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Tanzanian photographer dispels menstruation taboos
Design Frontiers
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Art & Photography
Elizabeth Mwambulukutu uses visual arts to tackle underlying perceptions in her country.
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29 Jan 19
Bongeka Ngcobo
The creative using her craft to tell stories about herself and those around her.
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29 Nov 18
Phenyo Melody Madiba
Phenyo uses pyrography (the art of decorating wood with burn marks) to create art.
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29 Nov 18
The 2019 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives are here
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African Design
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Each year we select 50 up and coming South African creatives and each year they surprise and beguile us.
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29 Nov 18
Tandekile Mkize
Film and Photography
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29 Nov 18
Karabo Seleke
Ceramicist
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29 Nov 18
Lunga Ntila
Visual artist
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29 Nov 18
Simphiwe Mangole
A 25-year-old illustrator inspired by cartoons like Dragon Ball Z, Felix the Cat and more.
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26 Nov 18
Rofhiwa Mudau
A conceptual graphic designer and illustrator who creates mind-bending work with colour and geometric shapes.
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21 Nov 18
Zingisa Ntwana
A budding photographer who uses her work to uplift women of colour.
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21 Nov 18
Lorraine Raaths
A conceptual photographer with an eye for the surreal
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21 Nov 18
Mzoxolo x Mayongo
Conceptual artist and activist from Cape Town, based in Johannesburg.
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20 Nov 18
Zinhle Zulu
The founder of Zuluvisual, hopes to do good through illustration.
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20 Nov 18
Basetsana Maluleka
This photographer left her finance studies to pursue her love for photography.
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19 Nov 18
Tshepiso Mabula
Mabula is a writer and photographer whose work focuses on human interest stories.
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19 Nov 18
Fumani Khumalo
This all-round creative has already worked with some of the country's biggest brands.
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16 Nov 18
Mondli Kunene
The Soweto-born visual artist wants to use his paintings to foster social change.
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16 Nov 18
Natalie Paneng
This multi-talented artist says the Internet played a vital role in her career.
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16 Nov 18
What can AI do for you?
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African Design
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Daniel Ting Chong uses creative coding to create collaborative artwork for Design Indaba 2019.
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26 Oct 18
Unscrambling Africa photo project reveals the Africa beyond the slums and safaris
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African Design
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Creative Economy
Photographer Mutua Matheka launched his project to show the complex beauty of African cities.
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18 Oct 18
Close Distance explores the divide between Bangladeshi women of different classes
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
"While maidservants make the bed and dust the sofa day in and day out, they are not expected to sit or lie on them.”
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12 Oct 18
Filmmaker and photographer Senay Berhe's unbounded approach to creativity
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Creative Economy
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Film & Animation
“I see myself as a tool to create. So what you put in, is what you get out. If I am doing well or doing something I love I feel that will be what comes out."
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11 Oct 18
Art collective tells painful stories of the displaced
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Foundland Collective uses research, art and design to track the traumatic stories of people affected by forced migration.
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8 Oct 18
Hannah Barry
Curator and founder of Bold Tendencies and Hannah Barry Gallery.
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3 Oct 18
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