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Art & Photography
This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year.
27 Mar 23
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The art bias
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Craft
The aim of this Bangalore museum collection is to reframe ideas of Indian art.
27 Mar 23
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Wayfinder
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Art & Photography
For 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kamil Adam Hassim, nature is the ultimate inspiration.
27 Mar 23
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Printed pavilion
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This climate-adaptable pavilion is 3D-printed from recycled plastic.
27 Mar 23
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Print first
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Creative Economy
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative is a storyteller at heart.
20 Mar 23
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Japanimation
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Film & Animation
Wooden puppets come to life in an action-packed stop-motion film about revenge.
20 Mar 23
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Winning formula
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Architecture & Interiors
David Chipperfield has been selected as the 2023 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
20 Mar 23
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Shapeshifter
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This New York theatre’s new branding changes for each production.
20 Mar 23
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Design for Human Rights
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Art & Photography
In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa.
13 Mar 23
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To the world
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Architecture & Interiors
Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future.
13 Mar 23
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Something fishy
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Architecture & Interiors
This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing.
13 Mar 23
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Full of beans
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Design Thinking
Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture lies ‘squashed’ under a high-rise building.
13 Mar 23
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Women making waves
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African Design
For International Women's Day, we take a look at six exceptional young women in creative industries.
6 Mar 23
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Keeping the faith
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Architecture & Interiors
This huge complex hosts three separate houses of worship: a mosque, a church and a synagogue.
6 Mar 23
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Stronger together
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Industrial Design
Four Design Indaba alums are mentoring members of the 2023 Young Climate Prize cohort.
6 Mar 23
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Baby steps
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Product Design
This ordinary-looking stroller is kitted out with all sorts of AI perks.
6 Mar 23
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Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2023
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Urban & Landscape Design
Hot talent to watch – 20 rising stars are the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives.
27 Feb 23
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Fossil fuels
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Product Design
An enormous hanging sculpture is made up of the amount of coal needed to power a lightbulb for a year.
27 Feb 23
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To the streets
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Design Thinking
Street artists participating in an international art festival ask ‘What if?’ in large-scale murals across Cape Town.
27 Feb 23
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Black and white
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Art & Photography
The new edition of Ernest Cole’s monumental photobook documenting the injustices of apartheid includes previously unseen material.
27 Feb 23
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Signs of life
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Design Thinking
Giant spiderweb-like installations are symbolic of the world's shared knowledge.
20 Feb 23
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In his bones
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Craft
A Cape Town-based artist has created a flute made from a replica of his leg bone.
20 Feb 23
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Life after death
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Urban & Landscape Design
An American startup is returning the burial process to the earth.
20 Feb 23
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Way of the worm
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Architecture & Interiors
Architects took inspiration from worms tunnelling underground for the design of the Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre.
20 Feb 23
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Exploring the connection between aromas and our memory
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Antya Waegemann redesigns the rape kit
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2 Dec 19
The 'When No One Believes You' rape kit includes six different design interventions for use by victims, nurses and the police.
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Ignis uses household materials to create a safe, reliable source of energy
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2 Dec 19
Antenna 2019 speaker Tobias Trubenbacher created Ignis to help provide clean and affordable energy to those without access to electricity.
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Camila Chiriboga on fashion that brings dignity to differently-abled people
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The antenna 2019 speaker created Veº, an inclusive system of fashion for the blind and visually impaired.
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