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Friends of Ruth Prowse

Design News > Design Thinking

Help raise funds for disadvantaged students to attend Ruth Prowse School of Art by creating a small art work before 8 June.

14 May 09
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Animation meets theatre

Design News

Theatre multi-tasker, Neil Coppen's recent production of Tree Boy introduced design, animation and multimedia to the Durban Playhouse.

14 May 09
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Touchpad dining

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The new Inamo restaurant in London revolutionises the service and hospitality industry with a unique menu based on interactive design.

14 May 09
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Joule on South African roads by 2010

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

South Africa's first locally designed and manufactured electric car is ready for production.

14 May 09
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Prism awards to champion green design

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Architecture and design students are invited to enter the Plascon Prism awards before 29 May 2009.

14 May 09
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South Africans in Milan

Design News > Craft

After debuting at the Design Indaba Expo, four South African designers exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair under the Misael label.

14 May 09
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Nathan Reddy Pecha Kucha

Talks > Creative Economy

Nathan Reddy, South Africa's most awarded brand specialist, explains his success in the manufacture of desirability.

8 May 09
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Zapiro Pecha Kucha (part one): The Mandela Files

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Mandela Files, by South Africa's best-loved and most widely known satirical cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro), looks at Mandela as an icon and leader.

2 May 09
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No happy ending

Opinion

As technology races towards a constantly receding utopia, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby warn of its economic, cultural and ethical impacts.

2 May 09
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As deep as it gets

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Designer Richard Hart has created recesses of kindness in his first art exhibition.

2 May 09
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Me, myself & Dai

Opinion

From the frontlines of Dai Fujiwara’s entourage of groupies, Sandhya Lalloo witnesses a creative master fuelled by minimalism and humility.

2 May 09
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The art of science

Profiling > Product Design

Integrating engineering and art, Michaella Janse van Vuuren has stumbled upon infinite applications for rapid prototyping.

2 May 09
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Fishing for nonsense

Profiling > Music & Sound Design

We persevered... and got some sense out of 'nonsense pioneer' Nobumichi Tosa.

2 May 09
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Foam for thought

Profiling > Food Design

Food is more than simply feeding oneself. Michelle Matthews uncovers the design secrets of culinary genius Ferran Adrià.

2 May 09
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Zapiro Pecha Kucha (part two): Polokwane Pirates

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

This is the second part of Zapiro’s presentation at Design Indaba Expo 2009.

2 May 09
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What can your creativity do?

Hot Topic > Design Thinking

A lively series of quotable quotes from the speakers at the Design Indaba Conference 2009.

1 May 09
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You and Your Browser

Design News > Interaction Design

Illustrator Christoph Niemann has created an animated ad for Google's new browser, Chrome.

30 Apr 09
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Geraldine Fenn Pecha Kucha

Talks > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jeweller Geraldine Fenn weaves narratives through small sculptural pieces, fashioned out of found objects.

24 Apr 09
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Richard Hart interview

Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

Hart sees creating art as a wonderful indulgence, to be enjoyed as much as possible in as organic a process as possible.

23 Apr 09
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Braam Jordaan interview

Video Interviews

Braam Jordaan shares the origins of The Rubbish Monster, a vivid and effective animation that has fetched him a string of awards.

23 Apr 09
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We heart mags

Design News > Creative Economy

Design Indaba magazine participated in the We Love Magazine Library exhibition in Japan in March.

14 Apr 09
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Exorcised ghosts

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Architect Pedro Gadanho writes about the family home he recently completed in Oporto River in Portugal.

14 Apr 09
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Rockefeller Foundation co-sponsors Innovation Prize

Design News > Design Thinking

The newly established African Carbon Trust seeks a South African company to match the Rockefeller Foundation's pledge towards innovation.

14 Apr 09
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5.5 designers at DI2009

Video Interviews > Product Design

Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status

8 Apr 09

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Design News • 13 Jun 22

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Hold my beer

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >
A continental visionary

Q&A • 13 Jun 22

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >
Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

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