• Doug Pray
    Filmmaker
    Doug Pray has directed a number of critically acclaimed feature-length documentary films about American subcultures, artists, and maverick characters. >
  • Moggridge to direct Cooper-Hewitt
    The designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of IDEO, Bill Moggridge is now director of the US national design museum. >
  • The 10 000 hours manifesto
    In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise. >
  • 50c business bible
    The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008. >
  • Living matter for a living world
    The Design for a Living World project and exhibition sees 10 leading designers focus on a natural material from a specific place. >
  • Kenneth Cobonpue visits South Africa
    Washington-based designer Kenneth Cobonpue presented a series of design lectures in Cape Town and Johannesburg. >
  • Bronzed disposables
    The Boym Partners’s new collection, Timeless Objects, attempts to make everyday objects as timeless as ancient bronze monuments. >
  • Reflect your creativity
    Illustrator Joshua Davis has applied his algorithms to his new Reflect iPhone application. >
  • Cement garden
    CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover. >
  • Farm with a view
    Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms. >
  • Crop share actionism
    Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork. >
  • The don of design
    Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >
  • Suburban spread
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Farm footprint
    The Crowd Farm draws energy through a flooring system that responds to human footsteps. >
  • SMS with fish
    Amphibious Architecture is a visual interface that offers a looking glass into the aquatic ecosystem through SMSes. >
  • Earthship
    The Science Barge is a prototype sustainable urban farm and environmental education centre afloat the Hudson River in New York. >
  • Jelly fishfarm
    Somewhere between a biodegradable fish farm and a synthetic reef, Microcosmic Aquaculture is a speculative project. >
  • Growth and death
    Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants. >
  • Social farmwork
    Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan. >
  • Readymade oasis
    Evan Gant’s RainDrops system allows people to adapt standard plastic bottles to an existing gutter system to collect rainwater. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Flower power
    Comprising 15 solar panelled sunflowers, the Electric Garden in Austin, Texas, is literally what its name says. >
  • Robotic aquaculture
    The self-sustaining and untethered Oceansphere is powered by a patent-pending hybrid ocean thermal energy conversion system. >
  • Communal pods
    The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae... >

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