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Take Five

Take Five • 27 Jun 14

From a musical track to a museum that became a typeface - check out the stories that made headlines on designindaba.com this week. >
Inside Out: Peet Pienaar and Heidi Chisholm

Interviews • 27 Jun 14

Graphic designers Peet Pienaar and Heidi Chisholm talk about Africa's connection to their work and living abroad. >
A new app to connect creatives with clients

Creative Work • 26 Jun 14

Creative Cape Town has launched an app that maps the creative industries in the Mother City, making it easier to navigate for potential clients. >
News: Drawings are forever

Creative Work • 26 Jun 14

Ron Arad's newest edition of "Last Train" uses diamonds as a drawing tool to call attention to their strength rather than their preciousness. >
Inside Out: Andrew Whitehouse & Matthew Bull

Interviews • 26 Jun 14

Two South African admen move to New York to start an agency. The punchline? Why not. >
Inside Out: Don Albert & Amanda Laird Cherry

Interviews • 25 Jun 14

Two great South African creative exports – an architect and a fashion designer – discuss the challenges of flexing their creative muscles on the world stage. >
Lookbook: Doing the polka

Creative Work • 25 Jun 14

Laurence Airline's Spring Summer 2015 collection deftly balances graphic pattern with urban un-fussiness. Step into the urban jungle with our gallery of images. >
Fashion films: Elaborate ads or legitimate cinematic works?

Point of View • 25 Jun 14

Are fashion films just advertising wolves in sheep's clothing? We ask five fashion and film fundi where they stand on the burgeoning genre. >
News: New Angle

Creative Work • 24 Jun 14

British fashion designer Paul Smith brings his playful palette to the iconic Anglepoise lamp. >
News: The museum that became a typeface

Creative Work • 23 Jun 14

The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum gets its own typeface and gives it away for free thanks to Eddie Opara's bold new identity makeover. >
Lookbook: Art under foot

Creative Work • 23 Jun 14

Master carpet maker Paco Pakdoust translates contemporary South African artworks into the medium of wool and silk. >
News: Vessyl Cup

Creative Work • 22 Jun 14

Yves Béhar's Vessyl is an elegantly crafted cup that analyses the beverage's contents and enable users to make healthier choices. >
Focus on: Mobility for the future

Focus On • 22 Jun 14

From breakthrough bicycle technology to transport in informal communities, these five designers reveal the power of transport design. >
Product Spotlight: Docks Table Black

Creative Work • 21 Jun 14

Form follows context in Andile Dyalvane's Docks Table Black that reflects the gentrification of the neighbourhood in Cape Town where his studio is located. >
Road works

Creative Work • 21 Jun 14

Traffic cones for tables – Belgian duo Job Smeets and Nynke Tynagel of Studio Job unveil their latest collection entitled "Detour" at Design Miami/Basel 2014. >
Take Five

Take Five • 20 Jun 14

Cities, ceramics and service design grabbed readers' interest this week. Here are the top five stories on designindaba.com. >
MBA Music & the Creative Industries scholarship

Creative Work • 20 Jun 14

Mia van Zyl is the recipient of a MBA Music and the Creative Industries scholarship at Henley Business School valued at R220 000. >
Next Generation: Renee Nicole Sander

Creative Work • 20 Jun 14

What can fashion become when you ignore the natural body form? Renee Nicole Sander explores this question through her graduate fashion collection. >
Product Spotlight: Paradise is Here

Creative Work • 19 Jun 14

Concrete meets chlorophyll in designer Heather Moore's new fabric collection, Paradise is Here, which embraces the contrasting qualities of the urban jungle. >
Is London the design capital of the world?

Point of View • 18 Jun 14

We ask six designers who have made London their home why so many creatives flock to the Big Smoke. >
Product spotlight: Edyn Garden

Creative Work • 17 Jun 14

Stay connected to your garden with the world's first smart garden system and app. >
Ekasi Water Cap

Creative Work • 17 Jun 14

Peter Krige has prototyped a pressure-tight closure that can be fitted onto easily available parts to create a shower for unplumbed homes. >
Lookbook: Urban archaeology

Creative Work • 17 Jun 14

Take a visual journey through the streets of Naples and the inspiration behind Harry Pearce's visual identity for the Made in Cloister project . >
Opinion: Heinrich Wolff on constructing cultural identity in architecture

Point of View • 16 Jun 14

With the Venice Architecture Biennale in full swing, Heinrich Wolff argues that architecture that attempts to define a nation's culture is inauthentic. >

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