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Set designer Es Devlin will take to the stage at Design Indaba 2018

Design News • 2 Feb 18 • Sponsored Content

Her set designs lifted audiences into new ways of experiencing musicians like Adele, Beyonce, U2 and Kanye West on tour. >
Designer Thebe Magugu explores escapism in his latest collection

Lookbook • 1 Feb 18 • Sponsored Content

"I started to imagine a woman taking to the great outdoors, to escape the burdens and noise of urban living." >
The value of place and heritage with Yassine Morabite

Design News • 30 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

We caught up with the quirkily styled Moroccan artist to talk about his ever evolving career. >
Dyslexia: The typeface that replicates the effect of reading disorders

Design News • 29 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

“Like in any case, only once a problem is fully understood can it be solved,” says the designer. >
Digi Lab Africa aims to train aspirant digital creatives for free

Design News • 26 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

The programme is looking for creatives who want to work in the digital music, animation, virtual reality and film world. >
40 South African creatives to watch

Design News • 23 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

Curious as to what Cape Town’s creative scene might look like in years to come? Look no further. >
Johannes Torpe talks us through his process

Design News • 19 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

The self-taught designer works within the fields of interior design, product design, industrial design and architecture. >
Films to watch at the Design Indaba Festival 2018

Design News • 19 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

An inner-city festival, Nightscape is partner to the annual Design Indaba Conference 2018. >
Marko Ahtisaari on the Open Music Initiative and paying musicians fairly

Design News • Duration: 00:02:45 • 19 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

"The motivation is that music is such a universal thing. Creators need to be able to make an income," says Marko Ahtisaari. >
Bobbi Jene

Design News • 17 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

A woman's fight for independence and the dilemma of its consequences. >
Big Time

Design News • 17 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG and master of promotion, is the subject of a new documentary, titled BIG TIME. >
Nightscape at Design Indaba is set to be the immersive experience of the year

Design News • 17 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

The lineup includes Petite Noir, Zaki Ibrahim, Crystal Wings, DJ Steloo, Lady Venom, Alec Lomami, Guy Buttery, Shabaka and The Ancestors and more. >
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Design News • 17 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

In the film he talks about his vision of design, and shows that architecture is about more than stone and concrete. >
Afrofuturist Osborne Macharia's Magadi takes a fantastical look at a pressing issue

Design News • 16 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

At Design Indaba 2017, Osborne Macharia introduced the audience to Magadi, a new series which focusses on a group of former female circumcisers. >
Astrid Stavro on making meaning and telling stories through design

Design News • 8 Jan 18 • Sponsored Content

The award-winning designer will join a myriad of renowned creatives at the Design Indaba Conference 2018. >
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! >

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From the Archives

When pictures tell stories

Q&A • 6 Jun 22

Fashion and portrait photography allow Thulani Kubeka to paint with light. >
Photographic memory

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Influential post-war Japanese photographer’s solo exhibition highlights the pathos of the past >
Just beachy

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Tosin Oshinowo’s Coral Pavilion embraces the traditions of tropical modernism in West Africa >
For the birds

Design News • 6 Jun 22

Treehotel and BIG make a case for species co-habitation with their new collaboration, Biosphere >