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Joias is a product line that merges Belgian and Brazilian craftsmanship

Design News > Product Design

This project merges crafts, social engagement, design and human contact.

6 Feb 18
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Design Indaba Conference will be simulcast across several South African cities

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Joburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Potchefstroom will have venues that will be simulcasting the conference.

5 Feb 18
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Quicksee is making eye care accessible, affordable with low-cost tech

Design News > Design Activism

“We couldn’t train 100,000 new optometrists, but we could look at the technologies available and re-engineer them to be lower cost and easier to use.”

5 Feb 18
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Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | February 2018

Focus On > Product Design

We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!

5 Feb 18
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Set designer Es Devlin will take to the stage at Design Indaba 2018

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Her set designs lifted audiences into new ways of experiencing musicians like Adele, Beyonce, U2 and Kanye West on tour.

2 Feb 18
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Memory Shop gives a new twist to fine dining

Design Frontiers > Food Design

The exhibition and dining experience is collaboration between fashion designers, graphic designers, interior designers and ceramicists.

1 Feb 18
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Designer Thebe Magugu explores escapism in his latest collection

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

"I started to imagine a woman taking to the great outdoors, to escape the burdens and noise of urban living."

1 Feb 18
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Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | January 2018

Take Five > Product Design

We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!

31 Jan 18
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The value of place and heritage with Yassine Morabite

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

We caught up with the quirkily styled Moroccan artist to talk about his ever evolving career.

30 Jan 18
00:02:56

Selly Raby Kane on creating sci-fi fashion in Senegal

Video Interviews > Fashion & Jewellery Design

“I want people to dive into a universe, I want them to dive into a story and I want them to feel like they’re in a timeless space.”

30 Jan 18
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Dyslexia: The typeface that replicates the effect of reading disorders

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

“Like in any case, only once a problem is fully understood can it be solved,” says the designer.

29 Jan 18
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Digi Lab Africa aims to train aspirant digital creatives for free

Design News > Product Design

The programme is looking for creatives who want to work in the digital music, animation, virtual reality and film world.

26 Jan 18
00:33:48

Hugh Masekela in conversation with Stewart Levine

Talks > Music & Sound Design

#DIarchives: In 2011 Hugh Masekela sat down with long-time collaborator American producer, Stewart Levine to discuss his career on the Design Indaba stage.

24 Jan 18
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"We have to hold our heritage up as a mirror to the world." - Hugh Masekela

Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design

#DIarchives: In 2011 Hugh Masekela gave a surprise performance at Design Indaba. This is his interview following the performance.

23 Jan 18
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40 South African creatives to watch

Design News > African Design

Curious as to what Cape Town’s creative scene might look like in years to come? Look no further.

23 Jan 18
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American architect Josh Greene on why he chose to work in Rwanda

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

"It’s not just simply design, it’s a whole process that has really been enlightening for me.”

22 Jan 18
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Johannes Torpe talks us through his process

Design News > Product Design

The self-taught designer works within the fields of interior design, product design, industrial design and architecture.

19 Jan 18
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Films to watch at the Design Indaba Festival 2018

Design News > Film & Animation

An inner-city festival, Nightscape is partner to the annual Design Indaba Conference 2018.

19 Jan 18
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Brenda Livoi on leading Kenya’s largest innovation hub

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

The Gearbox mechanical lead chats to us about creating more space for women in the African tech sector.

19 Jan 18
00:02:45

Marko Ahtisaari on the Open Music Initiative and paying musicians fairly

Design News > Music & Sound Design

"The motivation is that music is such a universal thing. Creators need to be able to make an income," says Marko Ahtisaari.

19 Jan 18
00:03:11

Icelandic designers tackle food waste through a project called Cargo

Video Interviews > Design Thinking

The #Antenna2017 speakers were alarmed by the amount of food waste in their city and found a novel way to raise awareness.

18 Jan 18
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My Tova, the children's backpack that unfolds into a school desk

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Durban-based designer Nicki van den Aardweg says she wanted to make it easier for children who don't have access to a school desk.

18 Jan 18
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Bobbi Jene

Design News > Film & Animation

A woman's fight for independence and the dilemma of its consequences.

17 Jan 18
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Big Time

Design News > Film & Animation

Bjarke Ingels, founder of BIG and master of promotion, is the subject of a new documentary, titled BIG TIME.

17 Jan 18

From the Archives

Hollywood calling

Q&A • 16 Aug 22

This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking >
Community living

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum >
Star quality

Design News • 16 Aug 22

Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022 >
Mr Sandman

Design News • 16 Aug 22

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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