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Tales of the Dark Continent

Design News • 10 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Maxwell Mutanda illustrates surreal scenes of Africa in a series he titled “Postcards”, which he describes to us here in his own words. >
Mr Bingo's Hate Mail Kickstarter offers first class artistic abuse

Design News • 10 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Warning: This article contains offensive content. At your request, Mr Bingo will create a unique insulting message and send it to you in the mail. >
Historical landmarks digitally narrate their own stories

Design News • 10 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

European research team meSch is collecting historical data to add clever multimedia installations to cultural sites and spaces. >
A year in the life of a bench

Lookbook • 10 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Hungarian photographer’s “Life of a Bench” series captures the diversity of daily activity centered on a simple wooden structure. >
The new shoe from Adidas is rubbish

Design News • 9 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Adidas have joined the global ocean cleanup drive with their new running shoe made almost entirely from ocean waste. >
Solar technology will be used to create the world’s first underground park

Design News • 9 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

The Lowline, the world’s first underground park, have raised enough money in a crowdfunding campaign to build their Lowline Lab. >
Eleanor Lakelin’s raw wooden sculptures

Design News • 9 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

The London-based carpenter unearths nature’s wild beauty in her wooden bowls. >
The first 3D-printed car for consumers

Design News • 9 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Forget vases, jewellery and trinkets. The first street-ready 3D-printed car is imminent. >
Founder of Design Indaba receives the prestigious Sir Misha Black Medal for services to design education

Design News • 8 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Founder of Design Indaba Ravi Naidoo receives the 2015 Sir Misha Black Medal for Distinguished Services to Design Education in South Africa. >
Young Africans show off their continent using #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou

Design News • 8 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

The hashtag #TheAfricaTheMediaNeverShowsYou has gone viral on Twitter as Africans share inspiring images of their continent. >
A novel way to listen to music by Gemma Roper

Design News • 8 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Product designer Gemma Roper has designed a satisfyingly simple device that allows you to select music according to tempo or beats per minute. >
Chris the Pencil brings us a different kind of weather report

Lookbook • 7 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

A Cape Town graphic designer is documenting Cape Town’s vacillating weather patterns and his accompanying moods in a bold design-a-day project. >
Light Echoes installation arrives at the Barbican Curve Gallery

Design News • 7 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Aaron Koblin and Ben Tricklebank’s artwork “Light Echoes” envelopes the Barbican Curve Gallery in an immersive light experience. >
Toast and a hug from RCA graduate

Product Spotlight • 7 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

London-based designer Ted Wiles designed a toaster that only works when you give it a hug in an attempt to make its users happy. >
A bikini that helps protect wearers from harmful UV

Product Spotlight • 7 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Spinali Design’s new bikini helps women monitor their sun exposure responsibly. >
A glass bubble transforms in motion

Product Spotlight • 6 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

"Holon" is an intriguing glass sculpture created by Dutch designers Jetske Visser and Michiel Martens. >
Six key collections from South African Menswear Week

Lookbook • 6 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

From soft pastel hues to bold silhouettes, menswear designers in Africa have adopted a new confidence. >
Ripe Near Me takes the local organic food market online

Design News • 6 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Get fresh fruit and veg from the neighbours via an app that encourages homegrown food sharing. >
Ninjabreadboy confronts the dark drinking culture of the Winelands

Design News • 3 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

"Late Harvest" confronts the problem of alcohol dependency within the farming communities juxtaposed against the beautiful Cape Winelands. >
Lady Skollie’s latest exhibition is a manifestation of her desires

Design News • 2 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

“Ask for What You Want” is a provocative exploration of the nature of human sexual desire by Cape Town-based artist Lady Skollie. >
Pink Intruder builds a cardboard pavilion in Valencia’s town square

Design News • 2 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

The Ekklesia pavilion was assembled in the centre of a crossroads in the Spanish city of Valencia to coincide with the annual Falla festival. >
The power of Icelandic crystals are captured in the 101.86° light

Product Spotlight • 1 Jul 15 • Sponsored Content

Thomas Vailly and Laura Lynn Jansen examine the colourful nature of crystals to create layers of colourful illumination. >
Celebrating fifteen years of Serpentine Pavilions

Design News • 30 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

To celebrate 15 years of the Summer Pavilion, the Serpentine Galleries have teamed up with Pentagram to launch a digital platform and campaign. >
Sci-fi psychedelic cover art for Nozinja’s debut album

Design News • 30 Jun 15 • Sponsored Content

Los Angeles-based design duo Oval-X channels the spirit of South African townships and “Shangaan electro” to create covert art for Nozinja’s debut album. >

From the Archives

Hopeful romantic

Q&A • 24 Oct 22

Blurring disciplinary boundaries, Cape Town-based creative Mikhailia Petersen builds intricate narratives in her photo series. >
Head above water

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kenyaa Mzee’s latest visual collection is exhibiting at Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town in October. >
Parking off

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Design Indaba, Beefeater Gin and I Love The Dough collaborated on turning a pavement into a community-minded parklet. >
Modern classics

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Iconic furniture design studio Herman Miller collaborated with Danish design brand HAY on a collection that reimagines the classic Eames collection. >

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