• See what creativity can do
    A round-up of highlights at the upcoming Design Indaba Conference and Expo 2008. >
  • Design Indaba Conference 2008
    Design Indaba Conference 2008
    Conference
    In 2008, the Design Indaba Conference was sold out for the fourth year running. >
  • Electric wheels for SA
    Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >
  • Art container
    One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >
  • Monument to the now
    The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >
  • New Africa
    Africa Remix for design
    The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >
  • Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey
    William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour. >
  • The plight of healing plants
    Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • The public secret of avatars
    Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Underground at Woolworths
    Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >
  • Simon Waterfall
    Waterfall on the digital “now”
    The Times, in association with Design Indaba and D&AD, hosted two workshops in October with UK's Simon Waterfall. >
  • The bobo movement
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >
  • MCQP is FAB
    What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >
  • Tsai times two
    Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >
  • Shoe-wow!
    Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >
  • Tall tale for kids
    Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >
  • Design Indaba 2008: Create a better world
    Leading creative thinkers will converge at the Design Indaba Conference from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 2008. >
  • Kill the copy cat
    Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >
  • Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
    In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington. >
  • Brian Eno on the purpose of art
    Brian Eno on the purpose of art
    Celebrated artist and producer Brian Eno shares some of his theories on a range of topics, including evolution and art, at Design Indaba Conference 2007. >

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