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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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Es-sential reading
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A colossal book captures Design Indaba alum Es Devlin’s 30-year multidisciplinary career.
11 Aug 23
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Second chances
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Architecture & Interiors
Adaptive reuse breathes new life into old buildings.
11 Aug 23
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Guiding light
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Design Thinking
The Olympic torch for the 2024 games has been unveiled.
11 Aug 23
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Let them eat cake
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Craft
This spectacular wedding-cake pavilion is a celebration of love.
11 Aug 23
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Threads that bind us
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Craft
A hand-embroidered South African scene was transformed into a wallpaper.
7 Aug 23
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Hard at work
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Design Thinking
The world’s biggest office building is a one-stop destination for over 60 000 professionals.
7 Aug 23
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Star tech
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Product Design
Turn your smartphone into a telescope.
7 Aug 23
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Ken’s dream house
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Design Thinking
A life-sized Barbie dream house gets a Ken-inspired Malibu makeover.
7 Aug 23
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Brooklyn, baby
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Product Design
A tribute to Jay-Z takes over a public library in New York.
30 Jul 23
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Goal oriented
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Art & Photography
Design Indaba Emerging Creative alum Thebe Magugu designed the new Orlando Pirates kit.
30 Jul 23
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In action
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Architecture & Interiors
Four world-changing winners were announced at the 2023 UN SDG Action Awards.
30 Jul 23
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Seeing stars
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Architecture & Interiors
Architecture firm Snøhetta designed a spiralling planetarium and observatory in France.
30 Jul 23
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An architecture icon
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Architecture & Interiors
Pakistan’s first female architect has shown us how architecture can change lives for the better.
24 Jul 23
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Metamorphosis
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Craft
‘I always make clothes that I would want to wear … forever,’ says 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Shamyra Moodley.
24 Jul 23
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