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Terry Levin Terry Levin lists the highlights of this year's Design Indaba Festival...read |
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| Leigh Andrews The 23rd Design Indaba conference, taking place at the Artscape from 21 to 23 February 2018, kicked off with a reminder not to film proceedings and to keep phones on silent. Tweeting, Facebook check-ins and Instagram tagging were allowed - clearly, as it's all about sharing the inspiration... read |
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| Louise Marsland The Design Indaba stage was a cathartic moment for the first speaker of day one, Zimbabwean-born filmmaker, Sunu Gonera, who told Bizcommunity.com that it was a "coming of age moment" for him to tell his own story to his peers and have it well received... read |
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| Jessica Tennant The moment designer Lonny van Ryswyck took her shoes off on the Design Indaba stage, she opened many eyes to see the same thing in a different way. Isn't that what design is really about? read |
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| Terry Levin While admiring the work of Edel Rodriguez and Morag Myerscough at Design Indaba 2018, Terry Levin contemplates if perhaps the value of any graphic design may be determined by how effective it is in influencing a desired outcome, provoking a specific mental or emotional response in the viewer... read |
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| Sue Disler Academic, rockstar or DJ? This was one of the questions Sue Disler had for artist and educator - creative coder, Zachery Lieberman in her interview with him on Day 1 of Design Indaba 2018... read |
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| Jessica Tennant Brothers and co-founders (or 'partners by design' as they call themselves) Sam and Rob Paddock, CEO and chief of strategic partnerships at GetSmarter addressed Design Indaba delegates yesterday on how partnering at the student level as well as the employee and executive level has not only increased their course completion rate but resulted in the turnaround of the business... read |
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| Ann Nurock For most South Africans, Thomas Heatherwick has become a household name for his design of the Zeitz Mocaa in Cape Town. But there is so much more to this man, which he revealed in his talk at Design Indaba... read |
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Bizcommunity chats to Zimbabwian born Sunu Gonera, an award winning commercial director, filmmaker and powerful storyteller, at Design Indaba 2018.
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Bizcommunity shares a few moments with the iconic GetSmarter founders, Sam and Robert Paddock at Design Indaba 2018.
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Bizcommunity spoke with Johan Minnie and Juan Labuschane, head of development for the "Stash" Liberty App at Design Indaba 2018.
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| Louise Marsland Design Indaba showcased the work of Leroy Mawasaru, a Kenyan teenager who is changing the world and showing how Afrofuturism can unfold for the continent... read |
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| Leigh Andrews Lebo Mashile on African females as the future of humanity, the importance of having a mentor in the industry and honouring the legacy of Hugh Masekela... read |
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| Jessica Tennant New York-based Fashion Institute of Technology graduate and biomaterials research company AlgiKnit co-founder and COO Aleksandra Gosiewski gave a thought-provoking presentation at Design Indaba on Wednesday on why they, at AlgiKnit, believe that biology is the future of fashion and their revolutionary work in their search for a sustainable product... read |
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| Louise Marsland How Egyptian fashion designer Amna Elshandaweely uses social activism in her fashion to address issues of culture and identity... read |
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| Leigh Andrews Weaving her lyrical way through history, the ultimate lyrical female linguist, Lebo Mashile unpacked the power of design language... read |
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| Sue Disler Dr William Mapham, an ophthalmologist hailing from the Eastern Cape, who conceived the Vula app, whilst working at the Vula Emehlo Eye Clinic in rural Swaziland and experiencing first-hand the difficulties faced by rural health workers in need of specialist advice, spoke on Day 2 of Design Indaba and received a standing ovation... read |
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Bizcommunity chats to Lonny van Rysywck, a teacher at Design Academy Eindhoven and one half of the duo that leads the Netherlands' Atelier NL Design Studio, about her involvement with Design Indaba 2018.
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Bizcommunity speaks to Morag Myerscough, one of the leading strucutural designers in the world, about the influence behind her creative structures she made for Design Indaba this year.
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Bizcommunity chats to Sydney Mbhele, the Chief Marketing Officer for the Liberty Group who were the headline sponsors of the Design Indaba 2018.
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Bizcommunity shares a few moments with Tom Dixon, a self-taught designer that rose into the limelight in the 80s, about why he spoke at Design Indaba this year, the importance of the conference and the things that motivate him.
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Bizcommunity's Leigh Andrews chats to poet, performer, singer, actress and presenter, Lebo Mashile about why Design Indaba is so important when it comes to it's contribution towards social change.
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| Sue Disler Neri Oxman, architect, inventor, engineer, designer, scientist and founding director of the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab, who spoke on Day 3, thanked Design Indaba's founder, Ravi Nadoo for letting her be "suntanned by the Mother City's spirit... read |
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| Louise Marsland Design Indaba speaker Mark Kamau is a Kenyan on a mission to connect everyone in Africa, and then the rest of the world, to the internet... read |
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| Leigh Andrews You know you're in for a treat when the final speaker reaches the Design Indaba conference stage, they tend to save the best for last. Here's how 'kinetic stage sculptor' Es Devlin wowed us in sharing how she makes global musical performances more visually appealing... read |
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| Thabisa Mjo's Tutu 2.0 light judged has been named the 'Most Beautiful Object in South Africa' by public vote at Design Indaba 2018... read |
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| Jessica Tennant Dutch trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort presented her latest trend books for 2019, namely Goddesses (trends S/S 2019), On Safari (activewear S/S 2019) and Spiritual House (home and lifestyle 2019), as part of Design Indaba 2018 at Lisof in Johannesburg yesterday... read |
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| Jessica Tennant This a continuation of Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort's presentation at Lisof, on her latest trend book, Goddesses for spring/summer 2019... read |
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| Leigh Andrews To many 'Design Indaba' is simply founder Ravi Naidoo, but there's a huge team behind the scenes. Meet editor-in-chief Neo Maditla, looking to make the Design Indaba website as popular year-round as the annual Festival... read |
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| Leigh Andrews This week, we go behind the selfie with Jamie Matroos, deputy editor at Design Indaba... read |
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