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Waterlight Converts Water into Energy with its Innovative Seawater-Powered Lamp

Design News > Product Design

An innovation designed to serve communities with no access to electricity, WaterLight makes use of an available natural resource.

3 May 21
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A Home 3D-Printed Out of Earth? Mario Cucinella Architects Teams Up with WASP to Create TECLA

Design News > Design Activism

Ancient earth and 21st century technology come together as housing for the future.

3 May 21
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Can Face Masks Be Fashionable? Should They Be? Kat Van Duinen Contemplates These Pandemic-Born Questions

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Cape Town-based fashion designer Kat van Duinen tailors a sartorial response to the pandemic.

3 May 21
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Cabin Fever: Moriko and Living in Nature Inspire with Myriad Ways to Interpret Low-Key Country Living

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Moriko Cabins are prompted by the need to connect with nature.

3 May 21
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Inspiring Spaces

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The sweet spot where form meets function.

30 Apr 21
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Yinka Ilori’s New 20-Piece Homeware Collection Merges African and English Customs

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Speaker Yinka Ilori’s bright and colourful new homeware incorporates his signature motifs.

26 Apr 21
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Sweden’s Onmateria Imagines a Future for the Hotel Industry hat’s Lighter on the Planet

Design News > Product Design

Green Box – an innovative biodegradable system of hotel amenities.

26 Apr 21
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The Ideal City – A Crowd-Sourced Recipe for Building the Cities of the Future

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

SPACE10 and gestalten’s new book release asks experts how to create better cities.

26 Apr 21
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Neri Oxman’s Silk Pavilion II Turns Metamorphosis into Art

Design News > Design Thinking

Built by silkworms – a cross-species collaboration.

26 Apr 21
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The Pen is Mighty

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Past meets present in a powerful new era of illustration.

23 Apr 21
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Tin & Ed’s virtual playground with the Rockefeller Center in New York City will Transport and Inspire

Design News > Interaction Design

Tin & Ed straddle the divide between art, nature and technology with their latest interactive installation.

21 Apr 21
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Diébédo Francis Kéré wins Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal for Architecture

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Design Indaba Speaker Diébédo Francis Kéré produces architectural work that inspires and unites.

21 Apr 21
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Creative Campus: DI Speaker Annabelle Selldorf’s Role in the New LUMA Arles

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Selldorf Architects transforms railway structures into exhibition and performance spaces.

20 Apr 21
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Skinny LaMinx Chats to us about a New Collaboration Inspired by the Sea Point Promenade

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Heather Moore has based her new Skinny LaMinx range on one of Cape Town’s most celebrated seaboard spaces.

20 Apr 21
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Vincent Callebaut’s Pollinator Park Brings People into Harmony with Nature’s Pollinators

Design News > Interaction Design

This futuristic VR experience by the world-renowned ‘archiobiotect’ has a special focus on pollinators.

20 Apr 21
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A Future Vision

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

These next-gen artists are expanding our horizons.

16 Apr 21
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Arch for Arch

Q&A > Design Activism

Piyushi Kotecha, CEO of the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation talks to Design Indaba founder, Ravi Naidoo on how and why the Arch for Arch was created.

16 Apr 21
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Artists Wage War on Waste

Design News > Art & Photography

Artists Thirza Schaap and Dionnys Matos create beauty from waste.

15 Apr 21
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Run(a)way success: Lukhanyo Mdingi

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Lukhanyo Mdingi is competing on the international luxury stage.

15 Apr 21
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A Brighter Future, Together

Design News > Design Activism

Morag Myerscough’s recent interventions with the Ilukuluku Art Collective have brought colour and joy to the communities they touch.

15 Apr 21
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Table Talk with Thabisa Mjo

Design News > Craft

Thabisa Mjo of Mash T. Design Studio launches new ceramics collection.

15 Apr 21
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Capture the Moment

Design News > Art & Photography

Meet the photographers behind the lens of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Class of 2021.

8 Apr 21
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Fashion’s Fresh Faces

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Meet the fashionistas of the 2021 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives

31 Mar 21
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Meet the design stars of tomorrow

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Design Indaba announces the Emerging Creatives Class of 2021.

25 Mar 21

From the Archives

Invented reality

Design News • 10 Aug 22

Design Indaba alumnus Nicolás Kisic Aguirre’s latest project turns linguistic disobedience into an immersive experience >
En vogue

Q&A • 10 Aug 22

Design Indaba Emerging Creative Tshepiso Lekganyane has found her passion at the intersection of fashion and art >
Alter ego

Q&A • 10 Aug 22

Thandiwe Msebenzi’s Radical Makazi Instagram series will be exhibited at Blank Spaces in Woodstock, Cape Town >
Metamorphosis

Design News • 10 Aug 22

Design Indaba alumnus Shaakira Jassat created a collection of trick glasses inspired by social distancing and caterpillars for the Nationaal Glasmuseum >

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