Beaded iPhone Cover by Vukile BatyiIt takes Durban-based designer Vukile Batyi two days to hand stitch all the beads on one of his unique Afro-bling cell phone covers. "I want to push them to the next level,” he says. “I don't want any to look similar.” Batyi collaborates with his mentor and friend Laduma Ngxokolo, whose Xhosa-inspired knitware has similar motifs. The Emerging Creatives program, in which Batyi participated, had a breakout year, collectively showing much stronger and more developed work than before. Photo 4 of 7 in Finds from Design Indaba by Rebecca L. Weber

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Beaded iPhone Cover by Vukile BatyiIt takes Durban-based designer Vukile Batyi two days to hand stitch all the beads on one of his unique Afro-bling cell phone covers. "I want to push them to the next level,” he says. “I don't want any to look similar.” Batyi collaborates with his mentor and friend Laduma Ngxokolo, whose Xhosa-inspired knitware has similar motifs. The Emerging Creatives program, in which Batyi participated, had a breakout year, collectively showing much stronger and more developed work than before.