Kenya | Design Indaba

Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft

Inside the Nairobi-based workshop of Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner, a husband-and-wife team who make all their own designs by hand. >

30 Oct 14
Inside Kenya's iHub

Video Interviews > African Design / Information Design / Interaction Design

The iHub is the heart centre of Kenya's tech revolution. We took its pulse on this tour inside. >

28 Oct 14
SEVEN THIRTY Films: Capturing Kenyan perspectives in film

Video Interviews > Film & Animation

The sister duo behind this filmmaking studio tells us about the opportunities and challenges of being creative in Kenya. >

27 Oct 14
Mark Kaigwa: Tracking digital trends in East Africa

Video Interviews > African Design / Information Design

The Nairobi-based social media strategist and blogger tells us where digital technology is heading in Kenya. >

8 Oct 14
Vitra Design Museum looks to Africa

Design News > African Design

The institution plans a major exhibition on contemporary African design in spring 2015. >

1 Oct 14
Ulric Charteris: Conquering Kilimanjaro

Q&A > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

South African adman Ulric Charteris on setting up shop in Dar es Salaam and why Tanzanians hate billboard advertising. >

26 Sep 14
Juliana Rotich on a new tech ecosystem for Africa

Talks > African Design / Design Thinking / Information Design

What if solutions to the world’s problems came from Africa? asks Juliana Rotich, co-founder of Kenyan technology firm Ushahidi. >

27 Aug 14
An artisanal architect in Nairobi

African Report > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Kenyan-born Naeem Biviji is a rare kind of architect who takes on only small-scale projects and crafts all his furnishings by hand. >

22 Aug 14
Juliana Rotich on a new tech ecosystem for Africa (trailer)

Trailers > African Design / Creative Economy / Product Design

The co-founder of Ushahidi shares her journey on the frontlines of technology and digital connectivity in Africa. >

22 Aug 14
The quiet ambassador of African design

Profiling > African Design / Design Activism / Industrial Design / Product Design

Meet Mugendi M'Rithaa, the Kenyan educator and activist who has been working behind the scenes to promote the power of design in Africa. >

22 Jul 14
Jepchumba

Digital artist and founder of African Digital Art, Jepchumba is the curator for the Digital and Communications sectors at Design Indaba Expo 2015. >

16 Jul 14
Inside View: The journey of BRCK

Inside View > African Design / Industrial Design

Erik Hersman, co-founder of Kenyan tech firm Ushahidi, shares the journey of BRCK with us as the first orders of the self-powered, mobile WiFi device go out. >

16 Jul 14
Bright spark

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Faithless percussionist Sudha Kheterpal wants to shake up the world to create clean energy for people without access to electricity. >

15 Jul 14
Q&A: Thebe Ikalafeng

Q&A > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / African Design

We chat to one of Africa's leading brand gurus about his appointment to the jury of the Red Dot Communication Design Awards. >

7 Jul 14
"Aparo" by Kato Change and Lisa Oduor-Noah

Track of the Week > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Banish winter blues with this balmy collaboration between Kenyan guitarist Kato Change and vocalist Lisa Oduor-Noah. >

26 Jun 14
Juliana Rotich: What connectivity can do for Africa

Video Interviews > African Design / Design Activism / Design Thinking / Information Design

Economic growth is just one effect greater connectivity can have in Africa, says the co-founder of Ushahidi in this interview. >

18 Jun 14
In the heart of the forest

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / African Design

Boogertman + Partners Architects have won an architectural competition to design the Karura Forest Environmental Education Centre in Nairobi, Kenya. >

30 Apr 14
SDFA-Kenya

Evans Wadongo is a Kenyan engineer and the executive director and chairman SDFA–Kenya. >

4 Apr 14
Africa is Tranformed

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

"Africa is Transformed" is one of the of the five themes explored in the "Africa is Now" exhibition at the Design Indaba Expo 2014. >

28 Feb 14
Nairobi dispatch

Q&A > African Design / Film & Animation

Award-winning filmmaker, animator and director Ng'endo Mukii gives Design Indaba the lowdown on the experience of returning to Kenya after eight years abroad. >

2 Dec 13
Democratising information

Design News > African Design / Creative Economy / Information Design / Product Design

A new type of modem has come out of Africa – one built for rugged African conditions that can withstand power cuts. >

19 Nov 13
An art first for Kenya

Design News > Art & Photography / African Design

East Africa’s first ever commercial modern and contemporary art auction in Nairobi last week generated sales of more than $US200 000. >

9 Nov 13
Clean living

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Runner-up in the social impact category of the Core77 Design Awards professional category is Clean Team. >

12 Jun 13
Puppets show up in Kenya

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

A satirical puppet show developed and initiated by cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa has made it onto the airwaves in Kenya. >

22 Aug 09

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