2014 Archive

Five design breakthroughs in 2014

Focus On • 31 Dec 14

Here are the five standout solutions from our Design Frontiers series that are edging the industry forward in different ways. >
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. >
Top 10 videos of 2014

Focus On • 29 Dec 14

Some unveiled major new designs, others recapped their careers in easy-to-digest lessons. Watch the designers featured in our 10 most popular videos from 2014. >
Six Kenyan names to watch

Focus On • 28 Dec 14

These diverse talents in art, music, architecture and technology are at the forefront of Kenya's creative explosion. >
Top 10 Product Spotlights of 2014

Focus On • 27 Dec 14

We've featured a wide array of products over the course of the year. Here are our 10 favourite designs whose ingenuity and craftsmanship stand out. >
Wise Words – Part 1

Hot Topic • 26 Dec 14

A selection of memorable quotes from some of the most acclaimed designers and creative thinkers featured in the "Design Indaba All Stars" book. >
#MakeChange: Switched on for change

Focus On • 25 Dec 14

You might be admiring the holiday lights this time of year but these five lighting projects remind us that not everyone is as fortunate. >
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. >
#MakeChange: Think like a designer

Opinion • 22 Dec 14

Kosheek Sewchurran looks at how design thinking has been used to pioneer change in the business world. Can it do the same for the City of Cape Town? >
A mile in her shoes

Festival News • 22 Dec 14

How Caryn Wilensky built her handmade shoe design brand, Coast & Koi, one step at a time. >
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. >
All angles

Focus On • 21 Dec 14

This year geometric designs reached new heights as these five projects illustrate. We'll be looking to see whether this trend continues in 2015. >
Take Five

Take Five • 20 Dec 14

The question of what design thinking can do for Africa piqued readers' interest this week. >
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. >
How design can build a bridge between politics and the public

Opinion • 17 Dec 14

Danielle Arets and Thijs van Son report on the Dutch city of Eindhoven's shift to change its political machinations with the input of designers. >
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 clothes that maketh the continent

Focus On • 14 Dec 14

A new generation of African fashion designers is proving that the continent’s couture is about more than just bright colours, tribal patterns and leopard print. >
Take Five

Take Five • 13 Dec 14

This week readers loved our Hot Topic feature canvassing designers' thought on whether creativity can save the world. >
Daughter of the Niger Delta

African Report • 12 Dec 14

Artist Zina Saro-Wiwa's new gallery space in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, honours her late father's activist legacy, beginning with its location – in his old office. >

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