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Self-titled
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Design Thinking
The latest exhibition by renowned South African visual activist Zanele Muholi is autobiographical.
10 Jul 23
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Join the dots
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Urban & Landscape Design
Yayoi Kusama’s immersive exhibition features inflatable artworks on a grand scale.
10 Jul 23
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Creative outlet
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Craft
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative offers artists the opportunity to use Persian carpets as a canvas.
10 Jul 23
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Letter days
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Craft
When an alphabet saves a culture.
10 Jul 23
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Hot off the press
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Otsile Moumakoe’s artworks incorporate ‘fashion, music, movies and a little bit of history’.
4 Jul 23
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Concrete jungle
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Architecture & Interiors
David Adjaye’s first skyscraper is completed in New York.
4 Jul 23
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Space lab
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Product Design
Varda Space Industries has launched the world’s first space factory.
4 Jul 23
Hot off the press
4 Jul 23
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Child’s play
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Design Thinking
This revamped museum was designed with and for children.
4 Jul 23
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Fresh air
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Architecture & Interiors
This public tower in New Delhi purifies polluted air.
27 Jun 23
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Tectonic forces
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Architecture & Interiors
This massive museum emulates the forms created by shifting tectonic plates.
27 Jun 23
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Clothes minded
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nokukhanya Justine Zungu is the founder of a brand that specialises in African contemporary women’s wear.
27 Jun 23
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Decolonising architecture
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Art & Photography
The Applied Arts pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores the colonial roots and evolution of Tropical Modernist architecture.
27 Jun 23
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Meet and greet
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Urban & Landscape Design
Lina Ghotmeh’s 2023 Serpentine Pavilion has arrived in Kensington Gardens.
19 Jun 23
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20/23 vision
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Product Design
Apple introduces a new era of spatial computing with its ‘mixed reality’ headset.
19 Jun 23
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Perfect pair
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Craft
This 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creatives duo share a love of creativity, craft and collaboration.
19 Jun 23
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Rhythm and hues
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Craft
The new Philharmonie Luxembourg logo responds to music.
19 Jun 23
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Digital muse
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Design Thinking
Ballet production Fusion pushes the boundaries of art and technology.
9 Jun 23
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Petal power
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Architecture & Interiors
Snøhetta’s redesign of the Blanton Museum of Art in Texas includes lily-like canopies.
9 Jun 23
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Synth wave
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Art & Photography
Yuri Suzuki has created a web experience celebrating the legendary Moog synthesiser.
9 Jun 23
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Hands on
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Craft
Rejoice Kunene aims to ‘foster a deeper appreciation for African heritage and its relevance in contemporary society’.
9 Jun 23
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Fairest of them all
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Art & Photography
The first edition of a Johannesburg art fair dazzled visitors with local and international artworks.
5 Jun 23
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Sky mountain
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Architecture & Interiors
A coastal pavilion in China echoes the sky, the hills and the ocean.
5 Jun 23
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Water wings
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Craft
This luxurious vessel takes emission-free transport from the road to the water.
5 Jun 23
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25 Feb 21
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Tattoo stonework
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25 Feb 21
Artist Fabio Viale has experimented with new forms of tattoo and stonework, applying designs created in collaboration with creative director Marcelo Burlon.
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