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The sound of silence

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss

17 Apr 22
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A virtual leap for the lab

Q&A > African Design

Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners

17 Apr 22
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Art across time

Design News > Craft

Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms

17 Apr 22
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Handle with care

Q&A > African Design

Nandipha Yanta’s artwork focuses on self-care for Black women

10 Apr 22
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Outer peace

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Design Indaba Alumnus Shigeru Ban designs a wellness retreat on Japan’s Awaji Island

10 Apr 22
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Text messaging

Q&A > Art & Photography

‘Tentative Words Change Everything’ is a new outdoor sculpture exhibition by British artist Nathan Coley

10 Apr 22
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Art for art’s sake

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A reimagining of one of the world’s foremost performing arts schools has healing potential for creatives and audiences alike

10 Apr 22
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Black Coffee, the crème de la crème

Design News > African Design

Design Indaba congratulates Black Coffee for his Best Dance/Electronic Album win at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards

6 Apr 22
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Futureworld

Q&A > African Design

Kyle Kemink’s typo/graphic artwork pushes the boundaries of creative exploration

3 Apr 22
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Letters for Ukraine

Design News > Art & Photography

An Instagram design campaign from the global creative community is showing support for Ukraine

3 Apr 22

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Featured Series

Our featured series are collections of design stories and videos around particular themes, creative journeys and events.

Design Indaba Festival 2019

Known as the highlight of the creative calendar, Design Indaba's flagship event has evolved into so much more than a conference.
The creative women of Design Indaba Conference 2017 that are doing the most

We’ve rounded up the stellar design presentations of this year that happen to have been put together by women.
Through an African lens

African photographers are using striking imagery to tell the story of their Africa, both experienced and imagined.
AFRICA. NOW. West Africa

For the next instalment of Design Indaba’s Africa.Now. series our journalists investigate design and creativity in Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast.
Our Chats With series lets you interview South Africa's top creatives

Take control of an interview with some of South Africa's top innovators.
Do The Green Thing: Creativity vs Climate Change

Do The Green Thing is an inspiration feed of creative ideas to turn green living from something you ought to do to something that people want to do.

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Watch talks from our design conference

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NB Studio on being brave, bold and creatively courageous

Talks > Information Design

30 Sep 16 / Design Indaba Conference 2016
00:30:54

Studio Formafantasma on words as a tool for design

Talks > Product Design

3 Nov 15 / Design Indaba Conference 2015
00:05:25

Tyler Pratt on designing simple things to solve everyday needs

Talks > Product Design

11 Aug 15 / Design Indaba Conference 2015
00:35:21

Michel Rojkind on a design strategy to cope with overstimulation

Talks > Architecture & Interiors

13 Aug 14 / Design Indaba Conference 2014
00:29:21

Oscar E Pena's guide to branding

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

19 Oct 09 / Design Indaba Conference 2008
00:07:53

Christophe Guberan on textiles that transform

Talks > Product Design

26 Jul 16 /

From the Archives

Kinya Tagawa on threading humanity into the tech world

Design News > Product Design

The Japanese designer and engineer will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >

20 Nov 19
Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking

The artist and author is famed for draping buildings in materials, like jute sacks, as a comment on our complicated colonial histories. >

20 Nov 19
Self-taught Mexican artist on creating artwork that speaks to the masses

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

“I am totally self-taught, which gives me full freedom of experimentation." >

19 Nov 19
Kenyan fashion designer Anyango Mpinga on how she uses fashion to inspire change

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Mpinga tells us how soap operas, dragonflies and sound waves all came together to create the Anyango Mpinga label. >

19 Nov 19