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Based on a currency of sharing, cyberspace is resurrecting community and equality writes digital scholar Philipp Schmidt. >

Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop. >

Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene. >

Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing. >

Professor Shin-ichi Takemura announces the dawn of a new era of mass media. >

With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger. >

Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many. >

Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are... >

Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective. >

Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms. >

In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington. >

“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang. >

Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >

Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit. >

Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing. >

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat. >

"If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests. >

The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support. >

Marc Shoul explores the small cycles of daily life against a larger backdrop of shadow, light, unspoken drama and uncertain peace in Israel. >

The South African book cover has come a long way, ponders Michelle Matthews of Oshun Books. >

If you thought botanical illustration was dying out as fast as the rare plants it depicts, you may need to adjust your magnifying glass. >

Design Indaba invites Haldane Martin, Heath Nash, Keith Struthers and Kommetjie Environmental Awareness Group to share their manifestos. >

One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >