2007 Archive

Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >

Leading creative thinkers will converge at the Design Indaba Conference from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 2008. >

When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique. >

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

Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration. >

Ravi Naidoo, founder of Design Indaba, presented at the COPENHAGEN PRELUDE TO INDEX: Aiga Aspen Design Summit from 23 to 25 August 2007. >

Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector >

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture. >

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

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

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