a better world through creativity
Home
About Design Indaba
Design Indaba News
Projects
Press Room
Emerging Creatives
News & Features
Design News
Africa Now
Creative Work
Interviews
Next Generation
Design Frontiers
African Design
Design Activism
Videos
Conference Talks
Video Archive (2006 – present)
Designer Directory
Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.
Search
Design News
Amna Elshandaweely launches her new collection at Design Indaba
Design News
•
10 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
“Through design and through art we are the people that can change the world.”
>
Down to Xjabelle: Breaking the stigma of Down syndrome through fashion
Design News
•
10 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
This designer creates authentic Central American fashion for individuals with Down syndrome.
>
Can architecture help us heal from loss?
Design News
•
10 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
The ‘Mask House’ was built specifically for those coping with grief.
>
Mushroom leather: The future is fungal
Design News
•
9 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
This mushroom material can grow a whole cowhide’s worth of leather in two months.
>
Could the flying B-Droid help bees with pollination?
Design News
•
9 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
Scientist develops another robotic pollinator
>
South African photographer takes us into one of Cape Town’s oldest traditions
Design News
•
9 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
The Cape Town Minstrel Carnival is an annual celebration of renewal in Cape Town, South Africa.
>
Meet the surfers of the Gaza Strip
Design News
•
9 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
A community looking to the waves of the Mediterranean for relief.
>
The Micro Wind Turbine: A portable, collapsible energy source
Product Spotlight
• Duration: 01:21
•
9 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
This compact turbine is perfect for a nomadic lifestyle.
>
Not a plastic bag
Design News
•
6 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
India’s EnviGreen pushes 100 per cent biodegradable, edible alternatives to plastic.
>
Wheelchair-friendly baby stroller for differently-abled parents
Design News
•
6 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
A high school student has created a baby carrier wheelchair for a differently-abled parent to stroll with their newborn
>
Free the nipple: LED teats contest censorship on Facebook
Design News
•
5 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
Anonymous Spanish art collective Luzinterruptus create a carpet of glowing nipples outside Madrid's Facebook office to protest against censorship.
>
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Design News
•
5 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
This facility safeguards the building blocks of agriculture.
>
Mamaope: A jacket that detects pneumonia
Design News
•
5 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
A Ugandan graduate designed a high-tech wearable to fight the scourge of pneumonia in Sub-Saharan Africa.
>
Algorithmically designed jewellery by Nervous System
Design News
•
5 Jan 17
• Sponsored Content
Made from brass and rubber, the Corollaria collection is inspired by science and technology.
>
Modern day Dracula and the plight of immigrants
Design News
•
28 Dec 16
• Sponsored Content
Artists adapt the classic tale of Dracula to explore the immigrant rights in the United States.
>
The adventures of unconventional women
Design News
•
26 Dec 16
• Sponsored Content
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a collection of alternative bedtime stories for girls.
>
How an artist is helping rebuild Haiti
Design News
•
23 Dec 16
• Sponsored Content
The Konbit Shelter is a sustainable building project in Haiti
>
Smokeless cooking in Kenya
Design News
•
23 Dec 16
• Sponsored Content
Fighting lower respiratory infection with innovative design.
>
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.
>
Pages
« first
‹ previous
…
79
80
81
82
83
…
next ›
last »
From the Archives
Future compostable
Design News
•
13 Jun 22
Furniture designer Jonsara Ruth restores disabled pieces of furniture so they are both ecologically and ergonomically healthier
>
Hold my beer
Design News
•
13 Jun 22
Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer
>
A continental visionary
Q&A
•
13 Jun 22
Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges
>
Fast track to a modern Senegal
Design News
•
13 Jun 22
Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation
>
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1995
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Email Address
Design Indaba (select one or both)
Weekly editorial newsletter
Festival and event updates
Submit work
Africa is Now
Hopes and Impediments
Design News
·
9 May 25
Lagos to Stockholm
Design News
·
7 Mar 25
Kéré designs tribute to visionary leader
Design News
·
20 Feb 25
Design Activism
4,4,4&2
Next Generation
·
29 Aug 25
Proof of Life
Design News
·
7 Aug 25
Visible Voices
Design News
·
16 May 25
Twitter
Follow @designindaba
Tweets by @designindaba