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Dutch design flies into Cape Town

Design News > Product Design

Internationally celebrated Dutch product designer Hella Jongerius has given the KLM World Business Class a completely new look.

25 Feb 15
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Whispering light

Lookbook > Product Design

High Thorn’s signature safari-lodge look moves from driftwood designs to romantic leather.

25 Feb 15
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Chivas wants you to Win The Right Way (Part 2)

Design News > Design Thinking

Chivas Regal announces the three remaining finalists in its "Win The Right Way" competition.

25 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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Chivas wants you to Win The Right Way (Part 1)

Design News > Design Thinking

Chivas Regal announces the first two finalists in their "Win The Right Way" competition.

24 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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Hot hot hot!

Design News > Art & Photography

Local art and design is cooking at Central Kitchen, Nando’s newly revamped main office campus in Johannesburg.

24 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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Patterns and pleats

Next Generation > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jennifer Jacobs tells us about pattern making and how it can empower and inspire.

24 Feb 15
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Charging around

Design News > Industrial Design

The Mellowcab is a fully electric minicab designed to provide an efficient on-demand taxi service in urban areas.

24 Feb 15
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Green ink

Design Frontiers > Design Activism

Hot Ink matches its green credential as one of South Africa's first certified carbon neutral printing companies with a bouquet of specialist services.

24 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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Fantastical flora and fauna

Design News > Product Design

Ardmore's ceramics are prized around the world, and now the second generation of the founder's family is producing a line of lively fabrics named after her.

23 Feb 15
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The man behind the lens

Design News > Film & Animation

The life and work of celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado is the subject of Wim Wenders’ Oscar-nominated documentary “The Salt of the Earth".

23 Feb 15
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Mothers & Daughters in Design (Part 3): One of Each

Video Interviews > Product Design

Meet Pauline and Tamburai, the mother and daughter duo and creators of African-inspired, one-of-a-kind handbags.

23 Feb 15
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Behind Adjaye's facades

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors

Oliver Hardt, director of "David Adjaye - Collaborations" at Design Indaba FilmFest, on getting to know the architect's work through the eyes of others.

22 Feb 15
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The Italian job

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

A new range called "Due" ("two" in Italian) from Cape Town-based SMITH Jewellery will be on display at Design Indaba Expo 2015.

21 Feb 15
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Take Five

Take Five > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Creativity from across Africa dominated the rankings, taking gold, silver and bronze in this week’s top five stories.

21 Feb 15
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Working hand in hand

Design News > Product Design

The Imbadu Collective, which launched in Langa last night, aims to foster artistic collaboration among the artists in its fold.

20 Feb 15
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Eyes wide open

FilmFestFriday > Art & Photography

Meet the real-life Margaret Keane, whose story is told in Tim Burton’s newest film, “Big Eyes”, which kicks off the FilmFest tonight.

20 Feb 15
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Clouds armchair by Casamento

Product Spotlight > Craft

The new chair is a flouncy but structured homage to the textures of wool, farmed locally in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa.

20 Feb 15
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Mothers & Daughters in Design (Part 2): Studio Famille

Video Interviews > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The members of this team have an assortment of creative skills which they pooled en famille to form Studio Famille – a luxurious online store.

19 Feb 15
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"La Llorna" by Amy Ayanda & Thor Rixon

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

A spare but atmospheric track by Cape Town's new female electrofolk artist, flawlessly produced by Thor Rixon.

19 Feb 15
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#MakeChange: The future of fonts

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Creative agency Joe Public’s latest fund-raising initiative has galvanised 200 scholars from a school in Soweto to create a new designer alphabet.

19 Feb 15
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"Paper Planes" takes flight

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

South African illustrators and graphic designers give traditional mythology and folklore a fresh coat of paint for the inaugural “Paper Planes” exhibition.

18 Feb 15
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Mothers & Daughters in Design (Part 1): Zana Products

Video Interviews > Product Design

The mother and daughter team behind Zana Products tells us about their dynamic business.

18 Feb 15
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#MakeChange: Imparting design wisdom in shifts

Q&A > Product Design

The Shift is making change one sustainable design at a time with tutorial films and toolkits for communities in need.

18 Feb 15
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A special relationship

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lauded New York City-based graphic designer Michael Bierut returns to emcee the Design Indaba Conference for the sixth time. This year, he’ll present as well.

17 Feb 15

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Arbour days

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Stefano Boeri x Timberland have created a multisensory installation to bring the scents and sensations of being in a forest into an urban waterway >
Superstructures

Q&A • 21 Jun 22

Mona-Lisa Mthethwa believes architecture can be used as a tool to bring about sustainable change >
Home and away

Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

The new Africa Centre in Southwark is poised to unveil a permanent collection of contemporary African art, following a much-anticipated refurbishment >
Dream, explore, discover

Design News • 21 Jun 22

Take a seat on a Bofred masterpiece and be transported to a world where all you need do is actively observe >

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