Design Indaba

We have been delighted to media partner with the southern hemisphere’s biggest creative conference Design Indaba for the past six years. Over the years we’ve covered the annual event via numerous articles on It’s Nice That, banner advertising and coverage in our printed magazine, Printed Pages. Here you can find all our articles about the event including reviews, interviews and comment pieces.

2020

This year's edition of Design Indaba will focus on “advancing social progress through design activism”

11 February 2020

Olimpia Zagnoli on how creativity helps us understand one another

Patrick Thomas walks us through Open Collab, an interactive tool for creatives to endlessly collaborate

2016

Design Indaba 2016 Review: a vision of a positive future

26 February 2016

“Don’t mix rock and roll with professionalism” – a conference through the eyes of Snask

19 February 2016

Fred Gelli on designing “the most complex visual identity in the world” for Rio 2016

19 February 2016

Turning the Tables – NB Studio's theatrical manifesto about creativity

18 February 2016

Design Indaba Festival 2016: Our picks for the week ahead

15 February 2016

Design Indaba Festival 2016: Introducing the keynote speakers

12 February 2016

“A think tank for a week, and a do-tank for the rest of the year”: Ravi Naidoo on Design Indaba

9 February 2016

2015

Dan Wieden Is... We spend a week stalking the advertising mogul around a conference in Cape Town

An interview with interactive music video pioneer Yoni Bloch

Michael Bierut talks about logos and why we invest them with meaning

A look at Michael Bierut's defining designs as new book announced

27 February 2015

Mao to mangos, Lebron to bike lanes – day three at Design Indaba

27 February 2015

Nando's wisdom and Dennis Hopper poetry at Design Indaba Day two

26 February 2015

Our highlights from the first day of the Design Indaba event in Cape Town

25 February 2015

Ten talks we're looking forward to at Design Indaba 2015

18 February 2015

Wolff Olins' Ije Nwokorie on what Africa needs to harness its creative energy

9 February 2015

Our pick of the talks from 2014's Design Indaba event in Cape Town

23 January 2015

It's Nice That to media partner again with Design Indaba in 2015!!

18 December 2014