Design Indaba Archive

  • Courtesy of The Museum of Se[x].
    A rubber history
    Design News • 2 May 10
    While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it. >
  • Courtesy of Steve Brown
    Delicious second skin
    Design News • 2 May 10
    What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams. >
  • Courtesy of Roelf Mulder.
    Fun in four seconds
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design. >
  • Courtesy of LELO.
    Metallic masterpiece
    Design News • 2 May 10
    The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia. >
  • Courtesy of Jimmyjane/Fuseproject.
    Double the fun
    Design News • 2 May 10
    The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series. >
  • Courtesy of Myla.
    Oh so hip Bone
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that... >
  • Picture 9. Photo by Leah Hawker.
    Sentient cool
    Lookbook • 1 May 10
    Fine artist and commercial photographer Leah Hawker sourced everything in this photoshoot from the 2010 Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Photos by Emmanuelle Haughel from Bloom n°17. Courtesy of Trend Union.
    Sex is the new yellow
    Design News • 1 May 10
    According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback. >
  • 344 Questions on the Way to Wisdom poster.
    The other 90%
    Profiling • 1 May 10
    Maciek Dubla talks to Stefan G Bucher about being responsible to your ideas, and the need to control your greed. >
  • Bruce Nussbaum at Design Indaba 2010. Photo by Jonx Pillemer.
    Designomics
    Festival News • 1 May 10
    At the 2010 Design Indaba Conference, Bruce Nussbaum positioned design at the heart of progressive economics. >
  • Die Antwoord
    The zefff-sters
    Profiling • 1 May 10
    Not just another article about Die Antwoord, Henry Cloete also asks Leon Botha and Jack Parow: “The answer to what?” >
  • The Synthetic Kingdom by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
    To form and multiply
    Inside View • 1 May 10
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg asks what traditional design can bring to synthetic biology. >
  • Photo by Gary van Wyk.
    Ordinary peeps
    Inside View • 1 May 10
    Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus likes to think that behind each face he passes daily, is a web of sexual deviation and anarchy. >
  • Odidiva in Brompton Cross advert.
    President love dress
    Opinion • 1 May 10
    Odidiva, star of House of Holy Afro and the new face of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, explains the power of wearing a dress. >
  • Zinzi and Tozama II Mowbray, Cape Town, 2010. Photo by: Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery.
    Black to the closet
    Lookbook • 1 May 10
    Photographer Zanele Muholi’s exploration of black female bodies has raised more than a couple of eyebrows. >
  • American Apparel.
    Money shot
    Opinion • 1 May 10
    Kathryn White explores the supposedly sexually aware advertising industry, exposing more than a few ironies. >
  • The Boookery in Cape Town
    Support The Bookery!
    Design News • 30 Apr 10
    The Bookery sounds like a place that belongs to the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. And it’s working the same kind of magic. >
  • See Better to Learn Better. Courtesy of fuseproject.
    Seeing is believing
    Design News • 30 Apr 10
    Yves Béhar has designed a funky collection of eyeglasses to help Mexican school children See Better to Learn Better. >
  • Matali Crasset with her “Essentiel de pâtisserie” for Alessi.
    Matali Crasset in the kitchen
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Alessi recently launched their “Essentiel de pâtisserie” collection by Parisian designer Matali Crasset. >
  • Clive Rundle with mannequin
    Clive Rundle impresses at Paris Fashion Week
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Clive Rundle's "Marie Antoinette returns to Paris after attending a lesbian wedding in Africa" was well received at Paris Fashion Week. >
  • Intergrated Habitats Design Competition
    Design an eco-friendly building
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Sustainability is important in the built environment so here's a chance to show off your eco-friendly building designs. >
  • Hotel Yeoville
    Welcome to Hotel Yeoville
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Hotel Yeoville utilises the internet to make people feel at home, wherever they are in the world. >
  • Bicycle culture in South Africa
    It's about the bike
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Bicycling enthusiasts Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler have started a project that looks at South Africa’s bicycle culture. >
  • Arcoiris Cuckoo clock
    1... 2... 3... Cuckoo Clock
    Design News • 28 Apr 10
    Cuckoo clocks are all but fully revived yet. Italian designer Raffaele Darra brings them back with stripes. >

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