Design Indaba Archive

  • Design awarded
    Design News • 18 Sep 12
    Innovation, design, technology and creativity gets awarded at the A'Design Awards, which celebrates "superior designs for a better future". >
  • Wild life
    Design News • 18 Sep 12
    Inspired by the Big Five, Cath Price Ceramics are quirky, original and getting much love. >
  • Just About Now
    Design News • 18 Sep 12
    Maarten Baas's timepiece, Just About Now, for Laikingland can be seen at the London Design Festival. >
  • Lolita
    Design News • 18 Sep 12
    Ron Arad's "Lolita" installation looks to the sharing of personal memories. >
  • Seats for seeing
    Design News • 17 Sep 12
    Nendo's Mimicry Chairs bring a new kind of "funky" to museum seating. Take a look at what they did for the V&A in London. >
  • Casual form
    Design News • 17 Sep 12
    Karim Rashid's new Juga chair is the ideal fit for the human form, and speaks to the needs of the contemporary, "casual" age. >
  • Satyendra Pakhalé. Add_On radiator - image by Tom Vack.
    Through the lens of Satyendra Pakhalé
    Inside View • 17 Sep 12
    Imaginative, insightful and culturally diverse, designindaba.com will be publishing a monthly contribution by award-winning designer Satyendra Pakhalé. >
  • Y Tsai on how to use design to make a social impact
    Y Tsai on how to use design to make a social impact
    Talks • Duration: 00:18:47 • 14 Sep 12
    Y Tsai uses his past and current projects to demonstrate how designers can make a dent in the universe by means of social improvement. >
  • Bjarke Ingels at Design Indaba 2012
    Bjarke Ingels: Users are the experts in architecture
    Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:00 • 14 Sep 12
    For Bjarke Ingels users are the experts when it comes to understanding how to design a building for a specific function. >
  • Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
    Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect
    Talks • Duration: 00:41:22 • 13 Sep 12
    For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society. >
  • Streetwise Design
    Do Tank News • 13 Sep 12
    The Your Street Challenge aims to bring design back into underprivileged communities through form and function. >
  • Opening windows to a "designer" career
    Do Tank News • 13 Sep 12
    Design Indaba’s advocacy programmes promoting the creative industries have propped up the local industry. >
  • Space orchestra
    Design News • 13 Sep 12
    A world first, the International Space Orchestra lifts off tonight in California - an experimental project created and directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun! >
  • Squirrel feet
    Design News • 13 Sep 12
    Funky, feminine... and inspired by squirrels! Take a look at Tord Boontje and Tracey Neuls' new collection of footwear. >
  • Bright bulb
    Design News • 13 Sep 12
    The movie universe and Edison's classic incandescent light bulb serves as the inspiration for KiBiSi's new Bulb Fiction light. >
  • Daisy do
    Design News • 12 Sep 12
    "Sitting pretty" is just one of the things you'll be doing with Ronel Jordaan's new Daisy Stool, made of 100% Merino wool. >
  • Bird house
    Design News • 12 Sep 12
    Nendo's new tree house, the Bird Apartment, can house both birds and people, making it the ideal way for the latter to reconnect with nature. >
  • Amplify
    Design News • 11 Sep 12
    Amplify, Yves Béhar's installation for the Digital Crystal exhibition in London, speaks to accessibility and sustainability of crystal lights. >
  • 20x12
    Design News • 10 Sep 12
    Karim Rashid's "20 x 12" demonstrates how new technology can create new opportunities. >
  • Lifestyle sleeper
    Design News • 10 Sep 12
    KiBiSi's new "Roulade" sofa sees the classic Chesterfield couch meeting a cosy new mattress. >
  • Colour Africa Proverbs
    Product spotlight: Colour Africa Proverbs
    Product Spotlight • 10 Sep 12
    Colour Africa Proverbs is a colouring book that depicts traditional African proverbs in a fun way. >
  • 20Q: Christine Goudie
    Q&A • 10 Sep 12
    Medical product designer Christine Goudie feels there is something incredibly peaceful about crisp, cold winter days when the world seems a little more silent. >
  • Thought Cloud
    Design News • 8 Sep 12
    Maarten Baas's "Thought Cloud" uses crystal clouds to symbolise hope for remembering in the digital age. >
  • Heinrich Wolff at Design Indaba 2012
    Heinrich Wolff: Architecture can make the world a better place
    Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:45 • 7 Sep 12
    For Heinrich Wolff the role of architecture involves developing an agenda for social change. >

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