December 2014 Archive

Top 10 stories of 2014

Lookbook • 30 Dec 14

Advice from the grand-dad of American graphic design tops the list of most popular reads on designindaba.com. >
The Imaginary App by DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko

Product Spotlight • 24 Dec 14

"The Imaginary App", edited by DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko, explores the ubiquity of apps and how they have seaped into our culture. >
New jewellery exhibitors at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Lookbook • 23 Dec 14

A host of new jewellers will showcase their work at Design Indaba Expo 2015. Here are five new designers who use their materials in distinctive ways. >
AEP Frames by Ballo and Atang Tshikare

Product Spotlight • 23 Dec 14

Summer gets city-slick with illustrator Atang Tshikare's urban doodles on Ballo's handmade wooden sunglasses. >
Home in a bag

Next Generation • 22 Dec 14

Our hypermobile world demands new designs that can help us feel at home in our ever-changing environment, says Teresa Palmieri. >
"Looper" by Eve Deroeck and Mélanie Tourneur

FilmFestFriday • 19 Dec 14

The music of Kinshasa-born Témé Tan inspires this fantastic animated story of a decadent party by night. >
Blackwood & Brass bench by Cameron Barnes

Product Spotlight • 19 Dec 14

Made from a fallen blackwood tree, the designer's latest furniture piece sprouted from his passion for the natural landscape in KwaZulu-Natal. >
"Pala Pala Woman" by Mani Bella

Track of the Week • 18 Dec 14

If you’ve never heard of Bikutsi music, tune in to this infectious contemporary spin on the Cameroonian music tradition. >
Font fusion

Design News • 17 Dec 14

Dutch visual communications studio Thonik has designed a new graphic identity for the Holland Festival that fuses letters together for a bold visual statement. >
Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress

Product Spotlight • 15 Dec 14

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

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 14

It's time for aesthetics to reconsider the role of disgust as an emotion, says Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Merel Witteman. >
“The shower at the end of the day" by Studio Poink

FilmFestFriday • 12 Dec 14

This 50s-inspired animation is a zany homage to the place where all the best ideas are born. >
A school is unpacked in Malawi

Lookbook • 11 Dec 14

How a rural school went from fabrication at a workshop in Johannesburg to erection on a dusty site in the village of Chimphamba. >
“Diamond” by Freestyles263

Track of the Week • 11 Dec 14

A refreshingly hip-swaying serenade from this Zimbabwean group of artists who meld dancehall with as many other genres as possible. >
"Die Steunpilaar" by Jan Douglas

Product Spotlight • 10 Dec 14

The South African designer creates a leaning lamp to add to his collection of minimalist lights and furniture. >
If you're happy and you know it...

FilmFestFriday • 10 Dec 14

Wieden+Kennedy's recent creative campaign for Weight Watchers takes a humorous – and more authentic – approach to the difficulty of losing weight. >
Square peas and family ponchos

Lookbook • 8 Dec 14

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

Next Generation • 8 Dec 14

French designer Alix Gallet has a bag of tricks to fool biometric recognition technology. >
"Colores (Para Lole Part 2)" by Martin & Martin

FilmFestFriday • 5 Dec 14

Charles and Ray Eames' "Powers of Ten" documentary inspires this charming low-tech music video. >
"Intro to" by Mungo

Track of the Week • 4 Dec 14

This fluid, twinkling electronic track is the perfect introduction to the solo musical project of bassist, guitarist and DJ, Simon Lee aka Mungo. >
Preview of "Refuse the Hour"

Design News • 3 Dec 14

Here's a preview of the magical performance "Refuse The Hour" by William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Dada Masilo, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison. >
Material maestros

Lookbook • 3 Dec 14

Studio Formafantasma explores the intersection between material and culture. Here are four of our favourite projects by the inventive duo. >
Man's best friend?

Next Generation • 2 Dec 14

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Michelle Bours questions the relationship between man and canine in her photographic project "Overwhelming Love". >

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