2009 Archive

SOUTH awards announcement

Do Tank News • 27 Mar 09

The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade. >
DI Party 2009

Festival News • 26 Mar 09

The annual Design Indaba party is a celebratory spectacle, showcasing top local musical and creative talent. >
Design Indaba Conference 2009

Festival News • 25 Mar 09

Design Indaba Conference took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 25 to 27 February 20009. >
W+K Delhi answers all at DI2009

Design News • 20 Mar 09

V Sunil of W+K Delhi responds to Design Indaba Conference 2009 audience questions submitted via SMS. >
Design Indaba 2009 imagines the future

Festival News • 20 Mar 09

The 2009 Design Indaba Conference and Expo challenged creatives to imagine, make and realise a better world through creativity. >
SOUTH winner announced at DI2009

Festival News • 19 Mar 09

The R100 000 SOUTH award winner is: Architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer for his Spaza-De-Move-On. >
Haldane Martin Pecha Kucha

Talks • Duration: 00:03:14 • 19 Mar 09

Established South African furniture designer Haldane Martin discusses his work and inspiration. >
Dai Fujiwara answers all at DI2009

Design News • 19 Mar 09

Dai Fujiwara, creative director of Issey Miyake, responds to Design Indaba Conference 2009 audience questions submitted via SMS. >
Revital Cohen Pecha Kucha

Talks • 19 Mar 09

Royal College of Arts top graduate in interaction design, Revital Cohen presents her provocative work in Pecha Kucha format. >
Best of Bowwow winner!

Do Tank News • 18 Mar 09

Inhouse Brand Architects's decorated Magis puppy, Caste-Aside, has been judged top dog in the South African leg of the Bowwow Contest. >
Commonwealth answers all at DI2009

Design News • 16 Mar 09

David Boira and Zoë Coombes of Commonwealth are two architecturally trained furniture designers. >
Stephen Burks answers all at DI2009

Design News • 16 Mar 09

Design Indaba 2009 was not Stephen Burks’s first visit to South Africa. >
Dwayne Spradlin answers all at DI2009

Festival News • 16 Mar 09

Dwayne Spradlin is at the helm of Innocentive.com, a website that brings the crowdsourcing and inventiveness of Web 2.0 together. >
Nobumichi Tosa's bright peace world

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:02:06 • 6 Mar 09

Nobumichi Tosa's quirky and inspired, youthful perspective is made manifest in his limitless innovations – his "nonsense machines". >
Stephen Burks: Connecting design to people

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:01:52 • 6 Mar 09

Stephen Burks discusses his recent work with African artisans and craftsmen – addressing issues of collaboration and distribution. >
Commonwealth at DI2009

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:15 • 6 Mar 09

Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies elegant design, through engagement with both newest of tools and the oldest technologies. >
SOUTH film: Excerpt 2 of 2

Do Tank News • 6 Mar 09

Another short out-take from the recently completed SOUTH documentary, that had its debut during the film festival at the Design Indaba Expo. >
SOUTH film: Excerpt 1 of 2

Do Tank News • 6 Mar 09

An excerpt from the SOUTH documentary, that debuted during the film festival at the Design Indaba Expo in 2009. >
The South and MBOISA award winners

Do Tank News • 3 Mar 09

The winning entries of the SOUTH and Most Beautiful Object in South Africa awards were announced at the Design Indaba Expo 2009. >
Touch of madness adds edge to Design Indaba’s barrage of beauty

Festival News • 2 Mar 09

The constant barrage of creativity and beauty at the Design Indaba conference, held for three days every February in Cape Town, is exhausting. >
Masters of unreality get real

Festival News • 26 Feb 09

Reality and humanity strode on to the stage at this year’s Design Indaba, responding perhaps to the wake-up call offered by the global economic crisis. >
Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba Expo

Festival News • 24 Feb 09

For the first time this year, Design Indaba Expo will be hosting two Pecha Kucha sessions. >
The Free Range for Design Indaba

Do Tank News • 23 Feb 09

By promoting affordable design, Free Range is set to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers. >
South, the new north

Do Tank News • 23 Feb 09

SOUTH is an inversion of hand-me-down Eurocentric creativity. Catch the SOUTH exhibition, award and film at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >

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