• The Green Trace umbrella stand by Innovo.
    Three other designs from Milan 2010
    The Green Trace umbrella stand by Innovo, Forte musical furniture by 45 Kilo and Laikingland’s nonsensical machines. >
  • AMPLIFY by Yves Béhar.
    Swarovski at Milan 2010
    “1 crystal + 1 low energy LED light + a faceted paper shade = AMPLIFY” asserted Yves Béhar at this year’s Swarovski Crystal Palace. >
  • Four upcycled designs at Milan2010
    Bottleformball by Heath Nash, Saved by Droog, 380 Tiles by Vicolo Paglia Corta and Cuisine d'Objets by 5.5 designers. >
  • Chairless by Alejandro Aravena.
    Six chairs from Milan 2010
    Alejandro Aravena, Tokujin Yoshioko, Patricia Urquiola, Marcel Wanders, Thomas Heatherwick and François Azambourg take a seat. >
  • The power of solar systems
    Nadine Botha reviews the annual Freewheeling Festival, which ran from 19 to 22 March 2010 at the Stanford Valley Guest Farm near Hermanus. >
  • Odidiva in Brompton Cross advert.
    President love dress
    Odidiva, star of House of Holy Afro and the new face of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, explains the power of wearing a dress. >
  • W+K Delhi
    W+K Delhi open art gallery
    Indian advertising agency W+K Delhi have expanded to launch an art gallery, W+K Experience, which aims to make art accessible to everyone. >
  • James Victore Design
    Step into an art director’s shoes
    Renowned creatives were asked to customise a pair of Toms Shoes as part of the Art Directors Club’s Designism 4.0 annual forum. >
  • Baby monitor wins SABS
    Cape Town product development consultancy ...XYZ, scoop three awards at the SABS Design Excellence Awards for mobile baby monitor, SNUZA. >
  • Quivertree Publications
    Hot Afro
    Photographer Craig Fraser slips into the homes of some of South Africa's creative individuals to find distinctly South African interiors. >
  • Zebra Press
    The power of ideas is in everyone
    Ideas are slippery things, but by personifying them with moods and reason, you control your ideas and how they can shape your life. >
  • David Krut Publishing
    TAXI-014 Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmankgato Helen Sebidi
    Playing a key role in South African arts education, the 14th Taxi art book celebrates Helen Sebedi's contribution to art during apartheid. >
  • Past-life digital dreams
    Nadine Botha speaks to Troika whose experiments and installations raise questions about the real function of technology. >
  • Infecting the City
    Rite-specific art
    Infecting the City – the third Spier Public Arts Festival – is taking to the streets, squares and public spaces of Cape Town. >
  • Mix n Blend
    Look Mom, No Hands
    True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album. >
  • Second Spier Contemporary exhibition opens
    The Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will open its doors to show contemporary South African art for diverse audiences. >
  • Space explorer
    Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design. >
  • Transhuman metamorphosis
    Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations. >
  • 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. >
  • Photos full of marvel
    With barely a human subject in sight, Roger Ballen’s newest book, Boarding House, makes his oeuvre even more intangible. >
  • Get a handle on SA architecture
    Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >
  • Green objectified
    Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement. >
  • The disgrace of popularity
    Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >

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