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Victoria Hayes is ready for battle

Next Generation • 7 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

She graduated from Parsons with a collection inspired by samurai armour. Now she’s taking on the New York City fashion world. >
Take Five

Take Five • 7 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Our African Report on the vibrant portraits of Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj captured readers' attention this week. >
The evolution of Taibo Bacar

Lookbook • 6 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Mozambican fashion designer Taibo Bacar's latest colourful collection signals an evolutionary shift in his eponymous label. >
"Ama-Rulah" by Roberto

Track of the Week • 6 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

This week we look to Lusaka, Zambia, for a head-bobbing track by Afro-R&B artist Roberto. >
Ian Murchison on wooden knives and bendy bicycle racks (trailer)

Trailers • 6 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

This Canadian industrial designer is making waves in the product design industry. At Design Indaba Conference 2014, he shares his story of success. >
Why girls should code

Inside View • 5 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Code4CT is getting girls to code – while arming them with a technical toolkit to take on leadership roles. >
The tales that monuments tell

Design News • 5 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Photographer David Goldblatt tells us which post-Apartheid monuments he considers successful and why. >
A boot camp for your fingers

Design News • 4 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Masashi Kawamura has some fun designing a series of games to get users' fingers ready for the new Intel-powered tablets. >
Evans Wadongo: The little light that could

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:25 • 4 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Kenyan engineer and businessman Evans Wadongo tells us about his award-winning MwangaBora light and creating a sustainable economy in rural areas. >
Replicating the mother's womb

Design Frontiers • 4 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

A new infant care system proposes radically improved incubators that transmit the mother's heartbeat, breathing and voice. >
David Tlale's second take on Vlisco

Lookbook • 3 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

The South African fashion designer's latest collection juxtaposes lavish Java prints with tailored structure at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa. >
Make. Change: A DIY sleeping bag for the homeless

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:34 • 3 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Meet Jo Maxwell, an ordinary citizen who prototyped a sleeping bag made of newspaper and plastic bags that has been distributed to more than 20,000 people. >
Tackling the housing problem

Focus On • 2 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

We round up four of the sustainable, low-cost innovations featured in The Better Living Challenge Showcase, which opened in Cape Town this week. >
Making a city desired

Design News • 1 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

The "City Desired" exhibition explores issues of city making and contemporary urbanism through the lens of Cape Town. >
The playful portraitist

African Report • 31 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Patterns clash and cultures collide in Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj's striking portraits. >
Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

FilmFestFriday • 31 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living. >
Take Five

Take Five • 31 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Take five minutes to catch up with designindaba.com's top five stories this week. >
"The World's Pain" by Black Vulcanite

Track of the Week • 30 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Track of the Week describes the difficulties of a life dedicated to music in insightful rhymes with back-up from an immaculate jazz sample. >
Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:53 • 30 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

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

Product Spotlight • 30 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

This Dutch designer trades traditional textiles for yarn made from sea algae woven into a luxurious rug. >
City hacks for #makechange

Lookbook • 29 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far. >
Internet inspiration: Threat or enabler?

Hot Topic • 29 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Lazy man's library or a window onto the world? Four South African creatives tell us whether the internet stymies or aids their creative process. >
Lauren Beukes on fiction as an incredible kind of telepathy

Talks • Duration: 00:38:52 • 29 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

South African author Lauren Beukes brings a singular storytelling experience to the Design Indaba Conference stage. >
Shining a light on workers’ safety

Design Frontiers • 28 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away. >

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