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Sir David Adjaye and Tiffany Chu among the nine speakers at the inaugural Design Commons
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Design Thinking
The deconstructed conference puts global heavyweights in design at the same table as the audience.
28 Aug 17
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Convenient household composting with Taihi
Next Generation
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Product Design
If it’s good enough for your body, it’s certainly good enough for your garden.
28 Aug 17
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The Maitland Institute is changing perspectives on how audiences engage with art
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Creative Economy
This Cape Town space is departing from the clinical, one-way-communication aspect of the modern art gallery.
25 Aug 17
00:02:55
Empathy and fact in Ekene Ijeoma’s emotive projects
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Information Design
The US-based interdisciplinary designer’s Refugee Map looks outside the frames of a global crisis.
25 Aug 17
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On Nathan Reddy, one of the leading design specialists in the ad industry
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African Design
The founder of GRID Worldwide Branding and Design, was inducted into the Loeries Creative Hall of Fame.
24 Aug 17
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Should you be putting your website to bed?
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Information Design
Sleep debt facts say yes.
24 Aug 17
00:03:13
Blinky Bill talks socially conscious music and breaking free of genre constraints
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Music & Sound Design
The former Just a Band frontman gets in depth about the power of music.
23 Aug 17
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See these custom tributes to the iconic Prince
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Music & Sound Design
The icon’s passing was a shock to many, but at least we’ll be able to replicate his purple hue.
23 Aug 17
00:02:48
A return to our primordial roots with Stanislaw Trzebinski
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Art & Photography
“In spite of our total reliance on the natural world, we have become almost blind to it,” says the artist.
23 Aug 17
00:18:42
Blinky Bill brings African musical expression to the Design Indaba stage
Talks
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Music & Sound Design
The Kenyan musician, producer and DJ doesn’t care what African music is ‘supposed’ to sound like.
23 Aug 17
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Kolor Art Collective’s latest work questions what it means to be ‘normal’
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
Photographed by Pol Kurucz, the brazenly avant-garde series defies conventionalities.
23 Aug 17
00:19:53
Furniture designer Stefan Diez on the value of designing process
Talks
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Industrial Design
The renowned German designer does not shy away from age-old materials and techniques.
22 Aug 17
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From outmoded storage cylinder to innovative knowledge hub
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Architecture & Interiors
This storehouse will be transformed into a dynamic information centre on sustainable energy for the city of Heidelberg.
22 Aug 17
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Wacom Creatives: Benjamin Von Wong on his brand of visual engineering
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"If social media didn't exist I probably wouldn't be doing photography," says the photographer.
22 Aug 17
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Meet Carolyn Davidson, the woman behind the iconic Nike Swoosh
Design Frontiers
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The retired graphic designer created the logo while she was still a student at Portland State University. The job earned her $35 back then.
21 Aug 17
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Testing the bounds of modular home design with DD16
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Architecture & Interiors
This architecture prototype caters for intrepid voyagers and nomadic fishermen with utmost economy in its design.
21 Aug 17
00:02:25
Stefan Diez on the importance of craftsmanship and pushing boundaries in design
Video Interviews
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Industrial Design
“Design is always done really outstandingly if it takes little effort to reach very far," says the industrial designer.
21 Aug 17
00:02:53
Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value
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Industrial Design
This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life.
18 Aug 17
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Exhibiting photography at roadhouses to celebrate this fading social culture
Design Frontiers
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Film & Animation
Night By Roadhouse brings local and international photography to a wide, non gallery-going audience in Johannesburg.
18 Aug 17
00:12:04
Isabel Mager on identifying the human body behind the making of high-tech gadgets
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Industrial Design
What human narrative exists beneath our shiny 21st-century products?
18 Aug 17
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SaveArtSpace turns billboards into public art canvasses
Design Frontiers
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The initiative aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives.
17 Aug 17
00:01:59
Talking odd interplay with information and ephemeral tech with Tea Uglow
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Interaction Design
As technology becomes more functional, does it become less human-centric?
17 Aug 17
00:31:26
Tea Uglow on the creative unknown and dispelling misplaced confidence in reality
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Information Design
Tea Uglow, the director of Google’s Creative Lab in Sydney on her work at the intersection of tech and creativity.
16 Aug 17
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Diversifying media imagery to include more ethnicities with TONL
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Art & Photography
This agency works to arm advertisers and designers with the tools to represent all races in their campaigns, not just one.
15 Aug 17
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