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designindaba has been a member of Linktree for 5 years and joined in June 2021. Besides social media accounts, designindaba has populated their site with: • Our Design Indaba Website • When materials aren’t what they seem… • Lady Skollie’s latest exhibition confronts uncomfortable truths. • Sweet spot | Design Indaba • Joy Mckinney on overstepping her boundaries • Looking back | Design IndabaKhensani Mohlatlole merges fashion, history and sustainability. • Discover how the natural world challenges the gender binary. • This Isola Design exhibition, part of the London Design Festival 2023, showcased a collection of ready-to-use designs focusing on the notion of circular design and how materials shape our lives. • This duo changed the trajectory of distance learning. • Innovative clothing is making life easier. • Discover the intersection of creativity and defiance in Iran. • Marina Willer on why designers should be creating frameworks to accept political change • In the round | Design Indaba • Let’s ride | Design Indaba • Wanuri Kahiu on using film to talk of Africans as people of joy, radiance and curiosity. • These chairs improve kids’ physical and mental health. • Where art triumphs over pain. • Dokter and Misses on the importance of the aesthetic function • A new exhibition explores the early days of environmentalism in American architecture. • Keith Haring created these previously unseen digital drawings in the 1980s. • ‘Mirage’ was created from sand collected from seventy deserts across the world. • Alberto Alessi: the godfather of Italian design • Can you guess what this building’s windows were inspired by? • LEGO’s Braille Bricks help families learn braille. • Furniture designer Stefan Diez on the value of designing process • Home sweet home | Design Indaba • ‘Answering nature's call’ takes on a new meaning! • World leaders in graphic design are heading to a major conference. • Yves Behar: Design. Stories. Life • Bridge of steel | Design Indaba • This hand-painted video game took seven years to complete. • Kathryn Fleming on designing future species • Artists used the land as their canvas for this festival. • LG Electronics has a brand-new look that comes to life ‘with a smile and a wink’. • Agi Haines on being the Frankenstein of design • ‘Are we ready to take on the God-like ability to manipulate the plasmas of life?’ • Would you play an unwinnable board game? • Chris Blackwell goes with his gut and brings us reggae • Second chances | Design Indaba • Leanie van der Vyver on testing the line between sexy and grotesque • Inga Sempé on articulated product design • Design Indaba alum Es Devlin has spent a 30-year career imagining ‘worlds that don’t yet exist’. • Behind the scenes | Design Indaba • Breast in class | Design Indaba • Shunji Yamanaka on designing to make people happy • Let the light in | Design Indaba • Guiding light | Design Indaba • This ‘temple of love’ is glazed in thousands of pastel tiles. • Aleksandra Gosiewski talks seaweed fashion and the next stage of biotech • Javier Mariscal: On what creativity can do – a puppet show • Turn your smartphone into a telescope. • This planetarium design was inspired by the movement of the stars. • Threads that bind us | Design Indaba • Are you a fan of Jay-Z? • The world’s biggest office building is a one-stop destination for over 60 000 professionals. • Orlando Pirates have a new designer kit. • A pair of unique towers offers incredible views of the skyline of Manhattan. • Es Devlin on fusing architecture, poetry, music and science • Metamorphosis | Design Indaba • Colours of Africa - Google Arts & Culture • Edel Rodriguez is America’s Illustrator-In-Chief - be moved by his extraordinary design journey • These running shoes help re-seed cities. • This is the world’s largest sphere! • Riley Axon, a Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023, uses their creativity to spread awareness and information on gender/queer stories. • Naledi Modupi: Celebrating womanhood and blackness • How do you save a language? • Self-titled | Design Indaba • Natasha Jen: Design Thinking is Bullsh*t. • The kids are alright! • 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Otsile Moumakoe ‘celebrates, comments on and satirises’ culture with retro-inspired collages. • A new logo design features vertical columns that pulsate in response to music. • Dave Hakkens on tackling the issues of waste on our planet • How do you decolonise architecture? • This public tower turns polluted air into clean air. • Celebrate the iconic Moog synthesiser with Yuri Suzuki’s interactive web game. • To the walls | Design Indaba • Hands on | Design Indaba • These petal-like canopies provide shade and capture rainwater. • What happens when an architect and a fashion designer get together? • The Icon watercraft is the first battery-powered marine vessel of its kind. • John Pawson on making calm, simple spaces • A groundbreaking new ballet used AI as inspiration for its choreography, set design, costumes and music. • The electricity-free Bud Ground Cooler chills drinks using the geothermal cooling properties of the ground. • This fluorescent-pink tree in New York asks viewers to consider the connection between human and plant life. • Discover some of the stand-out pavilions at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale • Ane Crabtree’s legendary approach to costume design • Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Tebogo Selepe’s collages are influenced by pop art, surrealism