Creative Economy

Craft debate: Elsie Nanji

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy

Creative director and Design Indaba 2004 speaker, Elsie Nanji weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >

1 Feb 09
Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy

Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >

1 Feb 09
Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts

Reviews > Creative Economy

Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts. >

1 Feb 09
Cool beer city

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Product Design

Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema. >

1 Feb 09
The Interior World of Tom Dixon

Reviews > Product Design / Creative Economy

The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish. >

1 Feb 09
Pure not poor

Reviews > Industrial Design / Product Design / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa. >

1 Feb 09
Rex shows at the World Bank

Design News > Creative Economy

The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >

1 Feb 09
Futures to believe in

Reviews > Design Thinking / Creative Economy

Dion Chang has put together a series of essays on the way the world will be very soon in The 2009 Flux Trend Review. >

1 Feb 09
Design Indaba Conference 2009

Leading international creatives have been unfolding new worlds of possibility and inspiration at the annual Design Indaba Conference since 1995. >

29 Jan 09
Novum

Novum – World of Graphic Design is a bilingual (German/English) monthly publication featuring the best in contemporary graphic design. >

21 Jan 09
Axis

Design magazine AXIS is a Japanese publication committed to "Becoming a society where design matters". >

21 Jan 09
The Jupiter Drawing Room

The Jupiter Drawing Room is a category-agnostic, integrated and independent advertising agency based in South Africa. >

21 Jan 09
Interactive Africa

Entrepreneurs with a socio-political conscience, these commercial activists are behind Design Indaba. >

21 Jan 09
City of Cape Town

This city works for you, and helps to make Design Indaba possible. >

21 Jan 09
Absa

Make think become did. >

21 Jan 09
Woolworths

Celebrating quality and design for 85 years. >

21 Jan 09
Music fun in a packet

Design News > Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK. >

1 Nov 08
Sound/culture smash

Reviews > Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Paul D Miller – aka DJ Spooky – addresses “the remix” in his new book Sound Unbound. >

1 Nov 08
Design stuffs its face

Reviews > Food Design / Creative Economy

Fabrico Próprio: The Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery makes a strong case for the design fame of 90 single-serving cakes. >

1 Nov 08
SA fashion hits the silver screen

Design News > Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa. >

1 Nov 08
The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >

1 Nov 08
Bhangra

Reviews > Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Bhangra is a musical genre that grew out of the diasporic Indian community in Britain and was popularised through dancehalls. >

1 Nov 08
Tangible brand marks

Reviews > Creative Economy

Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market. >

1 Nov 08
But how does nature make you feel?

Reviews > Product Design / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely. >

1 Nov 08

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