INTERACT / Design Indaba 2009


Why Designer John Bielenberg Thinks Wrong John Bielenberg thinks wrong. And he's changing the world, one design project at a time. Design Indaba chats to this mastermind about his creative progeny. Article
Creative redesigns at DI2011 From housing solutions and designing for disability to branding and fun, the 2011 Design Indaba Conference had something for everybody. News Snippet
Biomega NYC bike winner announced The ideas for how to encourage cycling in SA cities were all brilliant but there can be only winner. And that is… News Snippet
SMS answers from Karin Fong Karin Fong creates cinematic experiences that capture the imagination. Here she answers SMS questions sent to her during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Lowery Stokes Sims The creative mind behind the renowned Global Africa Project, Lowery Stokes Sims answers the SMS questions sent to her during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Fibra Bruno Temer from Brazilian sustainable design studio Fibra answers SMS questions about palm bi-products and funding innovation. News Snippet
SMS answers from Oded Ezer Few things can make typography as exciting as Oded Ezer seems to naturally make it. Here he answers SMS questions sent during Design Indaba. News Snippet
SMS answers from Jens Martin Skibsted In a Springbok rugby jersey Jens Martin Skibsted campaigned for more bicycles in cities at Design Indaba. Here he answers SMS questions. News Snippet
Leopard's Leap becomes the taste of the town Leopard's Leap were the proud wine suppliers of the 2011 Design Indaba Dine-Around. News Snippet
Win a Biomega NYC bike Tweet your inspired ideas on how to encourage cycling in South African cities before 21 March and you could win a Biomega NYC bike. News Snippet

15.12

The Times

CREATIVE CLUB: Bright sparks unite

A new platform - with "parties to save the world" - encourages entrepreneurs to creatively solve tough challenges.

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28.02

d'Afrique

Verrassende Creaties

Van 25 tot en met 27 februari stond Kaapstad in het teken van de Design Indaba Expo. D'Afrique is er ook, op zoek naar nieuwe opvallende en verrassende creaties van Zuid-Afrikaanse ontwerpers.

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27.03

d'Afrique

Design Explosie

Van 25 tot en met 27 februari stond het Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) vol met Afrikaans design. Design in de meest brede zin: architectuur, interieur, accessoires, grafisch ontwerp, industrieel ontwerp, film, sieraden, nieuwe media, fashion, kunst... Het was er allemaal.

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20.05

Parool

Design uit Zuid-Afrika

Niet al het design dat in Amsterdam te koop is, is van Nederlandse makelij. Mariette de Haan vond in Afrika design dat opwindend, vrij, kleurrijk, ruig en gemixt is.

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11.05

Enjin

Design by Ubuntu

Billionaires are not as rare as they used to be. When one sits on the stairs next to you at Design Indaba (he came in late and could not find a seat) the rebel in you smirks.

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01.06

WGSN Homebuildlife

HBL Interview: Natalie du Toit of Indigi Designs

During this year's Design Indaba in South Africa, WGSN-homebuildlife came across the work of new design brand Indigi Designs. We loved their mix of traditional South African colour and pattern with characterful, contemporary forms, and we spoke to Indigi Design's founder Natalie Du Toit to find out what inspires her collections.

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19.05

MSN Business

Opening a window into the design heart of Africa

Another reason was that after seeing the Global Africa Project, Ravi Naidoo who heads up The Design Indaba in Cape Town, had invited its curators, Lowery Sims and Leslie King Hammond, to address both the prestigious Design Indaba Conference as well as make a presentation to Expo participants at the February show.

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18.05

Fast Company

Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré Repurposes European Techniques for his Native Country

African-born architect Francis Kéré gets big results by mixing a little mud with a lot of heart.

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25.02

Proudly Afrikan

LADUMA NGXOKOLO’S DESIGN INDABA

As usual, the exclusive South African expo managed to collect the most inspiring leaders of contemporary art and design from around the world. One of the most memorable speakers for me was our own Laduma Ngxokolo.

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28.04

Clear Magazine

New Urban Gardening Sensation Wallflowerᵀᴹ Vertical Garden Vows to Green the Concrete Jungle

Wallflowerᵀᴹ Vertical Garden, designed by Haldane Martin, is a modular planter system designed to enable city dwellers to grow veggies and other plants on vertical walls – greening the concrete jungle!

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21.04

EgoDesign

Creative Celebration at DI2011 Expo in Cape Town

Design Indaba Expo 2011 was more than a showcase of local creativity, it was a celebration of design, culture, innovation and fun.

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25.02

Marshall Hinds

GRAPHIC LAMINATES

The annual Design Indaba is always a place of innovation and creative discussion and this year’s (2011) was no exception with a host of fascinating keynote speakers, a film festival and the Design Indaba Expo – a hotbed of activity for many a creative and retail talent.

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Lucire

In living colour

Design Indaba, the hands-on, break-out fashion and lifestyle expo, keeps the youth, energy and optimism of the “new South Africa” relevant nearly two decades into the country’s new era.

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Fast Company

New Shakespeare Stamps Put The Bard's Drama Onto Teeny Stage

Professional designers learn early to work within constraints: time, budget, materials, price. But the team at the London graphic arts firm hat-trick design has a special knack for a particularly daunting creative challenge: delivering big design on a tiny canvas.

