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On South African icon Thandiswa Mazwai
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Music & Sound Design
Affectionately known as King Tha, the award winning musician uses her craft for activism.
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15 Jan 19
Doctor turned designer Kgahlego Kewana talks us through her unlikely path
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Emerging Creative will exhibit her work at the Design Indaba Festival among more than 40 up-and-coming South African talents.
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14 Jan 19
On cityscapes and soundsuits with future-proofing graduate Ines De Peuter
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Ines De Peuter investigates the relationship between the self and its context by creating garments that adapt to the concrete jungle.
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10 Jan 19
This collaboration of activists are transforming marginalised communities through art, dialogue and action
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Design Thinking
The team at Colloqate wants to eliminate toxic government policies and Confederate infrastructure in the city of New Orleans.
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9 Jan 19
Nigerian fashion powerhouse Adebayo Oke-Lawal brings Orange Culture to Design Indaba 2019
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Androgynous fashion isn’t new but it renews itself, and in doing so it continuously redefines culture, identity and gender politics.
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9 Jan 19
The eco-friendly benefits of a busted smartphone
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Creative Economy
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Product Design
“This project takes the seemingly catastrophic moment in which the smartphone breaks as an opportunity to redefine the value of the expired object.”
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9 Jan 19
A future where calling a human stand-in is as easy as calling an Uber
Next Generation
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Creative Economy
It’s already possible, but what if it evolves into more than just hiring someone to stand in line, and Other-Self Agency replaces interactions with loved ones?
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8 Jan 19
4 graphic designers exhibiting at Design Indaba 2019
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Watch out for articles like this one in the lead up to the annual Emerging Creatives exhibition, a smorgasbord of young South African talent.
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7 Jan 19
Designing a way to build bonds between strangers
Next Generation
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Design Activism
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Interaction Design
Social designer Manon van Hoeckel creates spaces, art pieces and experiences that confront divides between people.
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7 Jan 19
8 emerging fashion designers on their interpretation of South African fashion
Next Generation
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Come watch these young designers exhibiting their work at Design Indaba 2019.
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4 Jan 19
How African cities can harness green technologies for growth and jobs
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African Design
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Design Activism
The value of green technologies and systems is that they are largely decentralised or semi-decentralised.
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4 Jan 19
When empathy isn’t enough by Shaina Garfield
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Designers need to go beyond empathy to include the disabled community as participants in design solutions.
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3 Jan 19
An easy low-cost way to deliver medicine in rural areas
Next Generation
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Industrial design student Gwen Gage wants to make medication delivery more accessible in under-developed regions.
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3 Jan 19
The world is changing and green material is at the forefront
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Design Activism
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Design Thinking
We look a little deeper at the materials trend that led to tangible design solutions we found this year.
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21 Dec 18
Five killer Design Indaba Conference talks you should watch
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Product Design
From graphic designer Natasha Jen to architect Francis Kéré, here are our top 5 Design Indaba Conference talks.
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20 Dec 18
Creatives that shape cultural narratives
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Film & Animation
These Design Indaba 2019 speakers are using their wells of creativity to define culture in a myriad of magical ways.
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19 Dec 18
Should we engineer the climate? A social scientist and natural scientist discuss
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Design Activism
This is an article from Head to Head, a series in which academics from different disciplines chew over current debates.
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19 Dec 18
5 Innovations that broke the mould in 2018
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Pioneers in their fields, these innovations were made to provide new solutions to old problems.
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18 Dec 18
Our top five trending stories of 2018
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Architecture & Interiors
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As 2018 comes to an end, we're highlighting stories that grabbed our readers' attention this year.
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17 Dec 18
The Socio-Technical City combats the key challenges of our future cities
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
UNStudio designs a speculative cityscape for The Hague, aimed to address rapid urban growth and sustainability.
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14 Dec 18
Oliber is a low-cost solution for people suffering from a debilitating condition
Next Generation
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Design Activism
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Product Design
Chilean design graduate Bárbara López designed a low-cost tool to give new hands to those in need.
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14 Dec 18
Design Indaba 2019: Where business and design meet
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Information Design
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Product Design
The next Design Indaba Conference is set to tackle various topics across business and design.
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13 Dec 18
The 5 most searched designers in 2018
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Spanning across diverse ages, nationalities and disciplines, these were the most searched Design Indaba speakers in 2018
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12 Dec 18
From scrap to robot: This unlikely creation is one man's livelihood
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African Design
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Craft
I’ve always been good with my hands, says South Africa's “Robot Man”.
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12 Dec 18
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