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  • My lights manifesto
    Interviews • 1 Aug 06
    Named as the 2006 Elle Decoration South Africa Designer of the Year, Heath Nash excels at making treasures from trash. >
  • Zulu Mama Chair by Haldane Martin
    My furniture manifesto
    Creative Work • 1 Aug 06
    Haldane Martin's pieces say a lot about their creator. Here, their creator says a lot about his pieces. >
  • Rural renewal
    Point of View • 1 Aug 06
    One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >
  • Shades of green
    Point of View • 1 Aug 06
    In this series, some of our most able designers, art directors and illustrators drop thought-provoking image bombs. >
  • Mission rescue
    Creative Work • 1 Aug 06
    Photographer Clinton Friedman is raising awareness about the illegally harvested medicinal plants that he saves from "muti" markets. >
  • Walk on the wild side
    Creative Work • 1 Aug 06
    A pro bono campaign by the award-winning Jupiter Drawing Room tells people to take a hike. >
  • Gaining ground
    Design Indaba News • 1 May 06
    Each year the Design Indaba Conference gains impetus, assembling the world's most pioneering and perceptive minds. >
  • Brand the beloved country
    Design Indaba News • 1 May 06
    Founder Ravi Naidoo introduces Design Indaba's Brand the Beloved Country project. >
  • Why brand a nation?
    Interviews • 1 May 06
    Thebe Ikalafeng gets the inside track from the globe's leading nation branding specialists, Simon Anholt and Wally Olins. >
  • Selling SA: View to a thrill
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    HKLM uses a viewfinder to show brand South Africa at its best. >
  • Selling SA: Flying high
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    Two Tone flights the national bird as a symbol of our country's future. >
  • Selling SA: Feel it!
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    In branding South Africa, Switch delivers an icon that comes from the heart. >
  • High Priestman
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    Paul Priestman's divine designs include super trains, gigantic aeroplanes and even a humble kitchen knife block. >
  • Mr Pen
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    Emile Pen has the illustration world's most fortunate surname, accompanied by a signature style that has more to do with sheer talent. >
  • Hand in
    Point of 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. >
  • Fashion revolution
    Point of View • 1 May 06
    After centuries of international copying, the past decade has proved revolutionary for SA fashion, writes Adam Levin. >
  • Blurring the brief
    Creative Work • 1 May 06
    Iconic theatre impresario and iconoclastic designer, Pluto Panoussis presents a retrospective spanning 10 years of his theatre posters. >
  • New media marvels
    Point of View • 1 May 06
    Getting animated about this year's new media superheroes is CNMA judge and editor of the UK's Creative Review magazine, Patrick Burgoyne. >
  • Moving on up
    Point of View • 1 Feb 06
    Going high-tech isn't always the answer to rural transport problems. Sometimes the way forward lies with simple yet sustainable solutions. >
  • Design Philistines?
    Point of View • 1 Feb 06
    Does South Africa have a design culture? Not really, opines award-winning industrial designer Bernard Smith. >
  • A new visual taal
    Creative Work • 1 Feb 06
    The next generation of "alternatiewe" Afrikaners is creating a glorious, guilt-free visual language for the South Africa of their tomorrow. >
  • illustration by Christoph Niemann
    From the archives: Head for humour
    Interviews • 1 Feb 06
    Christoph Niemann's pictures paint a thousand witty words. In this interview, we profile the illustrator's more serious side. >
  • Sold!
    Design Indaba 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. >
  • Contact lens
    Point of View • 1 Feb 06
    Making contact, even if only momentarily, with the subject in front of her lens gives upcoming portrait snapper Sarah Nankin her focus. >

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