Stocktown visits Nairobi

Stocktown visits Nairobi

It’s been an awesome chance for us this year to meet some of our beloved online friends from Stocktown the online culture video site. Directors, Teddy Goitom and Benjamin Taft spent their time in Nairobi & Mombasa following musicians, a boxer and interviewing places and people of interest. Following their time in Nairobi, they shot this video featuring neo soul artist Anto and the paragasha band joined forces. Over 100 dancers met up to be in the video Querwty Love for Anto & the paragasha band. With its spontaneity in dance, they planned out flashmob dance video…

African Weekly Inspiration 97

African Weekly Inspiration 97

Every week African Digital Art showcases digital projects made by African artists or projects influenced by Africa. It is exciting to see African projects that displays and encourages creativity. Inspiration is a key component in the design process so we searched the web for the best projects from a variety of genres. We are here to promote your work so don’t forget to send us your recommendations. We recently introduced our online community The District, Africa’s creative online space. If you are interested in submitting your work please join the…

David Osagie’s Occupy Nigeria

David Osagie’s Occupy Nigeria

A few weeks ago Nigeria joined the Occupy movement as Nigierian political leaders decided to go against reforms to distribute Nigeria’s oil rich economy to their citizens. Like many movements throughout Africa for the past 18months portfolio’s are now reflecting the political climate around creatives in Africa and the globe. David Osagie is a Nigerian digital artist whose work features art pieces stained in grunge and deep African style. His most recent work has been influenced by the occupy movement in Nigeria.

Road to Luxor

Road to Luxor

Don’t you love road trips? Well now you have the opportunity to ride across Egyptian countryside with Austrian photographer, Atelier Olschinsky on his way to Luxor, Egypt.

Journey through Southern and Eastern Africa

Journey through Southern and Eastern Africa

Photographer Dillon Marsh chronicles his journey through Southern and Eastern Africa. Marsh travelled from Nairobi to Cape Town over the course of two months using only public transportation.

Welcome to African Digital Art

African Digital Art has presented unparalleled ideas, individual work by insightful designers and creatives across the globe. ADA has become a platform for innovation and inspiration with a sophisticated blend of fresh talent and successful designers and artists. Pushing Digital Boundaries has become the tag line that is now fused with ADA’s identity. As we navigate together, discovering new design solutions, artistic expressions and creative talent, we constantly strive to foster the growing technology driven creative community.

Global African Design, Art & Culture

We are shifting direction, from being a mere reflection of the innovative projects on the cutting edge between technology and design to breaking ground with experiments on the axis of technology and design. We are driven by this one question, Can we use art and design to find alternative ways of thinking about contemporary African society?

YES: Design is inextricably linked with the modernization of society in the 20th century and we strongly believe that creative culture has a profound impact in the way we will understand Africa in the future.

Pushing Digital Boundaries

We invite you to take part in our exploration of the forces of the community in the true belief that “open source’ platforms are an essential source of ideas that enable us to develop and create outside the boundaries of our limitations.