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Gourmet Grubb on making ice cream from insect milk
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Food Design
Food designer Leah Bessa was part of this year's Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme.
3 Aug 18
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Drop Drop app helps water conservation in drought-stricken South Africa
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Information Design
A new app makes every drop of water count as South Africa’s water crisis continues.
3 Aug 18
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These five creative women are using fashion, food and more to challenge and inspire
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Creative Economy
This Women’s Month, we take a look back at some of the fiercely creative women who have graced the Design Indaba stage.
2 Aug 18
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Artist imagines colossal vertical slums in Lagos
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Urban & Landscape Design
Are slums shaping the face of Africa? Nigerian-born artist Lekan Jeyifo conceptualises the future of slums in Lagos.
2 Aug 18
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These striking images offer an alternative view of Nigerian diversity
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Art & Photography
“One of the biggest statements I try to make with my work is that there is no single Nigerian culture.”
2 Aug 18
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Meet Dutch designer, artist and entrepreneur, Joris Laarman
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Product Design
“I don’t do things with a goal in my head. I just do them to discover things.”
1 Aug 18
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Underwater couture for an uncertain future by biomimicry designer Jun Kamei
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Product Design
The Royal College of Art grad’s 3D-printed garments are for a world submerged in water.
30 Jul 18
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The innovative, unconventional and inspiring work of Droga5
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Film & Animation
Ahead of David Droga’s talk at Design Indaba 2019, we take a look at some of the more impactful work from his agency.
26 Jul 18
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Designing for urban mobility means learning from the past and predicting for the future
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Urban & Landscape Design
Trans Utopias is an exhibition which explores the way we design our transport systems in the past, present and for the future.
25 Jul 18
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Egyptian comic book artists are writing their way out of censorship
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Art & Photography
"It wasn’t just a political revolution, it was also an artistic revolution. This is reflected in the art scene of Egypt.”
23 Jul 18
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Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo appointed ambassador for Dutch Design Week 2018
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Design Activism
Alongside Laurens van den Acker and Wendy Plomp, he'll be bringing his trademark activism and sense of purpose to this year's event.
23 Jul 18
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The frenzied and thought-provoking art of Peekasso
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Information Design
This artist takes a buoyant and frantic view of cultural subjects on the internet. With potentially seizure-inducing animations. (You have been warned.)
23 Jul 18
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HUT: Architecture concept for a spiritual community
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Architecture & Interiors
This Italian design group has conceptualised a meditative hub for Tanaf Village, Senegal.
20 Jul 18
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Wikipedia's Cape Town conference tackles the issue of diversity
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African Design
Its goal is to make accessible the sum of ALL human knowledge. Here’s how the online encyclopedia plans to achieve it.
20 Jul 18
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Award-winning director Siphiwe Myeza-Mhlambi on his approach to storytelling
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Film & Animation
“I want everything that l do to allow me to change the world."
19 Jul 18
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Can you deliver affordable housing while increasing the quality?
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Casas Melhoradas aims to do this in Maputo where 80 per cent of the population is estimated to be living in informal settlements.
19 Jul 18
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Jonathan Dotse makes Virtual Reality experiences in Accra
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Jonathan Dotse is a social entrepreneur, technology evangelist, and science-fiction writer living in Accra, Ghana. He also tinkers in virtual reality.
18 Jul 18
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The Tolerance Traveling Poster Show heads to Johannesburg's Constitution Hill
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Mirko Ilić's inspired exhibition continues its tour around South Africa.
16 Jul 18
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Faith XLVII unveils new mural and Peace Manifesto in San Fransisco
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Urban & Landscape Design
"We formulated our own Manifesto, keeping the perspective as inclusive as possible. For me, the main objective is empathy. "
16 Jul 18
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Eliminating the enormous energy cost of mining cryptocurrencies
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Information Design
Estonian company Nordcoin is changing the game and making crypto-farms mobile
13 Jul 18
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The untold history behind William Kentridge’s most ambitious project to date
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Music & Sound Design
“The colonial logic toward the black participants could be summed up by: ‘Lest their actions merit recognition, their deeds must not be recorded’.”
12 Jul 18
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Leading local fashion designer Thabo Makhetha takes her blanket approach to the next level
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design Indaba Emerging Creatives alumna Thabo Makhetha is now crowdfunding to produce her own textile designs.
12 Jul 18
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How can we adjust our world to accommodate an ever-expanding global population?
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Urban & Landscape Design
These interventions could help relieve the enormous pressures felt by cities in a crowded world.
11 Jul 18
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How drones are helping in the fight against malaria
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African Design
“Where do mosquitoes go in the dry season?”
10 Jul 18
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Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum
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Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022
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Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions
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