September 2012 Archive

Streetwise Design

Do Tank News • 13 Sep 12

The Your Street Challenge aims to bring design back into underprivileged communities through form and function. >
Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect

Talks • Duration: 00:41:22 • 13 Sep 12

For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society. >
Bjarke Ingels: Users are the experts in architecture

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:00 • 14 Sep 12

For Bjarke Ingels users are the experts when it comes to understanding how to design a building for a specific function. >
Y Tsai on how to use design to make a social impact

Talks • Duration: 00:18:47 • 14 Sep 12

Y Tsai uses his past and current projects to demonstrate how designers can make a dent in the universe by means of social improvement. >
Through the lens of Satyendra Pakhalé

Inside View • 17 Sep 12

Imaginative, insightful and culturally diverse, designindaba.com will be publishing a monthly contribution by award-winning designer Satyendra Pakhalé. >
Casual form

Design News • 17 Sep 12

Karim Rashid's new Juga chair is the ideal fit for the human form, and speaks to the needs of the contemporary, "casual" age. >
Seats for seeing

Design News • 17 Sep 12

Nendo's Mimicry Chairs bring a new kind of "funky" to museum seating. Take a look at what they did for the V&A in London. >
Lolita

Design News • 18 Sep 12

Ron Arad's "Lolita" installation looks to the sharing of personal memories. >
Just About Now

Design News • 18 Sep 12

Maarten Baas's timepiece, Just About Now, for Laikingland can be seen at the London Design Festival. >
Wild life

Design News • 18 Sep 12

Inspired by the Big Five, Cath Price Ceramics are quirky, original and getting much love. >
Design awarded

Design News • 18 Sep 12

Innovation, design, technology and creativity gets awarded at the A'Design Awards, which celebrates "superior designs for a better future". >
Design Indaba partners with AGI Open Hong Kong 2012

Digital News • 18 Sep 12

Design Indaba will be attending AGI Open in Hong Kong as official media partners to cover the two-day graphic design conference, this year themed Heaven + Hell. >
Integrated hospitality

Design News • 19 Sep 12

Eat, drink, sleep, browse, pamper and be inspired at Hôtel Droog, a new cultural hub in the heart of Amsterdam. >
Renée Rossouw on finding her own identity through design

Talks • Duration: 00:07:42 • 19 Sep 12

Renée Rossouw reveals how her inspiration from urban environments plays a fundamental role in her unique design process. >
Tables & chairs

Design News • 19 Sep 12

Ineke Hans's new collection of tables and chairs can be seen at the London Design Festival this week. >
Carly Berger on sustainable housing solutions

Talks • Duration: 00:06:41 • 19 Sep 12

Carly Berger investigates how green housing solutions can successfully be implemented in neighbourhoods. >
For the love of design

Festival News • 19 Sep 12

Design Indaba 2012 was a drool-worthy affair packed with colour, pattern and the best in local design. Here’s a recap of what went down... >
Drawings of origin

Design News • 20 Sep 12

Inspired by the oldest intact human fossil, Drawing on Origins is a body of creative work at the intersection of architecture and archeology. >
Buried in time

Design News • 20 Sep 12

Some of the world's foremost architects and designers selected objects to bury in a time capsule! Take a look inside... >
Switched on

Design News • 21 Sep 12

Inga Sempé's new range of electrical accessories takes the shock out of these everyday household objects, and switches it on - aesthetically! >
Online FilmFest – A first for designindaba.com

Festival News • 21 Sep 12

In the spirit of presenting great design content, we are excited to introduce the Design Indaba Online FilmFest - happening this October on designindaba.com. >
Art in Miniature

Design News • 21 Sep 12

The "Art in Miniature" exhibition celebrates the creativity and artistry often found on the humble postage stamp. >
Violet's Walk, Woodstock

Video Interviews • 21 Sep 12

Violet's Walk, one of the winners in the Cape Town leg of the Your Street Challenge, has been fully implemented in Woodstock. >
David Adjaye at AZA 2012

Video Interviews • 21 Sep 12

As a discipline architecture needs to rethink what it does best, and how it serves people, David Adjaye believes. >

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