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Night Loo offers refugee women a safer toilet option
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Product Design
Going to the toilet becomes a serious problem for refugee women when they face attack on their way to the bathroom.
24 Oct 18
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The Frame Awards 2019 will honour the world’s best interiors
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Industrial Design
The international jury includes former Design Indaba speaker, Yinka Ilori.
23 Oct 18
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Tik-Tik helps make freedom of movement easier for the visually impaired
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Product Design
The blind designer Simon Dogger who spoke at this year's Design Indaba tells us about his latest project.
23 Oct 18
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Award-winning Brazilian designer to speak on his 30-year journey
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The award-winning designer, Kiko Farkas will speak at the Design Indaba Conference 2019 on his remarkable career.
22 Oct 18
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Unscrambling Africa photo project reveals the Africa beyond the slums and safaris
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Creative Economy
Photographer Mutua Matheka launched his project to show the complex beauty of African cities.
18 Oct 18
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Entries for the 2019 PPC Imaginarium Awards are open!
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Design Thinking
The awards are open to artists, designers and architecture students living in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
17 Oct 18
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Low-cost artificial leg for amputees in developing countries
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Product Design
A prosthetic leg made from recycled plastic is about to change the lives of amputees in developing countries.
16 Oct 18
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The Final Five: antenna 2018 is right on our doorstep
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
These creatives make up the list of 20-plus graduates who will present projects that change the world of tomorrow.
16 Oct 18
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Indian artist of artefacts Sneha Suresh uses visual communication to transcend text
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Product Design
The visual artist and printmaker will be exhibiting at the first ever antenna exhibition. Here's what she had to say about her work.
13 Oct 18
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A menstrual toolkit developed for refugee women
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Product Design
This toolkit caters to every aspect of the menstrual cycle and it's reusable.
13 Oct 18
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Close Distance explores the divide between Bangladeshi women of different classes
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Design Activism
"While maidservants make the bed and dust the sofa day in and day out, they are not expected to sit or lie on them.”
12 Oct 18
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Meet the young innovators at antenna’s first exhibition
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Design Thinking
It’s an evolution of the first antenna conference which took place at Dutch Design Week last year.
12 Oct 18
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Three ways designers are preparing for disaster
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Product Design
These innovations are not only responsive but empathetic, taking a human-centred approach to solutions-based design.
12 Oct 18
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Turning sadness into power with the Tear Gun
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
Taiwanese designer transforms emotional frustration into an expression of design.
12 Oct 18
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Filmmaker and photographer Senay Berhe's unbounded approach to creativity
Design Frontiers
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Film & Animation
“I see myself as a tool to create. So what you put in, is what you get out. If I am doing well or doing something I love I feel that will be what comes out."
11 Oct 18
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Tech innovations that make dealing with mental illness a little bit easier
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Product Design
We take a look at the interesting ways design can assist with some of the symptoms associated with mental illness.
11 Oct 18
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Five things to know about Ane Crabtree, the latest Design Indaba 2019 speaker
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Film & Animation
She’s known as the designer of all of our favourite apocalyptic TV shows like Westworld and The Handmaid’s Tale.
10 Oct 18
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Five talented young designers to watch at antenna 2018
Next Generation
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Design Thinking
From communication to food to medical care, these graduates are redesigning our world multiple industries at a time.
9 Oct 18
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AGI Open Mexico ends on a fun, moving and experimental note
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Sarah Snaith takes us through the highlights of this year's conference which was recently held in Mexico City.
9 Oct 18
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Art collective tells painful stories of the displaced
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Information Design
Foundland Collective uses research, art and design to track the traumatic stories of people affected by forced migration.
8 Oct 18
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Empathy: a quality that binds design across disciplines
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Design Thinking
Here are five more antenna 2018 speakers and a little bit about why we chose them.
5 Oct 18
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Unpacking graphic design with Milton Glaser, Paula Scher, Seymour Chwast & more
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Graphic Design & Illustration
These industry elites drop some priceless gems after illustrious careers in graphic design.
4 Oct 18
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Hannah Barry has helped to revolutionise the art scene in Peckham, South London
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Design Activism
Now the gallerist and curator will be joining us on stage at next year’s Design Indaba Conference.
3 Oct 18
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Senegal’s taxi industry set to gain an eco-conscious option with the Ping! app
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Design Thinking
Could the natural evolution of public transport include a fleet of hybrid cars for every city?
2 Oct 18
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