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After centuries of international copying, the past decade has proved revolutionary for SA fashion, writes Adam Levin. >

Getting animated about this year's new media superheroes is CNMA judge and editor of the UK's Creative Review magazine, Patrick Burgoyne. >

Going high-tech isn't always the answer to rural transport problems. Sometimes the way forward lies with simple yet sustainable solutions. >

Does South Africa have a design culture? Not really, opines award-winning industrial designer Bernard Smith. >

Making contact, even if only momentarily, with the subject in front of her lens gives upcoming portrait snapper Sarah Nankin her focus. >

Well-known anthropologist and author, Marc Augé writes about why Matali Crasset's work is hard to define in words. >

The first African company to win a coveted Red Dot Design Award proves that South Africa has the potential. >

Design brings stories to life. Or so says Yves Béhar, whose own tale is made up of one brand success story after another. >

What happens when you grab a bunch of juicy Gauteng students and team them up with renowned graphics guru and self-confessed wino Ken Cato? >

What happens when you take an African-American designer from New York to Africa for the first time and expect him to work with crafters? >

What would the design landscape of Africa look like if colonialism had never happened? Carl Harrison asks the tricky, pertinent question… >

Would you bet money on South Africa getting ahead in the global design game? What is it that really holds the Third World back? >

Cheering loudly >

Stereotypical associations of Africa are not exactly the kind of images that stimulate foreign investment and tourism. >

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Setting out recommendations on how to address human needs. >

The winners of the Construction New Media Awards 2005. >

Don Albert reviews the Architecture Indaba. >

Jennifer Fair writes about coming together to create awareness of South African jewellery design at the Jewellery Indaba. >

Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis. >

Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne. >

Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design. >

Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself. >

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These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific". >