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Capturing Cape Town’s scent with Kaja Solgaard Dahl

Next Generation > Design Thinking / Product Design

This designer is fascinated with creativity that uplifts our sensory experiences. >

1 Mar 17
Can beauty redeem us?

Festival News > African Design / Design Thinking

Welcome to Design Indaba Festival 2017. Here is our first official dispatch, as we begin. >

1 Mar 17
Design Indaba 2017 features a royal flush of Scandinavian speakers

Design News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland are all accounted for at this year’s Design Indaba Conference. >

27 Feb 17
Practical tips from fellow delegates and speakers

Hot Topic > Design Thinking

Take notes, bring a jumper, and don't miss the up-and-coming guys – inspiration comes from the unexpected. >

27 Feb 17
What is a bank doing at a design conference?

Design News > Design Thinking

The world needs more design-centric companies, run by design-minded people, to create products and processes with human wants, needs and behaviours in mind. >

24 Feb 17
Celestial jukeboxes: Music should (and can) support universal health and well being

Design News > Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

How does music affect our minds? And how can we use it as a form of medicine? The founder of "music as medicine" platform The Sync Project explains. >

24 Feb 17
Students harness the sun to purify water

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

This device could aid households that only have access to contaminated water. >

24 Feb 17
The making of a dreamscape

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking

Come with us into a surreal world of magical trees, otherworldly art installations and a full-blown lineup of awesome musicians and DJs. >

22 Feb 17
3D printing skin cells directly onto burn wounds

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

Scientists are increasingly creative in their experimentation with 3D printers. >

20 Feb 17
Feminine hygiene for rural schoolgirls

Design News > Design Activism / Design Thinking

Happy with a Purpose distributes menstrual cups to rural schoolgirls in South Africa. >

20 Feb 17
Capturing tranquility in chaos

Next Generation > African Design / Design Thinking

This designer draws geometric inspiration from unusual places. >

17 Feb 17
The eccentric ways modern designers are telling the time

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

This peculiar collection of timepieces makes the hours fly by. >

17 Feb 17
#enlightenme: Join our live Q&A with artist Olafur Eliasson

Design News > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Design Thinking

On Thursday evening we're hosting a live Q&A with monumental Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. What do you want to ask him? >

15 Feb 17
Would we trade gold and silver for jewellery made of light?

Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Conceptual design studio panGenerator used light projection to envision the future of jewellery design. >

14 Feb 17
Last Call for entries for the 2017 A’ Design Awards

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

Designer? Architect? There’s still time for you to get your entries in. >

14 Feb 17
Using stomach acid to power sensory tech-tablets

Design News > Design Thinking

This tiny monitor is designed to rest in your digestive system and sustain itself with it. >

14 Feb 17
Aditi Khurana

Based in New Delhi, Aditi Khurana is the International Regional Coordinator for School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City. >

13 Feb 17
7 Creative habits to inspire your everyday

Design News > Design Thinking

You can wait until inspiration strikes or until your muse arrives. Or you can start fostering your imagination today by developing a creative habit. >

13 Feb 17
Ayse Birsel

Co-founder and creative director of the award-winning design studio Birsel + Seck, Ayse Birsel is also a teacher and the author of "Design the Life You Love". >

13 Feb 17
Nomad: A digital guide for the visually impaired

Design News > Design Thinking / Industrial Design

Student designs a headset concept to tackle some of the challenges faced by the visually impaired in their daily lives. >

13 Feb 17
Marcus Engman

The head of design at IKEA challenges the way traditional products are made. >

10 Feb 17
How to partake in Africa's biggest design event – wherever you are

Festival News > African Design / Design Thinking

With so much happening at the 2017 Design Indaba Festival, we can't blame you if you feel like you can't keep up. >

10 Feb 17
Meet the next generation: Design Indaba's Global Graduates 2017

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

From practical to poetic, we'd like to introduce you our brilliant Global Graduates who’ll be presenting their work at the Design Indaba Conference 2017. >

9 Feb 17
Isabel Mager

Isabel Mager is an investigative and critical designer based in the Netherlands. Her work investigates culture and structures of power. >

9 Feb 17

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