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Things we learnt in 2016

Design News • 23 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

We share a few of the interesting, incredible and sometimes unbelievable things we learnt on Design Indaba this year. >
Minerae: Another way to touch light

Design News • 23 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This conceptual designer thinks of ways to make new connections between us and our environment. >
Beginning of Life

Design News • Duration: 02:37 • 22 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Take a look at the live production that depicted the earliest years of life on Earth. >
Spying on a thief in this fascinating documentary

Design News • 21 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Film student Anthony van der Meer made a documentary tracking his stolen phone and the thief who stole it >
Anti-Human: An avant-garde photo series from the Kolor Art Collective

Design News • 20 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Rio de Janeiro’s Kolor Art Collective present their latest photo series highlighting animal abuse >
What does flatpack furniture have to do with love?

Design News • 20 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Assisted intimacy: How to build flat-pack furniture and bond with your loved ones. >
Kate Moross: How to make mess look good

Design News • Duration: 00:00:09 • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

London-based art director Kate Moross and her studio create explosive work, often for music artists or events with a certain chaotic (messy) energy. >
How do you photograph a phobia?

Design News • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This VSCO commissioned series looks at rare phobias that disturb the mind. >
Alive by Juno Jeon

Design News • 19 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

The Netherlands-based designer enlivens his furniture pieces through movement >
Stepping up solar efforts

Design News • 16 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This sidewalk converts steps into power. >
The Torturous History of the Treadmill

Design News • Duration: 02:20 • 16 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

One of the world’s most common exercise machines has quite a draconian past. >
Dakar's Creatives: A photo series that captures the city's movers and shakers

Design News • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

In this photographic series by Jean Baptiste Joire we see Dakar's young creative agents in places in the city that inspire them. >
5 sustainable fashion brands

Design News • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

We highlight five brands making clothes ethically >
Constructive Interference in the mind

Design News • Duration: 00:53 • 15 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This sculpture demonstrates the ease with which our minds are mystified by optical illusions. >
Overview: A New Perspective of Earth

Lookbook • 14 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Benjamin Grant’s photographic tome shows the world from a thought-provoking angle. >
A safe, drug-free way to train your body to fight stress

Design News • 13 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Will we be able to control our bodies stress responses with the help of technology? >
The magical figures of the Haas Brothers

Design News • 13 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

These LA-based artists blur the lines between nature and psychedelia. >
Seeing nature in an unusual way

Design News • Duration: 01:00 • 12 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

The Flow installation of Maotik offers a unique view of the weather around us. >
Photographer captures childhood fears

Design News • 12 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Ghost stories and monsters brought to life in A Raven’s Dream. >
3600 panties focus attention on South Africa’s rape crisis

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

A trio of South African artists strung up 3600 donated panties in a public display against violence. >
This is Olafur Eliasson. We'll let him introduce himself

Design News • Duration: 00:02:11 • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson created the vast, indoor sun at the Tate in London, made rivers run green and made a waterfall flow upwards. >
The plastic bottle artworks of Veronika Richterová

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

This Czech artist demonstrates the potential to find beauty in garbage. >
Nigerian designer celebrates friendship in a new streetwear line

Design News • 9 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Onwuchekwa by Chikezie Daniel is a made-in-Nigeria high street brand. >
Battling climate change with holistic solutions

Design News • 8 Dec 16 • Sponsored Content

Farmers in Guatemala are adapting to climate change using climate-smart strategies. >

From the Archives

Steel Works

Q&A • 18 Sep 22

Johannesburg-based interior architect Daniella Kilpatrick designs steel furniture that marries form and function >
The language of plants

Design News • 18 Sep 22

The 23rd Triennale Milano features a futuristic greenhouse where visitors can experience plants' reactions to their surroundings >
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. >

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