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Could embracing the informality of South Africa’s chaotic taxi industry do more good than bad?

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Researcher and urban planner Zonke Mkhomazi discusses the history and future of transport in South Africa.

18 Mar 19
00:02:56

Malawian artist Samson Kambalu on the non-Western ways of crafting a narrative

Video Interviews > Film & Animation

The multimedia artist says there’s no such thing as a passive audience in Africa.

15 Mar 19
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8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion

Next Generation > Fashion & Jewellery Design

These designers were part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives Programme.

15 Mar 19
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Jalila Essaïdi’s project turns cow dung into textiles

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Designer and entrepreneur Jalila Essaïdi says we have an untapped natural resource in manure.

14 Mar 19
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4 graphic designers experimenting with colour and tackling taboos

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

These are the graphic designer who were a part of the Design Indaba Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent.

14 Mar 19
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7 Interior designers that should be on your radar

Next Generation > Product Design

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme, these young designers exhibited their work at the Design Indaba Festival 2019.

13 Mar 19
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Wacy Zacarias on taking back the African textile market

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Mozambican entrepreneur started Karingana Wa Karingana Textiles to create authentic African prints.

13 Mar 19
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The coveted items that make up the IKEA Överallt collection

Design Frontiers > Product Design

“This is how design makes the world smaller and brings people from different cultures closer together,” Bibi Seck.

13 Mar 19
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Ify Ojo tells the stories we never hear through textile design

Design Frontiers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Nigerian, Canada-based designer pays tribute to the women of Africa with Stèlà Textile.

12 Mar 19
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Adebayo Oke-Lawal on using fashion as a tool for social change

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

"I feel like fashion will be such a huge part of the way Africa shapes its future and the way Africa progresses as a people."

12 Mar 19
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Dezeen Awards 2019 are encouraging African designers to enter

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy

Dezeen Awards is the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.

11 Mar 19
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Could a synthetic brain make manufacturing automation accessible for all?

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Imagine a future in which anyone with a dream can easily turn it into a physical product.

6 Mar 19
00:04:09

Uganda's maker space aiming to transform science education in the country

Video Interviews > African Design

Science education should be hands-on and interactive, says Fundi Bots founder Solomon King Benge.

5 Mar 19/ Brand Collaboration
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Neo African artist Dennis Osadebe’s new work is begging us to Stand for Something

Design Frontiers > Art & Photography

“I ask myself again and again. What is African art? Who gets to define it? What are its limits? And where is it going?”

5 Mar 19
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#GlobalGrad Tshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises

Design News > Product Design

The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how a chance meeting landed him in Kigali.

4 Mar 19
00:08:33

#MeToo: Global Grad Ellie Frymire makes sense of the iconic movement

Design News > Design Thinking

We know that the movement was started to call out rampant abuse of women around the world, but Frymire delved into what people were really saying with #MeToo

4 Mar 19
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Interdependence II by Houtlander named Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2019

Design News > Product Design

The public has spoken! Take a look at this year’s winning design in the question of what constitutes beauty.

1 Mar 19
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Wanuri Kahiu talks Rafiki and being a reluctant activist

Design Frontiers > Film & Animation

"I am truly a creative. I start from a creative space and not from an activist space. I am like the most reluctant activist you will ever meet."

1 Mar 19
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Freyja Sewell talks tech, meditation and design for the mind

Next Generation > Product Design

We spoke to the Global Graduate before Design Indaba 2019 about making mindfulness visible.

28 Feb 19
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Watch: Designing near death with the student who created her own coffin

Video Interviews > Design Activism

Shaina Garfield is one of 12 graduates who are speaking at Design Indaba Festival 2019.

28 Feb 19
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Global Graduate Shaina Garfield on the limits of empathetic design

Design News > Product Design

Speaking on Thursday at Design Indaba Conference 2019, Shaina Garfield penned this insightful piece on design for the disabled.

28 Feb 19
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Keenan Wyrobek presents his revolutionary drone system at Design Indaba Festival 2019

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy

The world's only drone delivery service gets life-saving medical supplies and blood to the most remote and difficult to reach places on Earth.

27 Feb 19
00:10:10

Ukubutha: A township hub powered by smart architecture and green tech

Design News > Design Thinking

A sneak speak at the work of Global Graduate Nicole Nomsa Moyo who presented at Day 1 of Design Indaba Conference 2019,

27 Feb 19
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A vote for ‘beauty’: What does it mean to you?

Design News > Creative Economy

As Design Indaba 2019 kicks off, voting for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is still open! Make your choice now.

27 Feb 19

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Design News • 10 Aug 22

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Q&A • 10 Aug 22

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Q&A • 10 Aug 22

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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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