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Enter your work to A' Design Awards 2015

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Industrial Design / Information Design / Interaction Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Your last chance to enter this international juried competition expires 28 February – and here’s why you should enter! >

9 Feb 15 / Advertorial
Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Talks > Product Design

Stefan Scholten talks about the design philosophy behind the Amsterdam-based firm he runs with his wife, Scholten & Baijings. >

5 Feb 15
Indegeniusza

Indegenius is a Joburg-based company that produces hand-crafted garments and accessories. >

4 Feb 15
I Scream & Red

I Scream & Red is a Cape Town-based company that creates bags from recycled seat belts, car upholstery and fabric sample books. >

4 Feb 15
Born to create

Next Generation > African Design / Product Design

Emerging Creative Bonga Jwambi designs with an impulse to make things no one has seen before. >

4 Feb 15
Naoto Fukusawa on why objects shouldn’t stand out too much

Talks > Industrial Design / Product Design

The Japanese industrial designer believes successful designs are things we interact with naturally and inevitably, without thinking. >

3 Feb 15
Cutting down on timber

Design Frontiers > Design Thinking / Product Design

Xanita is ahead of the game with its cradle-to-cradle designed X-board that is strong, multi-purpose and endlessly recyclable. >

3 Feb 15 / Advertorial
#MakeChange: Three simple, sustainable solutions

Lookbook > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Planters from billboard vinyl, solar-powered light bulbs and low-voltage power packs: three South African solutions for African problems. >

3 Feb 15
Mmmmama Missoni!

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Rosita Missoni, who co-founded the Missoni empire with her husband 62 years ago, will talk about her creative longevity at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >

2 Feb 15
Rosita Missoni

The Missoni matriarch, who "cannot stay away from colour", zigzagged her way from knitwear to a home collection to hotel interior design. >

2 Feb 15
Trailer: Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Trailers > Product Design

Husband-and-wife team Scholten & Baijings tell us how they transform sterile mass-produced items into designs with a personal touch. >

1 Feb 15
Twenty years of jamming with design

Lookbook > Product Design

The first all-encompassing retrospective show of the work of Austrian design studio EOOS is on at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. >

31 Jan 15
Take Five

Take Five > African Design / Art & Photography / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

The heartwarming story of two fathers using design to help underprivileged newborns in their country drew the attention of readers this week. >

31 Jan 15
Naoto Fukusawa on why objects shouldn’t stand out too much (trailer)

Trailers > Industrial Design / Product Design

Objects are merely interfaces, says the Japanese industrial designer. It's humans that are at the centre of the design process. >

30 Jan 15
Six launches in Cologne

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Patricia Urquiola unveils her first kitchen design at international furniture fair IMM Cologne and Passagen Interior Design Week. >

29 Jan 15
Hadedas in the home

Lookbook > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

Take a look at what six new furniture and homeware exhibitors will bring to Design Indaba Expo 2015. >

28 Jan 15
The Workers

Meet The Workers, a digital product design studio established by Ross Cairns and Tommaso Lanza in 2010. >

27 Jan 15
Working after hours

Q&A > Interaction Design / Product Design

London-based duo The Workers, creators of four robots that enabled the public to explore Tate Britain at night, will speak at Design Indaba Conference. >

27 Jan 15
Take 2: Second Life of Objects

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Activism / Product Design

A Design Indaba project that celebrates and showcases the potential of upcycling. >

27 Jan 15
#MakeChange: Thinking inside the box

Design News > African Design / Design Thinking / Product Design

Two South African entrepreneur-fathers are adapting a Finnish design to help low-income mothers look after their newborns. >

27 Jan 15
INSERT COOL NAME

INSERT COOL NAME is a Cape Town-based boutique design consultancy and inventor of The Braai Tool. >

26 Jan 15
mema designs

mema designs is a Jo'burg-based collaboration between Sian Eliot and Ari Geva that creates lighting products and architectural detailing. >

23 Jan 15
The wood whisperers

Lookbook > African Design / Architecture & Interiors / Product Design

The duo behind Studio Propolis, who present at Design Indaba Conference 2015, are single-minded about making by hand and using resources sparingly. >

23 Jan 15
COOK Almacén y bazar by Amueblate studios

Product Spotlight > Food Design / Product Design

Andrea Kac and Herman Schenck of Amueblate studios in Uruguay have designed a modular cookware collection perfect for apartment living. >

23 Jan 15

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