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The future of fashion
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Imaginative high-tech clothing innovations are shaping the future of fashion.
22 Sep 23
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The power of art
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Architecture & Interiors
The Perelman Performing Arts Center opens on the World Trade Center site.
22 Sep 23
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Building up
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Architecture & Interiors
Adaptable modular homes present a solution to South Africa’s housing crisis.
22 Sep 23
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Let’s ride
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Product Design
The Motocompacto is an electric take on the early ’80s Honda folding scooter.
22 Sep 23
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It’s London, baby!
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Craft
The London Design Festival returns this month.
18 Sep 23
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Seeds of life
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Creative Economy
Biodegradable toilet 'paper' infused with seeds encourages plant growth.
18 Sep 23
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Desert sand
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Craft
A new outdoor sculpture features glass blown from the sands of the world’s deserts.
18 Sep 23
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Home sweet home
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Design Thinking
An architectural miniature house pays tribute to female design icons.
18 Sep 23
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Pixel prowess
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Never-before-seen digital drawings by Keith Haring are up for auction.
11 Sep 23
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Brick by brick
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Craft
LEGO introduces new bricks that teach braille.
11 Sep 23
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Emerging ecologies
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Design Thinking
A new exhibition at MoMA explores the early days of environmentalism in the 20th century.
11 Sep 23
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Trees meet tech
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Architecture & Interiors
A unique creative space in the Mexican jungle is shaped around natural structures.
11 Sep 23
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A feast for the senses
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Architecture & Interiors
Three South African venues have been shortlisted for the 2023 Restaurant & Bar Design Awards.
2 Sep 23
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Open minds
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Art & Photography
Global leaders in graphic design gather for the biggest conference of its kind in the world.
2 Sep 23
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Playing the game
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Product Design
Meet the game women never wanted to play!
2 Sep 23
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Life’s good
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Creative Economy
This Wolff Olins logo overhaul ‘brings a smile back to the world of technology’.
2 Sep 23
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Art at its peak
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African Design
Artists used land as their canvas in the highest exhibition of land art in Asia.
28 Aug 23
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Ter-reef-ic
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Information Design
This thermo-responsive gel has the potential to stop coral bleaching.
28 Aug 23
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Bridge of steel
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Architecture & Interiors
Sculptural steel arches protect this bridge from extreme weather conditions.
28 Aug 23
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Eye of the beholder
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Creative Economy
This hand-painted video game took seven years to complete.
28 Aug 23
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Women in art
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Craft
Nada Baraka is the winner of the 2023 ANNA Award recognising women artists from Africa.
20 Aug 23
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Breast in class
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Craft
These nipple prosthetics are created from hair lost in chemotherapy.
20 Aug 23
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Behind the scenes
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion designer Thabo Kopele gave audiences a glimpse into studio life at Decorex Joburg 2023.
20 Aug 23
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Let the light in
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Architecture & Interiors
A cross cut into the roof of this meditation pavilion allows sunlight to gently bathe the interior.
20 Aug 23
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The design squadron of the future
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Meet the bright young creatives who have surfaced through our three longstanding youth programmes: Emerging Creatives, Global Graduates and antenna.
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Kathryn Larsen on why seaweed is the building material of the future
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Larsen looked to an ancient method from the Middle Ages used to thatch roofs out of seaweed and brought it back to the present.
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Meet the Emerging Creatives who exhibited at Design Indaba 2020
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19 Jun 20
The Emerging Creatives programme is a product of creative inclusion created by Design Indaba and supported by the Department of Arts and Culture.
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Designers Leta and Wade on living and working together successfully
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