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Guiding light
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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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Running wild
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Product Design
These running shoes help spread plants and seeds in the city.
24 Jul 23
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Designing for good
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Information Design
Unique collaboration including 600 designers creates solutions for clean water and sanitation.
24 Jul 23
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Twisted towers
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Architecture & Interiors
A pair of unique towers offers incredible views of the skyline of Manhattan.
17 Jul 23
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Birds of a feather
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Design Thinking
Simulated bird calls overlap with the real thing in Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg’s latest installation.
17 Jul 23
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Identity expression
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Riley Axon uses their creative expression to digest the way the world perceives them.
17 Jul 23
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In the round
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Design Thinking
Las Vegas is home to the world’s largest sphere.
17 Jul 23
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Self-titled
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Design Thinking
The latest exhibition by renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi is autobiographical.
10 Jul 23
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Join the dots
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Urban & Landscape Design
Yayoi Kusama’s immersive exhibition features inflatable artworks on a grand scale.
10 Jul 23
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Creative outlet
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Craft
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative offers artists the opportunity to use Persian carpets as a canvas.
10 Jul 23
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Letter days
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Craft
When an alphabet saves a culture.
10 Jul 23
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Hot off the press
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Otsile Moumakoe’s artworks incorporate ‘fashion, music, movies and a little bit of history’.
4 Jul 23
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Concrete jungle
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Architecture & Interiors
David Adjaye’s first skyscraper is completed in New York.
4 Jul 23
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The new frontiers in health
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The children and education design of the future
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Algae Window by Olafur Eliasson
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19 Nov 20
Olafur Eliasson has created an Algae Window consisting of glass spheres arranged according to the structure of diatoms.
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Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions
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19 Nov 20
Yinka Ilori explores how seating systems shape human interactions with his A Trifle of Colour project.
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