the Design Indaba 2010 community of South Africa

Lisbon welcomes Design Indaba

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:17:00 +0200

LISBON, PORTUGAL: Design Indaba is presenting a creative case study of South Africa in both exhibition and debate format as guests of ExperimentaDesign Lisbon in Portugal, 9 September - 8 November 2009. As part of the Open Talk debates, running 9-13 September, Design Indaba founder and host Ravi Naidoo will examine what the world can learn from SA's 14-year revolution; designers Gaby de Abreu (Switch), Nathan Reddy (Grid) and Nkhensani Nkosi (Stoned Cherrie) will join him on the panel.
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Cape Town design route shows creativity all-year round

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:56:00 +0200

The Design Indaba Expo this year saw the launch of the first Cape Town Design Route, in collaboration with Cape Town Tourism and the Cape Town Partnership. Now tourists and design fanatics can enjoy the high-quality creativity on offer at the Design Indaba Expo, all-year round.
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Design Indaba exhibitors get cheap

Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:51:00 +0200

Free Range aims to open the world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.
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Design Indaba magazine invites you to frost in July

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:44:00 +0200

Now, eight years on, with a mantelpiece of awards and working out of a new office in Australia, Vince continues to ignite the burning passion of creativity for change.
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Design Indaba magazine goes afrolectric

Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:21:00 +0200

From the celluloid dreams of Youssef Nabil to the ethnographic Bauhaus reinterpretations of Dokter and Misses, “Afrolectric” is a generation of creative visions pinned on challenge and change. Stacy Hardy and François Naudé repurpose JM Coetzee's Disgrace using Google images.
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Design Indaba 2009 - seeing the light in the dark

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:11:00 +0200

Inspiration levels at fever pitch, the 1500 privileged delegates of the 2009 Design Indaba once again assembled in the dark to witness the criteria that make up the world's design elite. In order to contextualise the levels of excellence and awesomeness of this conference, we might say that comparing it with most of the design we see around us everyday - like supermarket signage, tourism brochures, pole posters etc - is a bit like comparing a mediocre musician with Bob Dylan.
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Design Indaba book your stand for 2010 now!

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:59:00 +0200

Why pay 1975 per square meter for a Standard Package stand when, if you book and pay before 17 July, you can pay 1875 per square meter?
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Design Indaba, day 2 - the battle of the animators

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:54:00 +0200

The second day of the Design Indaba took us into a world of giant stickie figures, architecture and Zen...
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Animation makes it into the mainstream

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:31:00 +0200

Animation is more than a century old and yet it is only in the last decade or so that is has made it into the mainstream.
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The new plastic surgery from Design Indaba

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:13:00 +0200

Design Indaba, Cape Town: As world economies melt down and resources diminish, designers are emerging as the key to maximising resources and identifying new sources of revenue out of nothing.
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