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Top 10 videos of 2014

Focus On > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Some unveiled major new designs, others recapped their careers in easy-to-digest lessons. Watch the designers featured in our 10 most popular videos from 2014. >

29 Dec 14
Wise Words – Part 1

Hot Topic > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

A selection of memorable quotes from some of the most acclaimed designers and creative thinkers featured in the "Design Indaba All Stars" book. >

26 Dec 14
All angles

Focus On > Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

This year geometric designs reached new heights as these five projects illustrate. We'll be looking to see whether this trend continues in 2015. >

21 Dec 14
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Art & Photography / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

The question of what design thinking can do for Africa piqued readers' interest this week. >

20 Dec 14
Font fusion

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Dutch visual communications studio Thonik has designed a new graphic identity for the Holland Festival that fuses letters together for a bold visual statement. >

17 Dec 14
Fonts for the Future

Fonts for the Future is a fundraising initiative for One School at a Time. >

17 Dec 14
Lakwena Maciver: A little bit of Africa on every street

Video Interviews > African Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

This Ugandan-British artist turns words into titanic pops of colour on city streets all over the world. >

16 Dec 14
Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress

Product Spotlight > Graphic Design & Illustration

The third edition of the Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress showcases some of the most exciting South African graphic designers. >

15 Dec 14
Experimental Jetset on scavenging the ruins of Modernism

Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Dutch graphic designers tell us how they tap into design history to create work that is rooted in today's culture. >

15 Dec 14
Take Five

Take Five > Art & Photography / Design Activism / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

This week readers loved our Hot Topic feature canvassing designers' thought on whether creativity can save the world. >

13 Dec 14
Dan Wieden

Dan Wieden is an American advertising executive who co-founded Wieden+Kennedy and coined the Nike tagline "Just Do It". >

10 Dec 14
Design Team

Design Team creates fabrics, homeware and clothing featuring local iconography. >

9 Dec 14
Trailer: Experimental Jetset on scavenging the ruins of Modernism

Trailers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Dutch graphic designers talk about the influences that have shaped their impressive body of work. >

9 Dec 14
Square peas and family ponchos

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

Eight drawings of whimsical, wicked and weird inventions from Dominic Wilcox's blog-turned-book, "Variations on Normal". >

8 Dec 14
Dominic Wilcox

British designer Dominic Wilcox works between the worlds of art, design, craft and technology, transforming the ordinary into something surprising. >

8 Dec 14
Joe Public

Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana are chief creative officer and executive creative director respectively of advertising agency Joe Public. >

5 Dec 14
The creative engine inside Joe Public United

Focus On > Graphic Design & Illustration

Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana to present Joe Public United's award-winning work at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >

5 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
DJ Stout on big hair, cowboy poets and planet Texas (trailer)

Trailers > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Austin-based Pentagram partner and graphic designer says a sense of place is important for what graphic designers do. >

28 Nov 14
Take Five

Take Five > Art & Photography / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Advice from some of the leading creative thinkers hit home with designindaba.com readers this week. Here's a round up of the top five stories. >

28 Nov 14
Illustration and I

Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration

Early encounters with children's book illustrations sparked Alan Dye's appreciation for the art in his work as a creative director. >

25 Nov 14
Timeless design

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Nick Finney, founder and creative director of NB Studio, ponders the role of time itself in producing "timeless design". >

18 Nov 14
Afro Delft

Afro Delft offers limited-edition artistic tableware designed by Anna-Carien Goosen. >

7 Nov 14
Mia Mélange

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

7 Nov 14

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