and high fashion. • Shaina Garfield on how we can benefit the Earth even after death • This exhibition shows how wool is more than just a raw material. • Woven stories | Design Indaba • This memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural contours of a hill. • The New Medium | Design Indaba • IKEA ÖVERALLT: In the designers' words • The American Museum of Natural History’s new building imitates cave exploration. • Finding hope | Design Indaba • Adebayo Oke Lawal is using fashion to address toxic masculinity • David Droga on why he is still optimistic about advertising • Re-threading | Design Indaba • Mokena Makeka on public spaces for expression • Photography allows Thulani Kubeka to paint with light. • This spiral building in China is a haven for book lovers. • Qeren Creates brings inner worlds of feeling and thought to life. • This former Design Indaba Emerging Creative wants to create our world as we would like to see it. • Participants, not subjects. • The Wayair School in Tanzania responds to the social and climate-related needs of a refugee community. • Lemn Sissay on taking creative risks • Studio Other Spaces has been continuously developing this enormous urban park in Ethiopia for a decade. • This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative is already an award-winning director. • This is how designer Dror Benshetrit began his Design Indaba Conference presentation, referring to the birth of his new project where physics and poetry meet. • Light work | Design Indaba • This exhibition features a massive Lego ‘painting’. • Capturing the beauty and diversity of black women. • Design Indaba alum Olafur Eliasson conceived an exhibition that’s divided between two locations: a museum and a desert site. • This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year. • Fast food, slow packaging | Design Indaba • This avant-garde photograph is inspired by a coastal plant found in Gqeberha. • Christophe Guberan on textiles that transform • Kagiso Lediga on storytelling and perseverance • An artist finding inspiration in nature. • Printed pavilion | Design Indaba • Logo genius Ivan Chermayeff's secret joys • The (Mini) Bean takes New York. • Lava Lab on the millennial renaissance • NB Studio designed the Vineyard Theatre’s logo to adapt to every production. • Storytelling is at the heart of this 2023 Emerging Creative’s prints. • Thulani Kubeka, a Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022, describes photography as a form of ‘painting with light’. • British architect David Chipperfield is this year’s recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Prize. • Masashi Kawamura breathed life into wooden sculptures for his first stop-motion animation film. • At 33, Sumayya Vally is climbing the ladder of success at a staggering pace. • Kordae Henry imagines an alternative African history and future • Juliana Rotich: On new tech ecosystem for Africa, meet BRCK • Would you leave your baby in the hands of AI? • All is fair in love and design | Leta and Wade at Design Indaba Conference 2019 • The new edition of House of Bondage includes never-before-seen photographs by Ernest Cole. • In his Design Indaba Conference presentation, creative director Masashi Kawamura explained how this approach – essentially, designing new ways to design – informs his creative work and leads to new ways to tell stories. • This sparkling sculpture is made up of the quantity of coal needed to power a single lightbulb for a year. • Designed by the world-famous David Adjaye, the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi is a space for religious harmony. • The Chaohu Natural and Cultural Centre in China mimics the mounds made by tunnelling worms. • Architecture firm BIG’s first South American building was designed to grow trees. • In his bones | Design Indaba • Olafur Eliasson talks design that has real-world significance • Announcing Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives Class of 2023 | Design Indaba • Would you want your remains transformed into fertile soil? • Find out how Dutch artist, designer and curator Erik Kessels turned an irredeemable situation into the perfect advertising opportunity. • Explore the web of life. • The National Portrait Gallery in London is reopening after 3 years with new branding. • Architects have a huge responsibility. • The formula for great ideas = 87% effort + 7,5% luck + 0,5% talent + 5% staying off the internet for a consecutive 90 minutes. • How are you planning for your future (older) self? • Is the idea of the rhino more powerful than the rhino itself? • A tool to enable virtual participation in civic action. • This prize celebrates the most significant contemporary African artists working today. • Satirical sculptures that explore the human condition. • This beauty tool from Lancôme is designed to make the lipstick-application process more inclusive. • Poetic gestures within a rigid system. • This dumping site was transformed into a dreamy floating forest. • Omar Victor Diop used portraiture to capture the modern African aesthetic. • For Lady Skollie, blue represents the complexities of South Africa's history and her identity. • Can you guess what this building is made of? • In this Design Indaba talk, the four members of Brazilian studio Fibra Design talk about how design can bring about real societal change. • Mark Shuttleworth, the well-known entrepreneur who was also the first African in space, talks about founding the South African Ubuntu Project • Watch CODA here • Our YouTube Channel