Are you a Design Indaba Superstar?

Are you a Design Indaba Superstar?

We're looking for 11 South Africans to make up our national creative team. Express yourself in any way you like and you could be chosen as a Design Indaba Superstar.

100% Saffer

100% Saffer

A 100% homegrown multidisciplinary spectacle of creativity, Design Indaba Expo will celebrate its seventh incarnation from 26 to 28 February 2010.

Design Indaba in Singapore

Design Indaba in Singapore

“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announced Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress in Singapore.

Latest Snippets

Winning ceramics
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Louise Gelderblom will be exhibiting her one-off hand-built ceramic vessels and other work.
Eco treasures
Design Indaba Expo 2010: The African Queen Studio are launching a new range of truly inspirational lighting.
Hot pop culture
Design Indaba Expo 2010: One Small Seed will be launching its March issue, exclusively available to visitors before hitting the shelves.
Necklaces of every type
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Jeweller Frieda Lühl will be showing the wide range of necklaces she has made over the past year.
Photo mats
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Photographer Ed Suter will be launching his new range of cork-backed, matt-finished coasters and placemats.
Conference sold out: Book for simulcast
With three weeks to go to the event, the 2010 Design Indaba Conference is sold out. Book now for the simulcast.
SA fashion goes global at Design Indaba Expo
South Africa’s only independent fashion ramp, the 2010 Design Indaba Expo again promises a stellar line-up of newbies and show favourites.
Design Indaba Expo announces all-new kids programme
Design Indaba Expo 2010 welcomes its youngest visitors to explore the exciting and zestful world of design. Book at Computicket.
Green with jewellery
Design Indaba Expo 2010: freeRange jewels have enjoyed phenomenal success since first exhibiting two years ago.
This craft
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Born and Bred Design is a product development agency with a primary focus on rural and urban craft development.

Conference

Bookings open for Young Designers Simulcast
Students and young designers are again invited to book for the Young Designers Simulcast at the 2010 Design Indaba Conference.
The Bouroullec Brothers at DI2010
Innovation and originality are the calling cards for Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
Solve it all with Harry Pearce at DI2010
Visual puns and typographic riddles have long been a creative addiction for Harry Pearce.

Expo

Vespa Takeone Video Challenge
Enter the Vespa Takeone Video Challenge online now and stand a chance to win a new Vespa LX.
Design Indaba Expo even bigger in 2010
An unabated festival of South African creativity will explode from 26 to 28 February 2010 at the CTICC.
Buyers: Register now for DI2010 Expo
Design Indaba Expo 2010 runs from 26 to 28 February with an exclusive Buyers Preview on Thursday 25 February from 14:00-18:00.

Project

10x10 Low Cost Housing Project
Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing offers affordable, attractive and innovative responses to the urgent need to house the urban poor.
Protofarm 2050
Design Indaba presented Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.
Free Range
Free Range was born to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.

Article

Space explorer
Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design.
Crop share actionism
Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork.
Soil soul
Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet.

News

Faith47: Activism through art
Drive around Cape Town and you're bound to spot Faith47’s exceptionally visual and engaging graffiti on a wall somewhere.
Lucy Orta exhibits a land without borders
Lucy Orta doesn’t just stand by and watch the world change. She creates the change she wants to see.
Tom Dixon launches Utility
British lighting and furniture design maverick Tom Dixon have once again taken steps in innovation with their latest collection, Utility.