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Sunflower power

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >
From Talking Heads to singing building

Design News • 1 Aug 08

David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building. >
Design votes out Mugabe

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >
Side profile

Profiling • 1 Aug 08

Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >
True to type

Q&A • 1 Aug 08

Young designers in Kosovo are building a new visual order. Peet Pienaar speaks to typographer and information designer Yll Rugova. >
Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous

Lookbook • 1 Aug 08

Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces. >
Gardening on pavements

Opinion • 1 Aug 08

Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene. >
Look ma, no skool

Opinion • 1 Aug 08

Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing. >
The house that Pancho built

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent. >
Conversations on a Toronto afternoon

Q&A • 1 Aug 08

Architect Len Abelman sets off to meet expats Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg, two South Africans shaping the Toronto cityscape. >
Twee tees

Design News • 1 Aug 08

While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real. >
All that glitters

Hot Topic • 1 Aug 08

Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling. >
Fashion tips for superheroes

Reviews • 19 Jun 08

The Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition explored comic book characters and fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. >
Design Indaba presents the All Stars book at the Cape Town Book Fair

Digital News • 12 Jun 08

Visit the Design Indaba stand at the Cape Town Book Fair from 14 to 17 June, 2008. >
On the virtual edge

Design News • 2 May 08

The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK. >
Public art award announced

Design News • 2 May 08

Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces. >
Saffers hit Milan

Design News • 2 May 08

Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair. >
One thing that leads to another thing

Design News • 2 May 08

The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic. >
Creative Circle for Design Indaba

Festival News • 2 May 08

Design Indaba's recycled radio advert won first prize for best radio advert in the February Creative Circle awards. >
Robot gets fieldtrip

Design News • 2 May 08

Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot. >
Optical delusions

Reviews • 2 May 08

Cape Town's emo-electro outfit Unit.r have launched their debut album decked out in a full-house design campaign from illustrator Kronk. >
Blossoming furniture

Design News • 2 May 08

Klein Dytham Architecture designed, developed and produced this outdoor cherry blossom party furniture. >
Coley Porter Bell launches in SA

Design News • 2 May 08

International branding and design company Coley Porter Bell has partnered with Ogilvy SA to launch locally. >
Nothing is lost

Design News • 2 May 08

Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece. >

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