Design Indaba alumnus Robert Wong, co-founder and CD of Google Creative Lab, has been announced as one of the speakers at this year's Design Indaba...
Jessica Tennant 13 Feb 2020
Design Indaba speaker, Dutch fashion designer Bas Timmer is changing the world one Sheltersuit at a time...
23 Jan 2020
The inspiration for the bench came from the famous Nelson Mandela quote: "The best weapon is to sit down and talk"...
18 Jul 2019
How an American and Rwandan partnership brought the mythical 'Wakanda' to life by harnessing drone technology to deliver life-saving medical supplies...
Louise Marsland 1 Mar 2019
Terry Levin lists the highlights of this year's Design Indaba Festival...
Terry Levin 26 Feb 2018
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?
Jessica Tennant 23 Feb 2018
In a recent Bizcommunity interview Design Indaba speaker Brian Collins commented that there has never been a better time to be a startup...
13 Mar 2017
Design Indaba speakers continue to share their creative insights...
3 Mar 2017
Having attended over a decade of Design Indaba conferences, I can attest to the fact that the standard of speakers and the relevance of topics hardly ever wavers from excellent, however, the second day of the 21st Design Indaba might be remembered for having showcased one of the coolest speaker lineups ever...
Terry Levin 3 Mar 2017
Speakers from Google, Airbnb, MIT and other tech startups will share their future visions with design graduates and others from 1-3 March 2017...
27 Feb 2017
London-based Pentagram partner and creative director Marina Willer is an iconic figure in graphic design and filmmaking, whose inspiration, she says, comes from her colleagues, her children and her RCA tutor and graphic design titan, Margaret Calvert...
23 Feb 2017
Amsterdam-based artists and filmmakers Lernert & Sander, who began collaborating in 2007, have since become known for their high-conceptual art films, eye-catching installations and keen fashion aesthetic. Another impressive addition to the Design Indaba 2017 speaker lineup.
15 Feb 2017
Kate Moross, an expert on how to make it in the hyper-competitive design world, is another international speaker set to liven the Design Indaba stage this year...
2 Feb 2017
![[Design Indaba 2016] Alternative creativity at its best](https://biz-file.com/c/1602/331237-120x120.jpg?2)
In the two decades Ravi Naidoo's been behind bringing some of the best local design and international creative speakers to our shores. In this exclusive interview, Naidoo lets us in on his personal inspiration, and what he's most looking forward to from Design Indaba 2016...
Leigh Andrews 16 Feb 2016
![[Design Indaba 2016] Conference highs to come](https://biz-file.com/c/1602/330600-120x120.jpg?2)
'Accidental entrepreneur' Ravi Naidoo lets us in on why Design Indaba has turned the usual design philosophy of 'less is more' on its head: 'More is more' means this year's conference attendees will get more inspiration, more immersive experiences and more examples to reboot your creativity...
Leigh Andrews 11 Feb 2016
![[Loeries 2015] All the Design finalists](https://biz-file.com/c/1508/301535-120x120.jpg)
With judging complete in these categories, the Loeries' Design finalists have been announced...
13 Aug 2015
The Design Indaba simulcast for Port Elizabeth's creatives will be brought to the city by Boomtown for a second time. The conference will be simulcast to a venue at the Little Ford Theatre in Central Port Elizabeth from Wednesday, 26 February, to Friday, 28 February.
Issued by BOOMTOWN 5 Feb 2014
The Design Indaba Conference will be simulcast live to venues in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Port Elizabeth and, for the first time, Potchesfstroom.
Issued by Design Indaba 9 Jan 2014
Design Indaba's Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA), presented by Mini, is not about labelling beauty, but instead about asking: "What is beautiful to you?" This year's winner, as voted by the public via SMS, is the Dreams for Africa Chair by Woza Moya.
2 Mar 2011
The new Design Indaba magazine issue was offered to advertising duo Mohit Jayal and V Sunil of W&K Delhi, key speakers at last year's Design Indaba, to guest edit the 'Made in India' issue. According to the publishers, who relinquished creative and editorial control, they were 'amped'by the results.
31 Aug 2010
![[Design Indaba] Heavy hitters excite the twitterers](https://biz-file.com/c/1002/45018-120x120.jpg)
I drove to the Cape Town CBD yesterday, Tuesday, 23 February 2010, for the opening of Design Indaba and ended up in the middle of the night on a deserted piece of railway track somewhere between Stellenbosch and Paarl. I learnt a lot last night. [view twitterfall]
Chris Moerdyk 24 Feb 2010