• Truncheon lamp by Commonwealth.
    Meet the Truncheons
    At a glance the Truncheon lamps by Commonwealth resemble a weapon, but these finely crafted lights are an interesting mix of old and new. >
  • Diet Scale by Ji Lee.
    Scale scale on the floor
    Maintaining a healthy, balanced diet is often hard work. The innovative Diet Scale tries to make things easier by making meal suggestions. >
  • Parallel World.
    Off the wall, onto the ceiling
    When something is really tiny it’s tempting to call it cute. Ji Lee’s Parallel World installation is cute, but it also just really cool. >
  • Concentrated Solar-Power System - ZenithSolar, Israel, 2009.
    Design, question mark
    From global warming to overpopulation and food shortages, Why Design Now looks at creative solutions for the contemporary world’s problems. >
  • Blank Daily Monster.
    Daily Monster football fever
    Let's have a special word of welcome for the World Cup Edition of the Daily Monster! >
  • GPII logo by Yves Béhar.
    From cradle to consumer
    The Green Products Innovation Institute marks the historic launch of a non-profit organisation promoting sustainable design. >
  • Danielle Zurovcik demonstrates how to use the negative pressure pump to seal an arm wound. Photo: Melanie Gonick.
    Design to heal wounds
    An improved negative-pressure system that doesn’t use batteries or electricity could help to heal many wounds in developing countries. >
  • Cool Hunting
    Cool Hunting is a website that highlights creativity and innovation in design, technology, style, culture, food and travel. >
  • Dr J Craig Venter
    Venter creates synthetic life
    We finally know why Dr J Craig Venter could not attend the 2010 Design Indaba Conference in person. Yesterday he announced his breakthrough. >
  • Sun Boxes by Craig Colorusso
    Sound or sci-fi?
    Speakers that look like washing machines with solar panels attached to them in the middle of the desert? >
  • Courtesy of The Museum of Se[x].
    A rubber history
    While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it. >
  • Courtesy of Jimmyjane/Fuseproject.
    Double the fun
    The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series. >
  • 344 Questions on the Way to Wisdom poster.
    The other 90%
    Maciek Dubla talks to Stefan G Bucher about being responsible to your ideas, and the need to control your greed. >
  • Ferran Adrià
    Ferran Adrià to teach at Harvard
    Culinary genius and past Design Indaba speaker, Ferran Adrià will soon swop his apron for a lab coat. >
  • James Victore Design
    Step into an art director’s shoes
    Renowned creatives were asked to customise a pair of Toms Shoes as part of the Art Directors Club’s Designism 4.0 annual forum. >
  • Gary Hustwit answers all at DI2010
    Director of Objectified and Helvetica, Gary Hustwit makes the films that he wants to see but haven't yet been made. >
  • readymadeprojects
    What is a hybrid?
    Inspired by cultural mash-ups and globalisation, Stephen Burks collaborates on a series that explores hybridity in colourful assemblages. >
  • Wooster Collective answers all at DI2010
    “Why would an artist risk arrest in order to create?” asked Mark and Sara Schiller of the Wooster Collective. >
  • Play DJ with Spooky iPhone app
    In conjunction with the launch of his latest album, The Secret Song, DJ Spooky has launched a DJ-mixing iPhone app of the same name. >
  • William Drenttel answers all at DI2010
    “What does it mean to be a designer?” asked William Drenttel throughout his reflexive, socially conscious presentation. >
  • Michael Bierut answers all at DI2010
    Maverick design writer, graphic designer and snappy conference MC, Michael Bierut answers DI2010 audience questions. >
  • Stefan G Bucher answers all at DI2010
    Stefan G Bucher – monster god, kerning extraordinaire and sometime designer – answers SMS questions from the DI2010 audience. >
  • Martha Stewart at Design Indaba Expo
    Design Indaba and Woolworths present domestic diva Martha Stewart on Saturday 27 February 2010. Book at Computicket. >
  • Str.smarts
    Wooster Collective founders Marc and Sara Schiller discuss the coming-of-age of street art and its significance to the cities it populates. >

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