2014 Archive

Mathieu Rivier: Light fantastic

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:09 • 14 Jul 14

Swiss interaction designer Mathieu Rivier's mesmerising work uses light and digital technology to delight. >
A Kenyan conundrum

Design News • 14 Jul 14

Kenya’s first pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale – a giant missed opportunity? >
Brothers from another time

Profiling • 13 Jul 14

At face value Laurie and Gary Holmes come off like a pair of ’60s California throwbacks. But take a closer look and you might see the future of surfing. >
Focus on: Textile trends

Focus On • 12 Jul 14

Technology is taking fabric into new directions. We round up five future-forward examples. >
Outside In: Julie Lasky

Inside View • 12 Jul 14

Columnist and editor Julie Lasky gives us a firsthand account of her journey of first discovering South African design. >
Woven vessels by Design Afrika

Product Spotlight • 12 Jul 14

Unusual material combinations give these traditional woven vessels a contemporary twist. >
Next Generation: Calvin Botha

Next Generation • 11 Jul 14

Meet the bicycle-mad designer who is one of only three builders of fully customisable carbon frames in the world. >
Garth Walker: What does 'being African' look like?

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:29 • 11 Jul 14

This is the question the acclaimed graphic designer asked himself in 1994 when he started "ijusi" magazine – and he is still asking it... >
Hello, I am Erik – The German Letterman

FilmFestFriday • 11 Jul 14

Gestalten.tv interviews German typographer Erik Spiekermann who is rediscovering his love for letterpress after 30 years of designing fonts. >
Take Five

Take Five • 11 Jul 14

Watch, listen to and read this week's most popular features on designindaba.com. >
Gathered together

Design News • 11 Jul 14

Lidewij Edelkoort's latest exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel explores the seam of craft and design. >
"Safare" by Vieux Farka Touré

Track of the Week • 10 Jul 14

Guitarist Vieux Farka Touré's composition echoes the vastness and heat of the Malian desert. >
Braaitjie by Dieter Zermatten

Product Spotlight • 10 Jul 14

A pint-sized ‘braai’ hopes to reinvent South Africa’s obsession with barbecuing meat outdoors. >
Lookbook: Over the Rainbow

Lookbook • 9 Jul 14

A new exhibition in France shows Scholten & Baijings's creative portfolio from the past 14 years. >
The world's most pressing problems?

Hot Topic • 9 Jul 14

If there were a global design agency stationed at the UN bringing governments, NPOs and designers together, what issues would it address? >
Bogosi Sekhukhuni: Taking back technology

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:36 • 9 Jul 14

This young South African artist uses digital technology to create positive icons of African humanity. >
A desert in Venice

Design News • 9 Jul 14

Morocco's first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale explores the country's experimental approach to 'desert architecture'. >
Nabasco

Design Frontiers • 8 Jul 14

This future-forward, environmentally friendly material finds an artful application in a project by Dutch designer Ineke Hans. >
Inside View: 3 creative tools

Inside View • 8 Jul 14

Don't underestimate how handy these three humble (and free) tools can be, says our digital product manager, Sarah Jayne Fell. >
Teshia Treuhaft: What a chair needs to be

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:33 • 7 Jul 14

The Rhode Island School of Design graduate collaborated with a dancer to map out the fundamentals of a chair. >
Dave Hakkens: The last phone you'll ever need

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:10 • 7 Jul 14

Meet the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate who could help revolutionise cellular technology. >
Q&A: Thebe Ikalafeng

Q&A • 7 Jul 14

We chat to one of Africa's leading brand gurus about his appointment to the jury of the Red Dot Communication Design Awards. >
Lookbook: Department of Design

Lookbook • 7 Jul 14

We look at Droog's design of a pop-up pavilion to foster Dutch-South African collaboration for Cape Town's reign as 2014 World Design Capital. >
Outside In: Joost Alferink

Inside View • 6 Jul 14

Looking in on Africa from the European perspective, Joost Alferink shares an outsider's perspective on the state of the creative industry on the continent. >

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