• Digital is not the answer
    During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
  • Metal muscle
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • ‘You can’t bomb an idea’
    The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >
  • Online innovation
    Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies. >
  • Super normal
    Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >
  • Brian Eno
    Man about town
    During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis. >
  • The art of looking sideways
    Design Indaba magazine pays tribute to graphic design guru Alan Fletcher. >
  • Rural renewal
    One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >
  • High Priestman
    Paul Priestman's divine designs include super trains, gigantic aeroplanes and even a humble kitchen knife block. >
  • David Adjaye 2006
    Design Indaba Classic: David Adjaye, Starchitect
    Renowned architect David Adjaye was named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2017. >
  • De-colonising design
    What would the design landscape of Africa look like if colonialism had never happened? Carl Harrison asks the tricky, pertinent question… >
  • David the Goliath
    A "starchitect" with an artistic vision, David Adjaye's London-based studio is winning some of the world's most prestigious commissions. >
  • The photographic cartoonist
    Sean O’Toole chats with the acclaimed photographer and contemporary satirist, Alison Jackson. >
  • The optimist on the designer optimised
    Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design. >
  • Accidental designer
    Jennifer Fair interviews jewellery designer, style leader and taste maker Solange Azagury-Partridge. >
  • Future perfect
    Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK), writes about the architectural achievements of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. >
  • Contradiction
    Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher creative partner, writes about the challenges of packaging design. >
  • Fertile Arad
    Tom Roope interviews Ron Arad. >
  • Avant garden
    Spring has sprung in the UK and Dan Pearson is busy, writes Lynda Relph-Knight. >
  • New Order – FAC 93 Confusion (1983). Record cover by Factory Records. Artwork by Peter Saville and Phill Pennington, Typography Brett Wickens.
    Saville raw
    Sean O'Toole poses a few questions to Peter Saville and these are his pure, raw unedited answers. >
  • Love grove
    Sean O'Toole spoke to Ross Lovegrove about his passion for fluid lines - and sculpture. >
  • Happy camper
    Sean O’Toole spoke to Shubhankar Ray, whose collaborative partners have included some of the world’s most successful fashion brands. >

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