Articles

  • DesignIssues, Winter 2001, Vol. 17, No. 1
    Past, present, future in design
    Opinion • 1 Nov 03
    Design as we currently understand and practise it is being radically changed on several levels, writes Prof John Heskett. >
  • Viva Afro Diva
    Design News • 1 Nov 03
    In design terms, Afro Diva is the fashion equivalent of wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve. >
  • Expo report
    Festival News • 1 May 04
    We called our first Expo article in Design Indaba magazine "Fringe benefits", so we had to ask some of our exhibitors to speak up on some. >
  • Get a piece of the action
    Festival News • 1 Feb 05
    piece, a Johannesburg-based design organisation, will showcase the work of a number of talented crafters at the 2005 Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Fair play
    Design News • 1 Feb 05
    In Paris recently, Africa Fair presented their Fall/Winter 2005/06 collection. >
  • Zest for Life
    Opinion • 1 Feb 05
    An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London. >
  • Notes from the Fashion Indaba
    Opinion • 1 May 05
    Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis. >
  • Exponential growth
    Festival News • 1 Aug 05
    While the Design Indaba Conference talks the talk, the concurrent Expo walks the walk with a host of gorgeous local products. >
  • The bigger apple
    The bigger apple
    Opinion • 1 Nov 05
    What happens when you take an African-American designer from New York to Africa for the first time and expect him to work with crafters? >
  • Sold!
    Festival News • 1 Feb 06
    If cash is king, then the Design Indaba Expo 2006 will be a right royal affair, what with a record number of buyers due to attend. >
  • Hand in
    Inside View • 1 May 06
    Award-winning author and illustrator Heather Moore gives us a hands-on approach to the modern-day affair with old-fashioned ways. >
  • Gaining ground
    Festival News • 1 May 06
    Each year the Design Indaba Conference gains impetus, assembling the world's most pioneering and perceptive minds. >
  • Growing up
    Festival News • 1 May 06
    Hear what the independent Design Indaba Expo curators have to say about this leading industry event. >
  • Rural renewal
    Opinion • 1 Aug 06
    One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >
  • Zulu Mama Chair by Haldane Martin
    My furniture manifesto
    Design Frontiers • 1 Aug 06
    Haldane Martin's pieces say a lot about their creator. Here, their creator says a lot about his pieces. >
  • Our products manifesto
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >
  • Oog on Droog
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry. >
  • Feast on design
    Festival News • 19 Feb 07
    You’ll be feeding your mind and your imagination at Design Indaba Expo 2007, but you can also appease your appetite. >
  • Global Buyers Trek to Expo
    Festival News • 1 May 07
    This year's Design Indaba Expo attracted a record 137 registered buyers, 66 of them international. >
  • Crafting a difference
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • Art container
    Design News • 15 Nov 07
    One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >
  • Max normal for kids
    Design News • 2 Feb 08
    Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >
  • Carrol Boyes call for entries
    Design News • 2 Feb 08
    Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >
  • Design Indaba Expo: Newcomers set to delight visitors
    Festival News • 12 Feb 08
    Design Indaba Expo, from February 23 to 26, 2008, pushes the boundaries of creative expression with some highly original new exhibitors. >
  • Design Indaba Expo: Most Beautiful Object in South Africa
    Festival News • 20 Feb 08
    The finalists for Design Indaba's Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2008 award have been announced. >
  • Craig Native at Design Indaba Expo 2008
    Reflections of an outsider
    Festival News • 1 May 08
    Visiting South Africa from London, creative industries entrepreneur Eckhard Thiemann reviews Design Indaba Expo 2008. >

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