a better world through creativity
Home
About Design Indaba
Design Indaba News
Projects
Press Room
Emerging Creatives
News & Features
Design News
Africa Now
Creative Work
Interviews
Next Generation
Design Frontiers
African Design
Design Activism
Videos
Conference Talks
Video Archive (2006 – present)
Designer Directory
Our database of African and international creatives and companies making waves in the design world.
Search
Watch
Artwork for equity
Design News
>
Design Activism
These original postcards promote inclusion, equity, liberation, and justice for all races.
19 Apr 17
00:03:18
Telling positive African stories through photography
Video Interviews
>
Art & Photography
An interview with Senegalese photographer Abdoulaye Ndao.
18 Apr 17
Watch
The Mashambas Skyscraper
Design News
>
Design Activism
A skyscraper conceived as an educational centre and marketplace for new agricultural communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
18 Apr 17
Watch
Scientists discover a way to harvest fresh water from air
Design Frontiers
>
Product Design
This device also works in arid regions
18 Apr 17
Watch
Farmerline uses SMSes to empower small-scale farmers in Ghana
Design News
>
Information Design
Ghanaian tech provider, Farmerline offers innovative mobile communication and farming information services to literate and illiterate rural farmers
18 Apr 17
Watch
Mateusz Urbanowicz’s Tokyo Storefront series
Design News
>
Art & Photography
These delightful illustrations document the changing face of the Japanese capital.
18 Apr 17
Watch
Eddie Opara: Always a work in progress
Video Interviews
>
Graphic Design & Illustration
A brief jaunt through design, part three. Today we share a short interview with innovative graphic designer Eddie Opara.
17 Apr 17
Watch
DuoSkin: Tattoos that work as on-skin interfaces
Design News
>
Product Design
MIT have developed DuoSkin, a metallic tattoo that enables you to use your skin as an interface to control devices, receive data and communicate.
14 Apr 17
Watch
Giorgia Lupi: Drawing from life
Design News
>
Information Design
A brief jaunt through design, part two. Today we share a short interview with emotional data translator Giorgia Lupi.
14 Apr 17
Watch
Nelly Ben Hayoun: An impolite future hero
Design News
>
Interaction Design
A brief jaunt through design, part one. Today we begin with a designer who tries to put volcanoes in your living room.
13 Apr 17
Watch
Turning shipping containers into renewable solar units
Design Frontiers
>
Product Design
SolarTurtle is an innovative green energy product that relies solely on battery-based distribution for rural electrification.
13 Apr 17
Watch
Virtual Reality App offers better clinical care to cancer patients
Design Frontiers
>
Product Design
Oncomfort finds an innovative way to help cancer patients self-manage stress, anxiety and pain through evidence-based psychological interventions in VR.
13 Apr 17
Watch
Zadok Ben-David makes art out of all the people he saw but never met
Design News
>
Art & Photography
The London-based artist’s work laments the human race’s growing isolation.
13 Apr 17
Watch
The Illegal Project by Daniel Obasi
Design News
>
Art & Photography
These stunning images look at the Nigerian LGBTQ community forced to hide their sexual orientation.
13 Apr 17
00:01:40
Free language education for the world
Video Interviews
>
Information Design
Tech entrepreneur Luis von Ahn created an app that enables anyone, anywhere to learn a language for free.
12 Apr 17
Watch
The surreal self-portraits of Izumi Miyazaki
Design News
>
Art & Photography
The young Japanese photographer’s work makes the mundane curious.
12 Apr 17
Watch
A card game for positive vibes
Design News
>
Product Design
If a random act of kindness comes into your life, pay it forward.
12 Apr 17
Watch
The APSARA drone disintegrates once it reaches its destination
Design Frontiers
>
Product Design
Introducing the ‘Ikea of drones”.
12 Apr 17
Watch
Manooi: An atelier that sculpts light
Design News
>
Craft
Hungarian lighting design studio Manooi create bespoke crystal chandeliers with cutting edge style.
12 Apr 17
/ Advertorial
Watch
Self-portraiture by Zanele Muholi
Design News
>
Art & Photography
Visual activist Zanele Muholi turns the camera on herself.
11 Apr 17
Watch
Woza: The story of an African Surfer
Next Generation
>
Film & Animation
"Woza" tells the story of an African surfer who has been taken as a lover by the African water spirit Mami Wata.
11 Apr 17
Watch
This animated series is a hilariously relatable confrontation of gender stereotypes
Design News
>
Film & Animation
2D animator and filmmaker Caress Reeves’ shorts address gendered reactions on the current culture.
11 Apr 17
Watch
We like this border because it wouldn’t really be a border at all
Design News
>
Urban & Landscape Design
Trump’s border wall reimagined as a regenerative co-nation shared by both Mexico and the U.S
11 Apr 17
Watch
The robots are coming!
Design News
>
Industrial Design
AMP Robotics is revolutionising the waste processing industry by using robots for recycling – this age-old problem now has a new solution!
10 Apr 17
Pages
« first
‹ previous
…
104
105
106
107
108
…
next ›
last »
From the Archives
Hollywood calling
Q&A
•
16 Aug 22
This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking
>
Community living
Design News
•
16 Aug 22
Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum
>
Star quality
Design News
•
16 Aug 22
Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022
>
Mr Sandman
Design News
•
16 Aug 22
Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions
>
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
1999
1995
Sign up to our newsletter
Sign up to Design Indaba Weekly for the latest design news and inspiration. Sign up to Design Indaba News for updates on Design Indaba events and projects.
Email Address
Design Indaba (select one or both)
Weekly editorial newsletter
Festival and event updates
Submit work
Africa is Now
Hopes and Impediments
Design News
·
9 May 25
Lagos to Stockholm
Design News
·
7 Mar 25
Kéré designs tribute to visionary leader
Design News
·
20 Feb 25
Design Activism
OnCue
Design Frontiers
·
14 Nov 25
A HomeMore Project
Design News
·
14 Nov 25
Ocean Bonds
Design News
·
9 Oct 25
Twitter
Follow @designindaba
Tweets by @designindaba