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The craft factory

Opinion > Craft / Creative Economy

Leonard Shapiro explains South Africa’s craft enterprises are reaching self-sufficiency and hankering for the next level: Industrialisation. >

9 Feb 10
Look Mom, No Hands

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album. >

1 Feb 10
Kentridge in five

Reviews > Creative Economy

William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist. >

2 Dec 09
Know rules to break them

Reviews > Design Thinking / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Never Use White Type on a Black Background must be one of the most fun and quirky books one can read about design and fashion rules. >

1 Dec 09
The 10 000 hours manifesto

Reviews > Creative Economy

In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise. >

1 Dec 09
50c business bible

Reviews > Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008. >

30 Nov 09
CD: Shaka Won

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won. >

28 Nov 09
CD: Mooi Besoedeling

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

For Zinkplaat's fourth album, designers Fanakalo.co.za created a scratch-off album cover. >

27 Nov 09
Sky's the limit

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming. >

1 Nov 09
Gay architectural mockumentary

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors

Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >

1 Nov 09
The don of design

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >

1 Nov 09
Jaunted Haunts Press

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Righard Kapp recently released four albums on his garage label Jaunted Haunts Press. >

5 Sep 09
Yes, Pet Shop Boys by Mark Farrow

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

For the limited-edition of the Pet Shop Boys’s latest offering, Yes, Mark Farrow certainly responds in the affirmative. >

3 Sep 09
Picturing taste

Reviews > Creative Economy

Photographer Stan Engelbrecht’s German language follow-up to the successful African Salad, Das is(s)t Deutschland was recently launched. >

1 Sep 09
Photos full of marvel

Reviews > Creative Economy

With barely a human subject in sight, Roger Ballen’s newest book, Boarding House, makes his oeuvre even more intangible. >

31 Aug 09
Get a handle on SA architecture

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy

Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >

18 Aug 09
Graphic novel goes down the gut

Reviews > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant. >

12 Aug 09
Green objectified

Reviews > Product Design / Design Thinking

Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement. >

11 Aug 09
Homework

Opinion > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Design Indaba asked creatives born on the continent which of their works was most influenced by their place of birth. >

1 Aug 09
But is it “African”?

Opinion > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

You’d think that, as a designer based in Africa, it would be easy to answer the question “What constitutes African design?” >

1 Aug 09
Graphics beyond language

Reviews > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

De Wereld Volgens Gorilla is an anthology of the best works that have appeared on the front page of De Volkskrant in Holland. >

28 Jul 09
Chic Afrique

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience. >

15 May 09
Koos

Reviews > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released. >

15 May 09
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

Stefan Sagmeister designs the packaging for the collector's edition of David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative album. >

15 May 09

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