Point of View | Design Indaba

10 things a photographer should know

Inside View > Art & Photography

#1. Don't be a photographer >

8 Feb 17
Doubt is a creative catalyst: We grow because we doubt

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking

In May 2016, Tea Uglow (formerly Tom) spoke on doubt as a creative catalyst. During the talk, she acknowledged she is transgender. Tea is speaking at DI 2017. >

8 Feb 17
"Everything is possible at Design Indaba": We talk to Nelly Ben Hayoun

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Ahead of her third appearance on the Design Indaba stage, we talk to Nelly Ben Hayoun about her DI experiences, inspiration and why impossible doesn’t exist. >

6 Feb 17
Ungifted: Why Santa must die

Inside View > Design Activism

In the latest chapter from creativity versus climate change non-profit Do The Green Thing, the greed and commercial vulgarity of Christmas is revealed. >

12 Dec 16
Move at the speed of culture: How brands stay connected in a fast pace world

Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration

Sydney-based brand agency Re believes that relevance trumps differentiation. If you are relevant, you can create an emotional connection. >

22 Nov 16
Engineered seduction: How slot machines keep users fixated

Opinion > Design Thinking / Product Design

Take a look at the deceptive graphic design & psychology behind gambling machines. >

27 Oct 16
Do The Green Thing: Not Another Make Up Tutorial

Inside View > Design Activism / Design Thinking

With its promotion of overconsumption, its excessive packaging and dubious ingredients, the beauty industry is pretty bad for the environment. >

25 Oct 16
Ivorian “photo-maker” Paul Sika is turning his creative energy to the world of games

African Report > African Design / Art & Photography

Photography can no longer contain the whole of Paul Sika’s vision, instead he is choosing to tell his next story in a digital, transmedia fashion. >

20 Oct 16
My Africa Is: A documentary project that celebrates pop culture in Africa

Inside View > African Design / Film & Animation

Filmmaker Nosarieme Garrick discusses the making of her new documentary "Alternative Nairobi" with Nataal. >

13 Sep 16
DJ Steloo on creating an electronic music scene in Accra

African Report > African Design / Music & Sound Design

"I decided to take the responsibility to create a scene and to inspire people to the genre of electronic music." >

8 Sep 16 / Brand Collaboration
Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past

Opinion > Film & Animation

The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before. >

15 Aug 16
Social media cross-formatting: plagiarism or optimisation?

Hot Topic > Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram take more ideas from one another than they care to admit. But is it a bad thing? >

12 Aug 16
The Sync Project: Music as precision medicine

Inside View > Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

The Sync Project is a platform that investigates the therapeutic power of music by mapping its effects on the brain. >

20 Jul 16
Michael Wolff writes in defense of Heatherwick's Garden Bridge

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design

In defence of big ideas and of the controversial Garden Bridge, design titan Michael Wolff writes in objection to the construction of St Paul's Cathedral. >

18 Jul 16
How is virtual reality changing the architecture industry?

Inside View > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

We talk to the VR specialist at South African architecture and design practice SAOTA about how virtual reality and technology is changing design. >

5 Jul 16
Lessons in design from Michael Wolff

Inside View > Design Thinking

A designer’s strength lies in their potential to bring noticing, observation and imagination to the world, according to branding legend Michael Wolff. >

13 Apr 16
Redesign Meat at the Slagerij de Hamvraag

Inside View > Food Design

Food designers rethink the meat industry in a series of talks and discussions at the Slagerij de Hamvraag pop up butchery in the Netherlands. >

7 Apr 16
Architects designing for social improvement

Inside View > Architecture & Interiors

billionBricks project manager Astrid Hugo shares advice on how to design for the homeless. >

7 Apr 16
MakeRight: Involving prisoners in anti-crime design

Inside View > Design Thinking / Product Design

MakeRight is an initiative that gets prisoners to help manufacture “theft-proof” bags that consider the user and the abuser and designs out the crime. >

5 Apr 16
Go-getters of the digital art movement

Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration

Digital design duo Reed + Rader talk VR, AR and breaking down the barrier between real and simulated worlds. >

31 Mar 16
Osborne Macharia on how storytelling can change perceptions

Inside View > Art & Photography

The Kenyan photographer touches on the power of narrative photography with his series “Melanin-0”. >

24 Mar 16
Friends of Light: Handwoven jackets from New York

Inside View > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Fashion designer and professor Pascale Gatzen founded the weaving cooperative Friends of Light to help bring a little mindfulness back into fashion. >

25 Feb 16
Thomas Chapman has built a screen to memorialise the forcibly removed residents of Sophiatown

African Report > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Thomas Chapman, in collaboration with Nedbank and Design Indaba, unveiled a remembrance screen for the displaced residents of Sophiatown. >

17 Feb 16
Q&A with Naresh Ramchandani

Inside View > Creative Economy

The Pentagram partner shares his thoughts on jargon, the power of words and writing as a form of design. >

11 Feb 16

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