Craft | Design Indaba

When the model becomes the medium

Inside View > Craft / Product Design

How do you collaborate with someone who speaks another language? Swiss designer Laurence Stoffel tells us how she overcame the culture barrier. >

7 Jan 15
Or-gari Golden Safari

Or-gari Golden Safari create South African-inspired luxury hand-painted ceramic products. >

5 Jan 15
Of warp and weft

Focus On > Craft

Six weaving projects from across the globe that exemplify what's possible when the ancient technique is combined with progressive design. >

2 Jan 15
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft / Film & Animation / Urban & Landscape Design

The 12 nominations for Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2015 stole the virtual spotlight on designindaba.com this week. >

5 Dec 14
Li Edelkoort Trend Forecast 2015

Renowned trend forecaster Lidewij Edelkoort presents “Vanities – The Mythology of Self” – a seminar to be held in Cape Town on Saturday 28 February and Johannesburg on Monday 2 March 2015. >

2 Dec 14
MBOISA 2015: 12 ways to define beauty

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design

Here are the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2015 nominations, from the personal to the practical to the political. >

1 Dec 14
A feat of craftsmanship

Next Generation > Craft / Product Design

Meet Martina Lasinger, a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven, who makes mesmerisingly detailed – and beautiful – work. >

28 Nov 14
Off the beaten track

Q&A > African Design / Craft / Product Design

We chat to the organisers of the Hors Pistes project, which pairs European designers with foreign artisans, as they wrap up a workshop in Banfora, Burkina Faso. >

27 Nov 14
New exhibitors at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Lookbook > African Design / Craft / Product Design

Here's a taste from the feast of new work that will be showcased for the first time at Africa's largest design exhibition. >

26 Nov 14
Weaving new ways of thinking

Video Interviews > Craft / Design Thinking

Sabrina Kraus López teaches Berber weavers in rural Morocco to look with new eyes at their culture for design inspiration. >

25 Nov 14
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Craft / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Matali Crasset's firsthand account of her workshop with weavers in Zimbabwe was the most click-worthy feature on designindaba.com. >

21 Nov 14
Matali Crasset on making baskets in Bulawayo

Design Frontiers > African Design / Craft

The French designer tells us in her own words about her time spent with Zimbabwean weavers developing baskets based on the gourd. >

11 Nov 14
Window shopping at the Watershed

Lookbook > African Design / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

We popped by the newly opened Watershed at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town to check out some of the gorgeous local design and craft on sale. >

9 Nov 14
The Alpaca Loom

The Alpaca Loom creates handwoven products using the naturally coloured range of wools from the Manor House Alpacas. >

7 Nov 14
Studio Famille

Studio Famille is the design collective of mother and daughter team Isobel Sippel and Carla Maxine Kruger. >

7 Nov 14
Mia Mélange

Mia Mélange is a handcrafted home décor label based in Stellenbosch. >

7 Nov 14
Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Craft

Inside the Nairobi-based workshop of Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner, a husband-and-wife team who make all their own designs by hand. >

30 Oct 14
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument

Lookbook > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits. >

28 Oct 14
Nesting instinct

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Design Thinking

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans. >

27 Oct 14
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Craft / Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

A global call to design out Ebola drew readers' attention this week. >

24 Oct 14
Emerging Creatives: 5 reasons to apply

Festival News > Art & Photography / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Product Design

Five rising stars from the Emerging Creatives programme at Design Indaba Expo 2014 tell us what the exposure did for their careers. >

23 Oct 14
On their knees

Lookbook > Craft / Product Design

We Make Carpets, a trio of Dutch artists, recreates 50 of their 'temporary' carpets out of everyday objects for Dutch Design Week 2014. >

22 Oct 14
How the Cape Was Made

Design News > African Design / Art & Photography / Craft / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

The "Make It New" exhibition traces the Western Cape's indigenous past and contemporary creativity through craft and design. >

16 Oct 14
Eve bench by Frank Böhm Studios

Product Spotlight > African Design / Craft / Product Design

The Cape Town-based architect begins a series of slender, clean-lined benches. >

30 Sep 14

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