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Meet me on the surface of Jupiter

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Home to a range of world-class sculptures. >

25 Feb 21
Design Indaba 2019 presents: Architecture driven by social responsibility

Design Frontiers > Architecture & Interiors

From Mariam Kamara to Dong Ping-Wong, the 2019 Design Indaba Conference will host a list of renowned architects. >

5 Dec 18
The Urchins is taking the craft of crochet to a new level

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft

Where biomimicry, cultural weaving and lots of polyester strands meet. >

8 Feb 18
Top 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | January 2018

Take Five > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration / 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
Things we learnt from Kate Moross

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole. >

2 Mar 17
Day 1 Dispatch from DI: Elemental.Sense.Home.

Festival News > African Design / Design Thinking

Here is our second official dispatch, as we look back on Day One of Design Indaba Festival 2017. >

2 Mar 17
Photographer Ofoe Amegavie captures the beauty of Ghana’s iconic festivals

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography

Photographer Ofoe Amegavie tells the vivid stories of Ghana’s traditional festivals in an ongoing series. >

17 Aug 16
Why I've got beef with festivals like Glastonbury

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

In Issue 3 of Do The Green Thing, Naresh Ramchandani tells us why it's time for festivals like Glastonbury to go meat free. >

23 Jun 16
Ghetto Biennale catalogue documents the creative endeavours of Haitian artists

Design News > Art & Photography

The Ghetto Biennale connects Haitian artists to the rest of the world; its catalogue will give the exhibition longevity. >

11 Jan 16
Pink Intruder builds a cardboard pavilion in Valencia’s town square

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design

The Ekklesia pavilion was assembled in the centre of a crossroads in the Spanish city of Valencia to coincide with the annual Falla festival. >

2 Jul 15
Voting with your waste

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

A Dutch design collective has come up with a fun way to make festival-goers more conscious of their rubbish. >

14 Apr 15
Secret festival

Lookbook > Food Design

The 2013 Spier Secret Festival was a huge success. Here's an inside look at what the two-day celebration offered visitors. >

13 Nov 13
Design Indaba FilmFest 2013 (Durban)

The world’s best creativity and design films, all on one screen. Now heading to Durban from 28 to 30 November 2013. >

12 Nov 13
Open Design

Design News > Design Thinking

Taking place from 21 to 31 August 2013, Open Design Cape Town is a multidisciplinary event aimed at making design and design thinking more accessible. >

18 Aug 13
#FilmFestFriday

#FilmFestFriday is a regular feature on designindaba.com, delivering a dose of creative inspiration every Friday. >

5 Jun 13
A Taste of Sónar at Design Indaba

Festival News > Music & Sound Design

Sónar, Europe’s foremost electronic music festival, will be presenting “A Taste of Sónar” in Cape Town during Design Indaba. >

29 Feb 12
DI2011: Film call for entry

Festival News >

Step up to the silver screen... at Design Indaba Expo 2011. Submission deadline: 31 October 2010. >

26 Aug 10
Brighton Festival calls on Brian Eno

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Iconic culture figure and 1970s glam rocker, Brian Eno has been appointed as guest artistic director for next year’s Brighton Festival. >

5 Dec 09
The spirit of photography

Opinion > Art & Photography

Back to the Khumb Mela, the Hindu festival that takes place every 12 years outside Allahabad. >

1 May 02

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