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Xhosa

  • Photographs: Thebe Magugu, Imraan Christian
    Culture club
    Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Thebe Magugu’s latest collection features 18 South African icons. >
    16 May 24
  • Wanuri Kahiu on stage at Design Indaba Conference 2019
    Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk about Africans as joyful and radiant
    Talks > Art & Photography / Creative Economy / Film & Animation
    “I realised that there is more images and more stories of joy than there is of remorse,” Kahiu says of her search for African stories of joy. >
    3 Apr 19
  • MaXhosa
    MaXhosa launches rug collection and appoints new creative director
    Design News > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Changes are afoot for the acclaimed South African fashion brand. >
    13 Apr 18
  • The Wound
    SA film has its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
    Design News > Film & Animation
    The controversial movie offers a glimpse into the initiation rites of amaXhosa men. >
    16 Feb 17
  • Daniel Ting Chong X PUMA
    Daniel Ting Chong teams up with PUMA on this exclusive collection
    Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    The artistic sneaker range pays tribute to African cultures. >
    13 Feb 17
  • Young South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo looks into how you can make Xhosa circumcision rituals safer in his Central Saint Martins graduate project
    Laduma Ngxokolo: Design for safer circumcision rituals
    Next Generation > African Design / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Young South African designer Laduma Ngxokolo looks into how you can make Xhosa circumcision rituals safer in his Central Saint Martins graduate project. >
    20 Jul 16
  • Image: Umbala Blankets
    Buy one give one: A blanket drive from Cape Town
    Design Frontiers > Craft / Product Design
    Umbala blankets are designed and locally manufactured by a studio that donate a blanket to a baby in need for every blanket they sell. >
    28 Mar 16
  • Between Home and Wisdom.
    The sangomas and weavers of Du Noon
    Lookbook > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft
    An exhibition of photos captures the daily lived realities of the talented women collaborating with Pichulik and Design Afrika on a new range of bags. >
    12 May 15
  • 2014 Emerging Creative: Tina Ngxokolo.
    Tina Ngxokolo
    Tina Ngxokolo is a fashion designer and part of the 2014 Emerging Creatives programme. >
    28 Jan 14
  • Nicholas Hlobo at Design Indaba 2013.
    Nicholas Hlobo on understanding his own culture
    Talks > Art & Photography
    Nicholas Hlobo explores, through sound and images, the construction of his own sense of understanding about the self, one’s country, family, culture and more. >
    5 Sep 13
  • My Heritage, My Inheritance knitwear collection by Laduma Ngxokolo.
    Ethnik appeal
    Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Laduma Ngxokolo's 2013 knitwear collection, "My Heritage, My Inheritance" is dedicated to his late mother. He showed it at the Labo Ethnik Fashion Weekend. >
    23 Jul 13
  • Nicholas Hlobo at Design Indaba 2013
    Nicholas Hlobo
    Nicholas Hlobo is a South African artist, fast gaining an international reputation for his experimental use of materials. >
    18 Jan 13
  • Laduma Ngxokolo
    Laduma Ngxokolo on his Xhosa fashion line
    Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Laduma Ngxokolo incorporates traditional Xhosa beadwork designs into his range of wool and mohair garments for men. >
    9 Nov 11
  • Pattern people
    Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Renée Rossouw and Laduma Ngxokolo take abstract patterns from school-day simplicity to allusions about personal identity. >
    16 May 11
  • Laduma Ngxokolo
    Laduma Ngxokolo is a South African textile and knitwear designer, best known for his men's knitwear range inspired by traditional Xhosa beadwork. >
    6 Feb 11
  • Boi Boi, Zuko & Prince. Photo: Araminta de Clermont.
    Watershed photography
    Design News >
    Araminta de Clermont's exhibition, A New Beginning, explores the outer transition newly initiated young men go through. >
    30 Sep 10
  • Toyi-toyi for film
    Design News >
    Design Indaba Expo 2010: Craig Charnock's How to Toyi-Toyi is a quick dummies-guide to South Africa’s most powerful dance. >
    27 Feb 10
  • Direct via the Transkei
    Design News > Product Design
    South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets. >
    1 Nov 08
  • Tall tale for kids
    Reviews > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >
    2 Nov 07
  • Our products manifesto
    Design News > Craft / Design Thinking
    KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >
    1 Aug 06
  • Each one teach one
    Opinion >
    A group of 'street photographers', all from the Cape Town area, have banded together to form the Umlilo Photographers Association. >
    1 Aug 02
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