South Africa

Rudi de Wet

Artist • Graphic Designer

Rudi de Wet is a graphic artist based in Cape Town who creates bold, colourful works. >
Jordan Metcalf

Artist • Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Typographer

Jordan Metcalf is an award-winning designer, illustrator and artist based in Cape Town. >
Francois “Frank” van Reenen

Artist

Frank van Reenen is a Cape Town-based artist creating works that explore the dichotomy of childhood. >
All about beauty

Sunday Times features Design Indaba's Most Beautiful Objects In South Africa. >
Dani Loureiro

Graphic Designer • Illustrator

Dani Loureiro is an award-winning Cape Town-based illustrator and designer. >
Ferro Classics

Furniture Designer

Ferro Classics is a Wellington-based company that creates custom-made metalwork and metal art pieces. >
Zimele

Non-Profit Organisation

Zimele focusses on developing community self-reliance through crafts. >
Black Betty Design

Jewellery Designer

Black Betty Design offers handcrafted jewellery by designer Kristin Weixelbaumer. >
Danes on design that matters (trailer)

At Design Indaba Conference 2014, a Danish delegation talks about design that has nothing to do with chairs, coffee cups or couches. >
Experiments in the darkroom

In this exclusive interview, military man and photographer Lesedi Mogale exposes a little of himself as he talks books, porn and using a disposable camera. >
Leg Studios: The local design talent is incredible

From third person brand design to first person furniture design and the finer detail in between. >
Ackeem Ngwenya

Engineer

This South African-born designer created the Roadless wheel for use in rural areas, an innovative product that turns scarcity into opportunity. >
Protecting your design property

Adams and Adams, legal partners to Design Indaba, advise on how best to protect your designs through trademarks, copyrights and patent protection. >
Carla Kreuser

Graphic Designer • Illustrator

Carla Kreuser is a creative director at The Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town. >
Art in the Forest

Design Studio

Art in the Forest is a Cape Town-based ceramics centre managed and run by South African master potter Anthony Shapiro. >
Dreams of design activism at Design Indaba 2015

Afritorial features Design Indaba 2015 and what to expect from it. >
The ghetto romance of gqom

The flavourful sound of local music genre gqom has found an unlikely champion in British DJ Jumping Back Slash. >
#MakeChange: Retail therapy for the homeless

The Street Store extends the popular pop-up store trend onto the pavement to give homeless people the joy of shopping. For free. >
Meet Design Indaba's Ravi Naidoo, the man who helped bring the World Cup to SA

Cape Talk Bruce Whitfield interviews Design Indaba creator, Ravi Naidoo. >
Help for the homeless

Design Indaba’s 2015 creative campaign Make. Change., in partnership with The Jupiter Drawing Room and The Haven, aims to improve the lives of the homeless. >
Design Indaba presents William Kentridge’s ‘Refuse The Hour’

Between10and5 features William Kentridge's masterpiece, happening this month as part of Design Indaba Festival 2015. >
Project Phoenix

Roger, a former member of the dreaded Numbers Gang, is marked with the tattoos from his days in the gangs. He reforms his life with the help of a tattoo artist. >
How art helped a former gangster rise from the ashes

Project Phoenix is a film about a former member of the feared South African Numbers Gang and how creativity helped turn his life around. >
Make. Change. Design Indaba 2015 TV commercial

Watch the TV commercial (TVC) for Design Indaba's 2015 Festival campaign, Make. Change. >

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