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  • July 2019, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center - Photo: Ossip van Duivenbode
    Tech that reawakens awe – studio DRIFT's kinetic installations to light up #DI2020
    Festival News > Art & Photography / Craft / Design Thinking / Interaction Design
    The multidisciplinary studio will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020. >
    11 Dec 19
  • The Strangelings
    Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture
    Design Frontiers > Art & Photography
    Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal. >
    3 Jul 17
  • "Birds of Dakar" Fall/Winter 2015 by Selly Raby Kane.
    Selly Raby Kane's "Birds of Dakar" collection
    Lookbook > African Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Birds of a feather flock with denizens of the deep in experimental fashion designer Selly Raby Kane's Fall/Winter 2015 collection. >
    10 Jun 15
  • AGI Open 2013: Stefan Sagmeister
    Stefan Sagmeister: Bring the personal and the human into design
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Stefan Sagmeister talks about 'The Happy Film', his studio and his advice to young designers. Please note: this film contains nudity. >
    15 Oct 13
  • Dominic Harris
    Dominic Harris: Lighting can transform mood
    Video Interviews > Product Design
    “Lighting can transform the mood of a person,” says Dominic Harris. He believes in using lighting to achieve advanced effects. >
    19 Oct 12
  • Cultural magnetism
    Design News > Craft / Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Director of the Museum of Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Mexico, Regina Pozo Ruiz gives a whistle-stop-tour of contemporary design. >
    3 Aug 11
  • Roughing it at Milan2011
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Rough & Ready is an experimental range of furniture inspired by explorations of the unpredictable. >
    19 Apr 11
  • Oded Ezer
    “My name is Oded Ezer and I am a typoholic”, is how typographer, type designer, artist and teacher Oded Ezer introduces himself. >
    30 Nov 10
  • Beverley Price in her studio (2013)
    Beverley Price
    Beverley Price is a jewellery artist who lives in Johannesburg. >
    14 Feb 09
  • Oog on Droog
    Design News > Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design
    Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry. >
    1 Aug 06
  • Designers forum Q&A
    Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Delve into your favourite designers' minds and find out what makes their creative juices flow. >
    1 Aug 04
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