News & Features

Watch

Taboo seating

Design News > African Design

Ayse Birsel and Bibi Seck turn plastic trash into trendy seating with their innovative Taboo furniture series.

20 Mar 14
Watch

Play Play Pattern

Q&A > Product Design

Deánne Viljoen and Renée Rossouw fuse their respective talents for furniture and pattern design to create a new collection of furniture for De Steyl.

19 Mar 14
Watch

Smoking design

Design News > African Design

The 500-year-old hookah pipe gets a modern makeover courtesy of Moroccan designer Hicham Lahlou.

19 Mar 14
Watch

Furniture trio

Design News > Product Design

Front showcased three contemporary furniture pieces at the 2014 Stockholm Furniture Fair.

19 Mar 14
00:30:25

Alex Atala on creativity and innovation in cuisine

Talks > Food Design

At the 2013 Design Indaba Conference Alex Atala spoke about creating dishes that sum up an entire culture.

18 Mar 14
Watch

Wash malaria away

Design News > Product Design

Moctar Dembele and Gérard Niyondiko's Faso Soap is an innovative solution for the prevention of malaria.

18 Mar 14
Watch

Housing solutions

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Urban-Think Tank develops a housing prototype for South African informal settlements that empowers residents to engage in changing their living conditions.

18 Mar 14
Watch

Roadside seating

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

The winning proposal in the Gauteng iteration of the Your Street Challenge, Twist Street has been completed.

17 Mar 14
Watch

All-terrain vehicle

Design News > African Design

Road or no road - South African-born designer Ackeem Ngwenya's innovative adaptable wheel system takes on any terrain.

17 Mar 14
Watch

Your not so weekly creative moment of Zen: The Value of Design

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

Our new "not so weekly creative moment of Zen" features an animation by the UK Design Council, highlighting the importance of design thinking to small business.

17 Mar 14
Watch

Architectural identity

Design News > Product Design

The 25s32e line is a handcrafted scrap-wood furniture collection designed by members of the Mozambican design collective Piratas do Pau.

16 Mar 14
Watch

89plus | Kyla Philander

Q&A > Music & Sound Design

Another Africa's Missla Libsekal chats to 89plus artist Kyla Philander after her presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

16 Mar 14
Watch

89plus | Bogosi Sekhukhuni

Q&A > Art & Photography

Another Africa's Missla Libsekal chats to 89plus artist Bogosi Sekhukhuni after his presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2014.

15 Mar 14
Watch

The Ukhamba lamp

Design News > African Design

Inspired by the shape of the traditional Zulu "Ukhamba" clay pot, this lamp by Ari Geva’s and Sian Eliot reinterprets it in a delicate metallic mesh.

14 Mar 14
Watch

Meet the Makers: Atang Tshikare

FilmFestFriday > Product Design

In the first edition of Creative Cape Town's Meet the Makers series you meet Atang Tshikare, a Cape Town maker and former Design Indaba Emerging Creative.

14 Mar 14
Watch

Heroines of fashion

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Adam&Eve launched their Autumn/Winter 2014 collection at Design Indaba Expo 2014. Here's a look at the desirable garments shown on the fashion ramp.

13 Mar 14
Watch

Rehabilitating Africa

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Issa Diabaté has launched a project that seeks to rehabilitate a district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast to create a city that is economically and socially viable.

13 Mar 14
00:06:12

Thomas Heatherwick: Designing the new Silo project

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Thomas Heatherwick unveiled his design for the conversion of the Grain Silo in the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.

13 Mar 14
Watch

Bee grade hotel

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Designer Etienne Hanekom is known for his small space design savvy but for clients of a new hotel at Babylonstoren he had to scale things down more than usual.

12 Mar 14
Watch

Tropical summer

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Dax Martin unveiled the Tropicale Do Sul swimwear collection for 2014 at Design Indaba Expo.

12 Mar 14
Watch

The Better Living Challenge

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Calling all designers, innovators and thinkers... Submit an idea or concept for low-income housing improvement and help make South Africa a better place.

11 Mar 14
Watch

Glowing streets

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Masashi Kawamura and his creative lab PARTY NY recently created the music video for Australian dance-rock band Cut Copy's latest track.

11 Mar 14
00:31:51

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg on shaping the future through design

Talks > Product Design

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses Synthetic Biology to look at a conflict between a bacterial world of the future and the antibacterial world of today.

10 Mar 14
00:05:00

The Street Store

Video Interviews > Design Thinking

Founded in January 2014, The Street Store by Max Pazak and Kayli Levitan is a platform that brings dignity to how people who live on the street receive clothes.

10 Mar 14

News & Features

Pages

Regulars

TwitterFollow @designindaba