A modular shelving solution by Miriam Aust allows for books to take up a new (design) function within the home.

The creative process is a familiar concept but what about a creative cycle, almost like riding a bicycle.

Concrete is not something that's readily associated with beauty and creativity, but when viewed from a different angle, it can inspire.

Cycling is the ideal alternative in car-crowded cities. And with a new design, you can carry cargo on the bike too.

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

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

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

Tea in a can has never been this cool... and refreshing, and tasty. And have you checked out the packaging?

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.