Design Indaba: John Maeda: Our interview with the RISD president on the changing nature of design and the long process of becoming a successful leader

Design Indaba: John Maeda

John Maeda, pioneer of programmatic design, delivered the closing address at South Africa’s premier conference on creativity, Design Indaba. He spoke to the crowd about the nature of code in art (“Programming is not very complicated, it’s just very boring—It’s what you can do with coding that matters more…

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Design Indaba 2012: The Conference

South Africa’s premier conference on bettering the world through creativity
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Now in its 17th year, the world-class conference, Design Indaba explores how to better the world through creativity and design innovation. For three days, the annual Cape Town-based summit brings together an international collective of visionary leaders to share ideas and new ways of thinking. The conference showcases South Africa as a hotbed for forward-thinking solutions, demonstrating how a country can uniquely shape the future through creative problem-solving.

Each year the conference surpasses itself with the talent presented on stage and in the audience, and as media partners for the third year in row, we will be sharing some of the wisdom delivered at Design Indaba. Keep an eye out for more to come from the minds of people like scent artist Sissel Tolaas, Noma mastermind René Redzepi, landscape designer Dan Pearson and more. To keep up with the conference as it happens, follow Cool Hunting and Design Indaba on Twitter.