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Meet Carolyn Davidson, the woman behind the iconic Nike Swoosh
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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
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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
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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
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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
Talks
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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
00:03:01
Marcus Engman on the value of curiosity and IKEA’s first African collaboration
Video Interviews
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Product Design
IKEA's head of design chats with us about their upcoming African design collection created with Design Indaba, as well as the vision that drives his company.
14 Aug 17
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A 30 foot warship made from plastic debris is hoping to draw attention to ocean pollution
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Design Activism
The Surfers Against Sewage initiative is highlighting the world’s largest ocean garbage site.
14 Aug 17
00:08:14
Jesper Brodin & Marcus Engman on the start of IKEA’s new African collaboration
Talks
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Craft
“We like to work in an open way, because we believe in that way of co-creating things.”
14 Aug 17
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Dutch artist Thirza Schaap reveals the delicate beauty that can be found in garbage
Design News
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Art & Photography
Instead of a bombastic crusade, this project raises awareness of marine pollution in a gentle, considered style.
11 Aug 17
00:11:22
Bo-Won Keum on using design to help elevate the voices of prison inmates
Talks
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Design Thinking
The graphic designer worked on a monochromatic book that had handwritten book requests and thank you notes from US prison inmates.
11 Aug 17
00:03:16
Marina Willer on the importance of creativity in changing the world for the better
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"I like to use my creativity to change the world a little bit," says the filmmaker and graphic designer.
10 Aug 17
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The deformed realities of graphic artist Anxo Viscaíno
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"I would rather focus more efforts on developing art and culture than spending too much time protecting my copyright," he says.
10 Aug 17
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Desktop bioengineering by Amino Labs
Design News
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Product Design
The small-scale kits empower the scientists and innovators of tomorrow.
10 Aug 17
00:29:56
Marina Willer on why designers should be creating frameworks for accepting political change
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The partner at Pentagram on Brexit, family, history and the power of design during these changing political times.
10 Aug 17
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An affordable, open-source home
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
As part of the push toward sustainable design, Studiolada released plans for the Open Source House.
9 Aug 17
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This new exhibition calls on feminism to be diverse
Design News
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Design Activism
Feminisms x The Arab and Muslim Diaspora to open at London’s Protein Studios.
9 Aug 17
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Crystal Kung on bringing warm feelings to life through her illustrations
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Taipei-based illustrator “I don’t think my drawing skills comes from talent. They come from hard work”.
8 Aug 17
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The Big Trash Animals project of Bordalo II
Design News
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Art & Photography
This Portuguese installation artist creates animal sculptures in urban spaces from the very materials that cause their destruction in nature.
8 Aug 17
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Holograms from Syria reveals the horrors of war to the average American
Design News
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Interaction Design
Asad J. Malik’s augmented reality project communicates the real-life experience of the Syrian Civil War to Western audiences.
8 Aug 17
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