South Africa | Design Indaba

Pimp My Street Kitchen rebrands informal street food vendors

Being Frank, a collective of three South African designers, is hoping to transform three informal food vendors into well-branded, mobile food trailers. >
Lilly Loompa

Furniture Designer

Using rubbish and discarded material, Lizl Naude, the inventive designer behind Lilly Loompa, creates beautiful and usable furniture pieces. >
Fun over function with product designer Jaime Hayón

Whimsical Spanish designer Jaime Hayón explores materials and storytelling through products he creates with a childlike sense of fun. >
Jaime Hayón: Curiosity is the designer's greatest tool

Curiosity is the designer's third eye, says quirky Spanish product designer Jaime Hayón. Without it there is no creativity. >
We Shall See: A photographic journey from life to death

Photographer Ian Willms repairs the fractured relationship with his father in We Shall See. >
A conversation with Jabu Nadia Newman: filmmaker, photographer and feminist

We chat to the woman behind the explosive webseries The Foxy Five. Jabu and her cast will be speaking at Design Indaba 2017. >
Trauma and the neuroplasticity of the human brain with Naama Schendar

Global Graduate Naama Schendar explores identity and trauma through a design project that encourages enhanced empathy. >
Dope Saint Jude

Musician

A queen, activist and all-around Cape Townian boss. >
Chat with Dope Saint Jude

South African rapper Dope Saint Jude has through her music challenged gender identity in the masculine realm of hip hop. >
Informal is the new normal with activist architect Alfredo Brillembourg

Venezuelan architect Alfredo Brillembourg shares his thoughts on a new urban toolbox that can help us change the way growing cities are being organised. >
Poisoned Pasts: Shedding light on SA's dubious history

New exhibition lifts the lid on apartheid government’s most dangerous programme. >
Echoes of Nostalgia by Tshepiso Mabula

These images contemplate a different kind of homecoming. >
Vera de Pont: DIY fashion – only scissors required

Dutch design graduate Vera de Pont is trying to bridge the gap between designer and consumer with fashion garments that are DIY and open source. >
The Mzansi Moodboard: Womyn are changing the game

The creator of The Mzansi Moodboard celebrates women of colour in its new yellow issue. >
Everyday South African stories told through photography

Have a look at everyday South Africa through the lens of Johannesburg-based photographer Kgomotso Neto Tleane. >
Murals in abandoned buildings by Faith47

Here are some recent images from Faith47's ongoing 7.83Hz project, which contrasts fragility in society and in our minds. >
Love Imvelo: Art on the walls of Durban

Durban creative Wesley van Eeden takes his illustrative craft outside. >
South African designer Thabo Makhetha’s new concept store celebrates Africa

Thabo Makhetha has garnered numerous awards and accolades. Her concept store promises to honour everything Africa. >
The cross pollination of fungi and fowls

A Belgian chicken artist and a Zimbabwean social entrepreneur find ways to work together through chickens and mushrooms. >
South African artists Kwesta and Ross “Dabone” McDonald capture the sound of Jozi

In a world-first, these South African creatives teamed up to create a song and music video in the new Volkswagen Polo Beats. >
A non-mechanical water device designed for rural South Africa

This 2016 design graduate designed a non-mechanical solution to hand washing in rural South Africa and is exhibiting it as part of the Dubai Global Grad Show. >
Trevor Stuurman

Creative Director • Fashion Designer

Fashion photography, creative directing, blogging, stylist – Stuurman does it all. >
Design Indaba founder shares a new way of thinking

Ravi Naidoo sits down with Wanted Magazine and tells why, to differentiate, we must be led by design. >
Chat with Trevor Stuurman

Take control of an interview with South African photographer, blogger and stylist Trevor Stuurman. >

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