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12.04

Silicon Cape Initiative

TECH & THE DESIGN INDABA: Taking stock of our creative enterprise potential

The recent Design Indaba highlighted the creative elements of South Africa’s entrepreneurial culture. With some tech exhibitions and a keynote address from Google’s Robert Wong, any of us familiar with California could easily have felt were at a high tech US convention.

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5.5 designers Since 2003, 5.5 designers have established an enviable reputation, being awarded the Grand Prix de la Création by the Paris City Council...	BarberOsgerby After completing their Masters in Architecture at the Royal College of Art, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded BarberOsgerby in 1996 and...	Commonwealth David Boira and Zoë Coombes are two architecturally trained furniture designers who work together under the studio name Commonwealth,...	Dai Fujiwara Dai Fujiwara joined the Miyake Design Studio in 1994 upon graduating from the Dyeing and Weaving Course at Tama Art University. After...	Dunne&Raby Dunne&Raby – Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby – use design as a medium to stimulate debate among designers, industry and the public about...
Ferran Adrià Ferran Adrià is the famed head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Spain. elBulli has three Michelin stars and has been ranked first in the S...	Frank Tjepkema After studying at the Technical University of Delft for two years, Frank Tjepkema graduated in 1996 from the Design Academy Eindhoven....	Keith Helfet Born in Calvinia, South African Keith Helfet studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cape Town before doing a Masters in...	Li Edelkoort Li Edelkoort is a trend forecaster, educator, curator and publisher based in Paris. She has fostered design’s creative talent as chairwoman...	Luyanda Mpahlwa Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa is principal and director of MMA Architects in Cape Town. Mpahlwa completed his National Architectural Diploma in...
Marian Bantjes Marian Bantjes has been variously described as a typographer, designer, artist and writer. Working from her base on a small island off the...	AdamsMorioka Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka founded AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills in 1994. The simplicity of their work has attracted leading clients...	Marcel Wanders Marcel Wanders grew up in Boxtel, the Netherlands, and graduated cum laude from the School of the Arts Arnhem (now ArtEZ Institute of the...	Nobumichi Tosa With a Masters in Art from Tsukuba University in Japan, Nobumichi Tosa established Maywa Denki with his brother in 1993. Initially an...	Patricia Urquiola There’s very little Patricia Urquiola hasn’t turned her hand to in the field of design. Since establishing her studio in 2001, her prolific...
Rick Valicenti Rick Valicenti is founder and design director of Thirst, a communication design firm devoted to art, function and real human presence. His...	Stephen Burks With his New York studio, Readymade Projects, Stephen Burks has been responsible for creative design direction on projects ranging from...	W+K Delhi W+K Delhi was formed in 2007 with the merger of Wieden+Kennedy and A, a Delhi-based creative agency. Founders of A in 2004, managing...	Bruce Mau Bruce Mau is a critical thinker, visionary and voice in our modern world. Igniting revolution within industries ranging from corporate and...	Craig Wessels Craig Wessels studied graphic design at the Natal Technikon in Durban. During his compulsory military service he began studying for a...

V Sunil interview

V Sunil from W+K Delhi provides an insightful interpretation of India's creative industries.

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Design Indaba Conference 2009

The Design Indaba Conference 2009, like its predecessors, was a meeting, networking, and inspiring, of our time's greatest creative minds.

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DI2009 speakers talk about SA

World-renowned designers discuss South Africa - a country that Rick Valicenti refers to as, "a charmed and emerging place".

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Design Indaba 2009

This quick synopsis of Design Indaba 2009 celebrates its slogan – a better world through creativity.

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5.5 designers at DI2009

Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status

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What can your creativity do at DI2009

We ask some of the 30 conference speakers what they can do with their creativity during the speakers' final lunch.

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Revital Cohen Pecha Kucha

Royal College of Arts top graduate in interaction design, Revital Cohen presents her provocative work in Pecha Kucha format.

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Nobumichi Tosa at DI2009

Nobumichi Tosa's quirky and inspired, youthful perspective is made manifest in his limitless innovations - his "nonsense machines".

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Stephen Burks at DI2009

Stephen Burks discusses his recent work with African artisans and craftsmen - addressing issues of collaboration and distribution.

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Commonwealth at DI2009

Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies elegant design, through engagement with both newest of tools and the oldest technologies.

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Ferran Adrià

Food is the only creative act that we put into our bodies. Ferran Adrià talks about the significance of this.

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Barbara Cilliers

Barbara Cilliers makes information design relevant in a South African context.

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Sandhya Lalloo

Sandhya Lalloo’s work looks at the spiritual experience of designing clothing.

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Lauren Mackler

There are different artistic formats through which to tell stories in a visual way, discovers Lauren Mackler .

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Revital Cohen

Revital Cohen considers how technology affects biology by focusing specifically on the human body.

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Arno Mathies

Arno Mathies talks about luxury, industrial design and the influences in his own work

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Jon Stam

Jon Stam shares six projects he created that all have the common theme of “designing for and from personal memory”.

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Roger Smythe

Roger Smythe explains that when Masters and Savant Worldwide was established, they wanted to give both their clients and team an incredible experience.

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