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Head start on 2010 fever

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Michael Souter is adding to the 2010 fever with his “makarabas” (sculpted hard hats) that fuse urban culture, design and sporting passion. >
Not just an album design pioneer

Point of View • 1 Feb 09

Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design. >
All hail Gazelle!

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >
Frame the family tree

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”. >
Craft debate: Maxim Velčovský

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Product designer, DI2008 speaker and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participant, Maxim Velčovský weighs in on the craft debate. >
Top SA industrial design

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008. >
A spoonful of sugar

Interviews • 1 Feb 09

Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness. >
Doodle for a Difference

Point of View • 1 Feb 09

Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings. >
Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >
Craft debate: Professor Neil Gershenfeld

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and Design Indaba 2007 speaker, Professor Neil Gershenfeld weighs in on the craft debate. >
Rex shows at the World Bank

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >
Craft debate: Marisa Fick-Jordaan

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Designer, development consultant and Design Indaba Expo curator and exhibitor, Marisa Fick-Jordaan weighs in on the craft debate. >
Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever. >
Made in tjina

Creative Work • 1 Feb 09

Potter John Bauer is immortalising South Africa’s doily heritage through porcelain and has found happiness in craft. >
Worldly stuff

Interviews • 1 Nov 08

Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha. >
Save the designer 5.5

Interviews • 1 Nov 08

Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession. >
Design Indaba film to air

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. >
City of type

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography. >
New fair trade shop in South Africa

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November. >
Hot foreigners in Jozi

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi. >
X-rated peace and diversity

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists. >
Tangible brand marks

Point of View • 1 Nov 08

Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market. >
Four legs good, two legs bad

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others. >
Paula Scher does China

Creative Work • 1 Nov 08

Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >

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