Lagos’ Wooden Tower is an alternative to the city's reliance on concrete...
The award-winning tower was designed and conceptualised by Cameroonian Architecture Firm, Hermann Kamte & Associates.Posted 4 Jan 18By Lindsay SamsonArchitecture & InteriorsCreative Work /...
View ArticleTatsuya Honda's hairpin enables you to feel sounds
This graduate of the Future University Hakode has designed a more intuitive aid for hearing impaired users that translates sound to vibration. Posted 4 Jan 18By Khumo SebamboDesign Thinking• Product...
View ArticleA Digital Drum is bringing computer skills to the youth in rural Uganda
Design without Borders has developed a way to bridge the information gap between urban and rural youth of Uganda.Posted 5 Jan 18By Tracey WalkerAfrican Design• Design Activism• Interaction...
View ArticleRevolutionising food production with edible fungi made from plastic
LIVIN Studio and Utrecht University transform plastic waste into gourmet fungi food. 12345The Fungi Mutuarium Agar-based "FUs"Edible fungi food produceFungi Cutlery is custom designed to eat the...
View ArticleOn what the abandoned landmarks of Joburg tell us about the city
A story of neglect, dereliction and emptiness in Johannesburg. Posted 6 Jan 18By City PressAfrican Design• Architecture & Interiors• Art & PhotographyCreative Work / Design NewsCommentsIn 1968,...
View ArticleAstrid Stavro on making meaning and telling stories through design
The award-winning designer will join a myriad of renowned creatives at the Design Indaba Conference 2018. Posted 8 Jan 18By Jamie MatroosGraphic Design & IllustrationCreative Work / Design...
View ArticleAstrid Stavro
Partner and Creative Director, AtlasAstrid Stavro is the Creative Director of Atlas, an independent brand and design consultancy working from offices in London, Mallorca and occasionally New York. She...
View ArticleVisual artist Musonda Kabwe tackles youth with his latest Instagram comic series
"All my work is African because it’s all born here, but I don't dress it up for any tourists."Posted 8 Jan 18By Emile UysGraphic Design & IllustrationCreative Work / Design NewsCommentsA new...
View ArticleTop 10 Creative Crowdfunding Projects | January 2018
We've scoured the web for compelling creative campaigns around the globe that you might want to support in their quest for funding. Have a look!Posted 9 Jan 18By Emile UysCraft• Graphic Design &...
View ArticleMark Kamau on why the future of Africa is in design
The Kenyan UX designer is making the internet more affordable and accessible one Brck at a time.Posted 9 Jan 18By Neo MaditlaDesign Activism• Design Thinking• Information DesignCreative Work / Design...
View ArticleTshepo Mokholo on innovating traditional architectural practises
The Soweto-born architect, who is also a former Emerging Creative, tells us how his a chance meeting landed him in Kigali.Posted 10 Jan 18By Lindsay SamsonAfrican Design• Architecture & Interiors•...
View ArticleWhat will ageing mean by the year 2050? Mar Ginot Blanco & Aaron Garlick answer
This creative duo aim to design for future challenges based on present and past movements in design. .field-name-field-video { width: 100%; } Design Academy Eindhoven graduates Mar Ginot Blanco and...
View ArticleAmna Elshandaweely
The Egyptian fashion designer combines ethics and aesthetics to create unique, trendy collections. Amna Elshandaweely is an Egyptian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Her eponymous label combines...
View ArticleMark Kamau
Afro-centric UX DesignerMark kamau is a user experience designer from Kenya who believes that design is the most powerful tool for social and economic change. He works as the User Experience Design...
View ArticlePaloma Strelitz brings humanity to the practise of urban design
The co-founder of the Turner Prize-winning Assemble collective on creating spaces that enable upliftment. .field-name-field-video { width: 100%; } Paloma Strelitz sees design as a kind of problem...
View ArticleLéa Pereyre on inventing a new field in drone costume design
The ECAL graduate's #Antenna2017 talk touches on the evolution of technology in the robotic field and creating choreographed drones. .field-name-field-video { width: 100%; } Before industrial designer,...
View ArticleNeri Oxman on designing the new material ecology
Experience Oxman and her Mediated Matter Group's pioneering bio-engineered work on the Design Indaba Conference 2018 stage. Posted 17 Jan 18By Emile UysArchitecture & Interiors• Design Thinking•...
View ArticlePulling art from the earth with Ensamble
Spanish architects Antón García-Abril and Débora Mesa will be speaking at the Design Indaba Conference 2018.Posted 17 Jan 18By Staff WriterArchitecture & InteriorsCreative Work / Design...
View ArticleJohannes Torpe on thinking beyond the parameters of acceptable ideas
The Design Indaba 2018 speaker works within the fields of interior design, product design, industrial design and architecture.Posted 17 Jan 18By Design IndabaArchitecture & Interiors• Design...
View ArticleFive Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
In the film he talks about his vision of design, and shows that architecture is about more than stone and concrete.Video of 236121090The work of Piet Oudolf is famed the world over. His design for the...
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