• Design Indaba Expo 2009
    Design Indaba Expo 2009
    Design Indaba is the foremost showcase of bespoke, high-end South African design. >
  • Design Indaba 10x10 Housing Project
    Design Indaba 10x10 Housing Project
    The 10x10 project employs a sandbag-based building method that has irreversibly changed the future possibilities for low-cost housing. >
  • Design Indaba Conference 2009
    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. >
  • Design Indaba Expo 2009
    A showcase of South Africa's emerging creative talent, which attracted buyers, visitors and media coverage worldwide. >
  • Chic Afrique
    In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience. >
  • Koos
    Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released. >
  • Eye of the beholder
    Miss Beautiful is a photographic investigation into South Africa’s pageants by Stan Engelbrecht, with supporting stories by Tamsen de Beer. >
  • Get green, already!
    Going Green by Simon Gear obliterates all silly excuses for not making simple changes that will benefit you, the planet and your fellows. >
  • Third time lucky for Art Vespa entrant
    After three attempts in four years, David Newenhuizen of BandC Group scooped first prize in the 2009 Art Vespa design competition. >
  • The architecture of fashion
    SOUTH award finalist David West launched his Holbol Collection at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town during March. >
  • The hole ad
    For an outdoor campaign for power drill Makita, Saatchi & Saatchi made 20 000 precision drilled holes to create an image of the tool. >
  • Clay spandex
    The 2009 Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Fashion Design went to Jo'burg design duo Black Coffee. >
  • Intimate scale
    Philippe Bousquet, Geraldine Fenn and Marchand van Tonder exhibit their contemporary jewellery at the Bell-Roberts Gallery. >
  • Art funds libraries
    Cape Town's Jupiter Drawing Room agency generate funds for the South African Mobile Libraries Association. >
  • Urban art on auction
    Cape Town graffiti artists raise money for underprivileged communities and new urban art space opens in Woodstock. >
  • 2009 Speakers on South Africa
    DI2009 speakers talk about SA
    World-renowned designers discuss South Africa - a country that Rick Valicenti refers to as, "a charmed and emerging place". >
  • Nampak winners announced
    Professional and student winners of the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge were announced at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Friends of Ruth Prowse
    Help raise funds for disadvantaged students to attend Ruth Prowse School of Art by creating a small art work before 8 June. >
  • Animation meets theatre
    Theatre multi-tasker, Neil Coppen's recent production of Tree Boy introduced design, animation and multimedia to the Durban Playhouse. >
  • Joule on South African roads by 2010
    South Africa's first locally designed and manufactured electric car is ready for production. >
  • Prism awards to champion green design
    Architecture and design students are invited to enter the Plascon Prism awards before 29 May 2009. >
  • SOUTH: The exhibition
    The SOUTH awards and exhibition enthusiastically delight in the promise of South African creativity. >
  • 2009 Design Indaba Overview
    Design Indaba 2009
    This quick synopsis of Design Indaba 2009 celebrates its slogan – a better world through creativity. >

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