INSPIRE / MAGAZINE

Q410: Do It Yourself

It’s time to not only design the solution yourself, but do it yourself!

If Apple won us over with the power of design, could design bring Ubuntu to the masses? Guy Bedford gets geeky with Mark Shuttleworth.

In the future gallery of now, photographer Guido Schwarz turns the gaze to nostalgic artefacts that inspirit a second life.

Emily Pilloton is enlisting a new generation of design activists through her work as a high school teacher in North Carolina.

The streets of Brazil are full of startling design solutions by ordinary people driven by pure human need.

A fascinating and emerging design field, a game is one of the most collaborative projects a designer can take on, writes Michael Edwards.

“Get the genius out the building”, is Robert Wong’s brief as creative director of Google Creative Lab.

What would happen if school children in India started designing solutions to social problems? Something very significant...

A Heath Nash chair design that you can make at home.

Whatever we need to do to sustain our lives, nature already does, writes Beth Peterson.

Add water to soil. Mix. Build house. Architect Malcolm Worby crusades the benefits of mud brick building, writes Delia de Villiers.

A splurge of second generation bicycles have recently flooded the design wires.

Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha.

The “Metropolis” edition of Design Indaba magazine considers the world’s expected urban influx and the future role design should play.

The Young Dreamers. Youth is wasted on the young. Youth is the future of culture.

Design Indaba magazine’s 10th birthday edition teams up past and present speakers to discuss design and life.

It’s time to not only design the solution yourself, but do it yourself!