Architect and The Design Indaba alumna Annabelle Selldorf Selldorf Architects has been named on the Time 100 list of most influential people for 2025 by TIME magazine. She was named on a list that includes world leaders, business leaders and sport titans such as tennis player

Adebayo Oke-Lawal, is rethinking masculinity in African culture. The Nigerian designer’s brand Orange Culture Orange Culture embraces those who do not fit in and celebrates their individuality. Oke-Lawal inspired the The Design Indaba audience with the story of how he went

As South Africa continues to commemorate and honour the courage and resistance of the June 16, 1976, black students during this youth month of June. We celebrate another young South African creative, artist and The Design Indaba alumna, Tony Gum. Gum calls herself an “artist in

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This youth month, we celebrate another young creative who has been redefining African fashion. The award winning, designer and Design Indaba Emerging Creatives programme alumnus Thebe Magugu. Thebe Magugu has been amplifying African narratives on a global stage, ensuring

"Today, our definition of good design is changing. We are no longer able to judge the quality of a design by aesthetics alone". Pearson Lloyd During his The Design Indaba talk, industrial design specialist and co-founder of PearsonLloyd Pearson Lloyd, Luke Pearson aka

A veteran of the cinematic arts, renowned designer Alex McDowell believes that storytelling has the power to influence design. From fanzines to music videos to major feature films like Man of Steel, Fight Club and Minority Report, award-winning designer Alex McDowell has tested

Making the world a less frustrating, more efficient and safer place. what3words is redefining the global address system. According to the United Nations, 75 per cent of the world has inadequate, poor or no addressing systems at all and roughly 4 billion people live without a

Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop, uses his camera to revive traditional West African portraiture, and recreating portraits of historical African leaders. Born in Senegal as the last child of six to an accountant and a lawyer – Diop naturally followed the path to a

Naama Schendar explores identity and trauma through a design project that encourages enhanced empathy. Schendar presented her thesis project "Your Beautiful Self", at Design Indaba Conference as part of the The Design Indaba Global Graduate program soon after she graduated from the

Furniture designer Stefan Diez on the value of designing process. When you’re working with companies that have no manufacturing experience, you as the designer have to show them the possibilities, said Diez. The German industrial designer presented his alternative furniture

Paula Scher talks about how she went about designing the new Windows 8 logo for Microsoft and how it is able to live in different spaces and mediums. Paula Scher, a partner at one of the world's leading design consultancy Pentagram Design, is one of the most influential graphic

Earlier this year Google quietly made subtle updates to its logo, debuting a soft-focus version of the G icon first introduced by the tech company in 2015. The revamped design that was rolled out in May this year across the Google app on iOS and Android, connects Google's four

It's more useful to think about branding as a messy creative process than as a pristine product, says then Wolff Olins global CEO, Ije Nwokorie. Ije Nwokorie who is now the CEO of Dr. Martens Plc, gets irritated by industry talk about branding in "its complete, finished, done

Mazbahul Islam’s Safewheel brings emergency medical care to rural Bangladesh. Mazbahul Islam was one of the young global graduates who presented at the 2020 The Design Indaba Conference. Rural communities in Bangladesh face many challenges, including how to get emergency medical

"Homelessness is a global problem and Sheltersuit, as we see it, is a solution that fits in any country," says founder of Sheltersuit Foundation, Bas Timmer. Bas Timmer who is a Dutch fashion designer, teamed up with businessman Alexander de Groot to create the Sheltersuit; a

Att. SA creatives, from illustrators to architects; ad agencies to animators; web developers to copy writers: we’re compiling an article on invisible creative exports. We’ve featured many, but hear anecdotally of much more, so we want to do a deep dive. Please DM us re. coups! 🙏🏽