Cape Town

Carla Kreuser

Graphic Designer • Illustrator

Carla Kreuser is a creative director at The Jupiter Drawing Room in Cape Town. >
Art in the Forest

Design Studio

Art in the Forest is a Cape Town-based ceramics centre managed and run by South African master potter Anthony Shapiro. >
Dreams of design activism at Design Indaba 2015

Afritorial features Design Indaba 2015 and what to expect from it. >
The ghetto romance of gqom

The flavourful sound of local music genre gqom has found an unlikely champion in British DJ Jumping Back Slash. >
#MakeChange: Retail therapy for the homeless

The Street Store extends the popular pop-up store trend onto the pavement to give homeless people the joy of shopping. For free. >
Meet Design Indaba's Ravi Naidoo, the man who helped bring the World Cup to SA

Cape Talk Bruce Whitfield interviews Design Indaba creator, Ravi Naidoo. >
Help for the homeless

Design Indaba’s 2015 creative campaign Make. Change., in partnership with The Jupiter Drawing Room and The Haven, aims to improve the lives of the homeless. >
Design Indaba presents William Kentridge’s ‘Refuse The Hour’

Between10and5 features William Kentridge's masterpiece, happening this month as part of Design Indaba Festival 2015. >
Project Phoenix

Roger, a former member of the dreaded Numbers Gang, is marked with the tattoos from his days in the gangs. He reforms his life with the help of a tattoo artist. >
How art helped a former gangster rise from the ashes

Project Phoenix is a film about a former member of the feared South African Numbers Gang and how creativity helped turn his life around. >
Take Five

Nostalgic over a little boy and his stuffed tiger, readers were intrigued to know what happened to Bill Watterson and his cartoon, "Calvin & Hobbes". >
Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Stefan Scholten talks about the design philosophy behind the Amsterdam-based firm he runs with his wife, Scholten & Baijings. >
Keep on truckin'

The "godfather" of the Californian food truck movement is coming to Cape Town. It’s a good thing we’ll have 14 food trucks on tap. >
Mzukisi Mbane

Fashion Designer

Mzukisi Mbane is a fashion designer and part of the 2015 Emerging Creatives programme. >
Alexander's Band

Illustrator

Alexander's Band is a Cape Town-based representation service for South African illustrators. >
Lisp

Fashion Designer

Lisp is a Cape Town-based clothing label and lifestyle brand owned by Maria Paymans and Oriel Barnard. >
Midrand Graduate Institute

Academic

Midrand Graduate Institute offers higher education qualifications at its 13 campuses across South Africa. >
I Scream & Red

Product Designer • Social Entrepreneur

I Scream & Red is a Cape Town-based company that creates bags from recycled seat belts, car upholstery and fabric sample books. >
Born to create

Emerging Creative Bonga Jwambi designs with an impulse to make things no one has seen before. >
Balance and disorder

Ceramicist Martine Jackson has partnered with fine artist Galia Gluckman to produce a vibrant range of limited edition, hand-coiled pots. >
Sakawa Boys: Putting constraints on creativity

In this interview with the Sakawa Boys, performers at Design Indaba Music 2015, the band talks about the joy of playing live but the struggle to make ends meet. >
Hip hop and haute couture and Calvin & Hobbes

Design Indaba FilmFest 2015 returns to South Africa's oldest indie cinema with a lineup of all South African premieres, and soon-to-be announced world premiere. >
Trailer: Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Husband-and-wife team Scholten & Baijings tell us how they transform sterile mass-produced items into designs with a personal touch. >
Don't Party

Publisher

Don't Party has provided a platform for African subcultural conversation since 2009. >

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