Design News

Reviving the history of cocoa production in Ghana

Design News • 7 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

The team behind the concept will be exhibiting at Design Indaba Festival 2019 to showcase design and architecture's role in shaping place >
Kordae Henry explores mineral trade in the Congo using a sci-fi film

Design News • 7 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

The filmmaker, architect and designer is set to speak at the 2019 Design Indaba Conference. >
South African artist Faith XLVII returns to Design Indaba Conference

Design News • 6 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

She’s no stranger to Design Indaba, now Faith XLVII returns to our annual conference on creativity to present a never-before-seen performance >
Lebo Mashile to MC Design Indaba Conference for the second time

Design News • 5 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

The multi talented South African performance artist blew the audience away in 2018, here's why: >
Images of Minnesota’s immigrant community highlight the people most affected by the US immigration crisis

Design News • 4 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

“The ache for home lives in all of us…” >
The ‘smart scalpel’ that can detect cancer during operations

Design News • 4 Feb 19 • Sponsored Content

#WorldCancerDay: There are numerous cutting-edge technologies that are changing the game in cancer treatment. >
Photographer Thero Makepe brings childhood memories to life in new photo series

Design News • 30 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

“I hope my artwork also provokes viewers to reminisce about their childhood adventures and troublesome filled stories.” >
Navigating South Africa’s convoluted minibus taxi system

Design News • 28 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

The creator of the popular GauRider App, Litha Soyizwapi has plans to revolutionise the way we catch a taxi. >
Dynamic graphic design duo Tin&Ed are set to speak at Design Indaba 2019

Design News • 23 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

With a new creative outlook, Tin&Ed are continuously shaking up the industry through reinvention. >
A smart device that instantly detects Malaria

Design News • 22 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

Technical University Delft students have devised a way to diagnose malaria in quick time, using a combination of mobile tech, 3D printing and algorithms. >
Material and Immaterial Poetry: The Work of Lina Bo Bardi

Design News • 21 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

27 years after her death Brazilian designer Lina Bo Bardi is still seen as an icon in the architecture industry. >
Designers who will challenge the norm at Design Indaba Conference 2019

Design News • 21 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

From biotechnologist Markus Kayser to design critic Alice Rawsthorn, these designers have each taken their own unique approach on design and innovation. >
Thunkable turns passive consumers into proactive app developers

Design News • 18 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

The tech lets people with no coding experience create apps, democratising an otherwise elite space. >
Art, dialogue and action to transform marginalised communities

Design News • 9 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

The team at Colloqate wants to eliminate toxic government policies and Confederate infrastructure in the city of New Orleans. >
Nigerian fashion powerhouse Adebayo Oke-Lawal brings Orange Culture to Design Indaba 2019

Design News • 9 Jan 19 • Sponsored Content

Androgynous fashion isn’t new but it renews itself, and in doing so it continuously redefines culture, identity and gender politics. >
The world is changing and green material is at the forefront

Design News • 21 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year. >
Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch

Design News • 20 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks. >
Creatives that shape cultural narratives

Design News • 19 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways. >
Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss

Design News • 19 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates. >
Our top five trending stories of 2018

Design News • 17 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year. >
Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet

Design News • 13 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design. >
The 5 most searched designers in 2018

Design News • 12 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018 >
From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood

Design News • 12 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”. >
William Kentridge: the barbarity of the 'Great War' told through an African lens

Design News • 10 Dec 18 • Sponsored Content

Kentridge underlines the lunacy of the project in every part of the production – from ruined landscapes to caricatural imagery to ironic captions >

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Athi and Irma

Q&A • 24 May 22

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Eye on the prize

Design News • 22 May 22

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Q&A • 22 May 22

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Story of my life

Q&A • 16 May 22

Njabulo Maseko is on a mission to open doors for the youth to express the power of their inner creativity >