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Thaakierah Abdul is using graphic design to push for Cape Malay recognition

Design Frontiers • Duration: 00:02:09 • 3 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

The 2018 Design Indaba Emerging Creative draws inspiration from her family and people in the streets like informal traders. >
Photographer Cole Ndelu explores the dissonance of masculine femininity

Design News • 2 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

“Seeing masculinity and femininity outside of the norm must become the norm.” >
Six designers tackle sustainability from food, waste and even death

Design Frontiers • 2 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are working to design more sustainable methods and products. >
This museum preserves Brazil's cultural and craft memory

Design Frontiers • 1 Jul 19 • Sponsored Content

The A CASA Museum of the Brazilian Object has dedicated 21 years to preserving the rich cultural history of the Brazilian people. >
Call for applications: Summer programme 2019

Design Frontiers • 27 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The University of the Underground and the Hannah Arendt Center at Bard College invite you to apply for POST-NATION STATES, Summer School 19 in NYC. >
Crystal Birch invites us into her hat wonderland

Design News • 27 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The hat designer, stylist and milliner takes us behind the scenes of how she comes up with her playful designs. >
Durban students initiate a space to foster more campus interaction

Design News • 25 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The Level Six project is the first student-led project guided by professionals to come out of Durban University of Technology. >
Using empathic design to save the lives of pregnant women

Design Frontiers • 24 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

How Caroline Smeenk and Dahabo Adi Galgallo are saving the lives of mothers and their unborn children, on opposite sides of the world. >
Students explore death through a video game and our fascination with fake goods

Design Frontiers • 20 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

We spotlight the work of two graduates from the University of the Underground which was started by Dr Nelly Ben-Hayoun. >
Are you the future of South Africa’s design industry?

Festival News • 20 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The hunt for South Africa’s hottest young emerging creatives has begun. Apply now! >
Meet Hayden Williams, the fashion illustrator to Hollywood stars

Design News • 20 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The 27-year-old talks to us about how he harnessed his 1,2 million Instagram followers to build a global brand. >
Creating art out of scrap engine parts

Next Generation • 20 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Kara Schoeman creates intricate art bowls out of recycled metals. >
How these Ghanaian developers are creating awareness around e-waste

Next Generation • 19 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Ghanaian game developers, Enter Africa, are creating a game that focuses on the issues of safety and sanitation surrounding e-waste dumps. >
Applications for African Crossroads 2019 are now open!

Design Frontiers • 19 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Hivos is looking for content proposals from artists, entrepreneurs, chefs, designers, researchers, to imagine the future of African cities. >
Nigerian sculptor makes life-sized art using spoons

Next Generation • 19 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Abinoro Akporode Collins says he was first challenged by his art lecturer to try unconventional materials for his sculptures. >
Mzukisi Mbane’s imprint on African fashion

Design News • 18 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

The Design Indaba Emerging Creative on building a global brand that pays homage to his identity and celebrates femininity. >
Connextyle is providing multi-sensory healing for stroke patients

Design Frontiers • 17 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by the ancient Japanese technique of Kintsugi, the Connextyle shirt is a rehabilitation garment that helps stroke patients regain their muscle use. >
Sunny Dolat wants to set a new standard for African fashion

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

A small island off the coast of West Africa is about to host a truly representative African arts and fashion festival. >
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice Age

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

People see global warming as a modern phenomenon, but fashion has a long history of responding to climate change. >
Ghanaian photographer Lawrence Agyei on the power of photography

Design News • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

“To me, a great photograph is like poetry. It captures and expresses a situation or emotion that transcends everyday life.” >
Design Indaba launches the Future Cities Residency

Festival News • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Paloma Strelitz is the first resident of the Design Indaba Future Cities Residency. >
How artists and architects are helping residents to claim their right to the city

Design Frontiers • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Grigri Pixel invited a group a creatives from Africa and Spain to work together in Madrid to try and find out. >
Graphic designer Rofhiwa Mudau is using famous faces to inspire the youth

Design News • 14 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

“This acts as inspiration to influence a positive work flow to the career or the job of your dreams.” >
Post-colonial Congolese architecture: green, local and volcanic

Design Frontiers • 12 Jun 19 • Sponsored Content

Designer Nicolas-Patience Basabose talks about the past and the future of architecture in the DRC. >

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