2009 Archive

  • Space explorer
    Q&A • 1 Nov 09
    Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design. >
  • Crop share actionism
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork. >
  • Transhuman metamorphosis
    Q&A • 1 Nov 09
    Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations. >
  • Soil soul
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet. >
  • Immortal be captured
    Profiling • 1 Aug 09
    Youssef Nabil tells Design Indaba about cinema, sleep, death and living between places. >
  • Fela Kuti's Yellow Fever album designed by Ghariokwu Lemi.
    Cover activist
    Profiling • 1 Aug 09
    Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba. >
  • The Chrysanthemum Centrepiece by Michaella Janse van Vuuren
    The art of science
    Profiling • 2 May 09
    Integrating engineering and art, Michaella Janse van Vuuren has stumbled upon infinite applications for rapid prototyping. >
  • Yumi-Na fishbone bow. Photo: Jun Mitsuhashi. © Yoshimoto Kogyo Co Ltd / Maywa Denki.
    Fishing for nonsense
    Profiling • 2 May 09
    We persevered... and got some sense out of 'nonsense pioneer' Nobumichi Tosa. >
  • By Ferran Adrià.
    Foam for thought
    Profiling • 2 May 09
    Food is more than simply feeding oneself. Michelle Matthews uncovers the design secrets of culinary genius Ferran Adrià. >
  • Couture, 2008, for Graham and Brown.
    Fabulous fantasia
    Q&A • 2 Feb 09
    Marcel Wanders has designed more than a lifetime’s worth of knotted chairs – he’s designed himself. >
  • If I Want to Explore a New Direction Professionally, it is Helpful to Try it Out for Myself First, 2007.
    A spoonful of sugar
    Profiling • 1 Feb 09
    Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness. >
  • Bruce Mau's book Massive Change.
    The revolution of possibility
    Q&A • 1 Feb 09
    Bruce Mau talks about people connecting across cultures, languages, religions and national boundaries to solve the challenges of the world. >
  • Dancing pictures
    Q&A • 1 Feb 09
    Nadine Botha talks to the resident kidults of Am I Collective about their new animation project, Disko. >