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Enough White Tea Cups: a documentary that examines solutions for global challenges

Design News > Film & Animation

The film highlights the work of the INDEX: Design to Improve Life® organisation and will be screened at Nightscape 2018.

2 Nov 17
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Researchers develop EDCC, a new earthquake-resistant concrete

Design News > Product Design

The malleability of this eco-friendly concrete aims to withstand earthquake pressure.

2 Nov 17
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A new hydroelectric canal reuses fresh and marine water to provide electricity

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

This Hydroelectric project reconnects and reuses fresh and marine water systems.

1 Nov 17
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Morag Myerscough on giving spaces character and sensitivity through the use of colour

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Design Indaba Festival 2018 speaker will turn the Artscape Piazza into a wonderland with her colourful structure.

1 Nov 17
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Yami-Ichi disrupts how the price of art is valued

Design News > Creative Economy

Here, money is powerless and instead the public is invited to barter skills, services and objects for a piece of art.

31 Oct 17
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Eindhoven University of Technology unveils world’s first 3D printed bridge

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

Built with cyclists in mind, the bridge can withstand loads up to two tonnes.

30 Oct 17
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Fernando Laposse wins at the Future Food Design Awards

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The awards, which were held during Dutch Design Week, had a total of 73 projects from 24 different countries.

28 Oct 17
00:34:17

Olafur Eliasson talks design that has real-world significance

Talks > Design Thinking

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson gives us his take on what functional design means and the newest member of the Little Sun family.

28 Oct 17
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Space10’s pop-up brings microgreens to congested urban spaces

Design News > Food Design

This integrated salad bar could popularise hydroponic food farming where traditional agriculture is unavailable.

27 Oct 17
00:12:16

Osborne Macharia breathes life into his fantastical, fictional imagery

Talks > Art & Photography

The self-taught Kenyan photographer takes the Design Indaba audience on a mesmerising journey of fiction, fantasy and narrative.

27 Oct 17
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Sketchcase transforms your Laptop into a portable whiteboard

Design Frontiers > Product Design

The perfect laptop skin for creatives.

26 Oct 17
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The smart bicycle dock by engineering student Mardu Swanepoel

Next Generation > Product Design

The South African student designed a docking station to keep your bicycle safe in theft-prone areas.

26 Oct 17
00:32:56

Can we use our own data to become better human beings?

Talks > Information Design

Data designer Giorgia Lupi talks us through her experience of painstakingly collected personal data.

26 Oct 17
00:02:33

Taking African animation and storytelling to the world

Video Interviews > Film & Animation

In this interview, Triggerfish's Stuart Forrest shares his plans to educate budding creatives and take African stories to the international stage.

25 Oct 17
00:25:35

How Stuart Forrest built the award-winning Triggerfish

Talks > Film & Animation

Triggerfish CEO talks Revolting Rhymes, endurance in the animation industry and inspiring empathy in young people.

25 Oct 17
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David Adjaye, Ron Arad to design new Holocaust Memorial in London

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The National Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre will honour victims and survivors of Nazi persecution.

24 Oct 17
00:03:47

Andile Dyalvane, gt2P on creating The Wishing Wall

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

The Chilean design group and the South African ceramicist on their unlikely partnership.

23 Oct 17
00:26:32

Andile Dyalvane, gt2p in never-before-seen installation at Design Indaba 2017

Talks > Craft

An unexpected link emerges between the Chilean design group and the South African ceramicist.

23 Oct 17
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Scientists say they’ve overcome one of the final barriers to making lifelike robots

Design Frontiers > Product Design

“It’s the closest artificial material equivalent we have to a natural muscle.”

20 Oct 17
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Angolan visual artist on opening up the conversation about a new African identity

Design News > Art & Photography

Kiluanji Kia Henda is the first African artist to receive the Frieze Artist Award.

20 Oct 17
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Urban trees as sustainability power tools for cities

Design News > Design Thinking

If trees are providing so many benefits, why are cities letting this natural resource dwindle?

19 Oct 17
00:22:24

Multidisciplinary artist Robin Rhode brings his drawing process to life

Talks > Art & Photography

The South African born artist and his “doppelgänger” light up the Design Indaba stage.

19 Oct 17
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Self-taught inventor powers a village in West Africa using hydro energy

Design News > Industrial Design

He built a micro-hydroelectric dam for his village using his savings of about R78 000.

18 Oct 17
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Speak up, speak out, speak back: Africa Architecture Awards 2017

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

"What is African architecture? What makes architecture work on this continent?," asks Mark Olweny, a judge at this year’s Africa Architecture Awards.

17 Oct 17

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Design News • 16 Aug 22

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Design News • 16 Aug 22

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Design News • 16 Aug 22

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