Sachs on the remarkable legacy of Desmond Tutu

Design News • Duration: 00:01:49 • 7 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

In the fourth episode of our video series, the former judge examines his relationship with the Arch. >
#ArchForArch 3: The value of our South African Constitution

Design News • Duration: 00:01:58 • 3 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

The third episode takes us to Constitution Hill, the site of the highest court in South Africa. >
#ArchForArch 2: The Arch and his legacy

Design News • Duration: 00:02:00 • 2 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

In the second episode of the Arch for Arch series, we talk to the people of South Africa. >
#ArchForArch 1: Is democracy a design project?

Design News • Duration: 00:02:13 • 1 Dec 17 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba and Liberty partnered on the series to tell the story of the man behind the Arch For Arch monument in Cape Town. >
Cole Ndelu's arresting work tackles collective memory and the portrayal of black bodies

Design News • 30 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

The Durban-based artist and photographer challenges representation with her disruptive imagery. >
Ethiopian tech developers found a novel way to tackle waste management

Design News • 30 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

Their design relies on an ultrasonic sensor that is integrated on top of the dustbin to measure how close the waste is relative to the cover on top. >
A problem solving game console to educate the next generation of brainy nerds

Design News • 29 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

Seebox was uniquely designed with engineering education in mind. >
Used boxes designed to make toys for displaced children

Design News • 24 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

Toys, fun and play are basic needs for children. One designer is making sure it reaches disaster-stricken areas. >
6 artists we loved at the AKAA 2017

Design News • 23 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

The Also Known As Africa Art Fair (AKAA) brings together contemporary artists from Africa and the diaspora. >
Award-winning South African film shows that surfing is more than just a pastime

Design News • 22 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

It's a dramatic foray into the life of drug-plagued youth who find redemption and happiness in the sea. >
How tech hopes to improve the lives of fishermen in South Africa

Design News • 22 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

ABALOBI is designed to manage small-scale fisheries in the face of climate change. >
No Photoshop here – these eerie figures were carved entirely by hand

Design News • 21 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

"Great art stops you and holds you in its grasp for a while. It takes you out of your timeline and into its own space," says sculptor Paul Kaptein. >
Design is all-encompassing but is it always all-inclusive?

Design News • 20 Nov 17 • Sponsored Content

Hidden Women of Design is a series of talks committed to encouraging and supporting female designers. >

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Golden touch

Q&A • 9 Sep 22

Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022 >
Dokter’s orders

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art. >
The anatomy of art

Design News • 9 Sep 22

New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items >
‘A’ Okay

Design News • 9 Sep 22

Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient. >