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Why girls should code

Inside View • 5 Nov 14

Code4CT is getting girls to code – while arming them with a technical toolkit to take on leadership roles. >
The tales that monuments tell

Design News • 5 Nov 14

Photographer David Goldblatt tells us which post-Apartheid monuments he considers successful and why. >
A boot camp for your fingers

Design News • 4 Nov 14

Masashi Kawamura has some fun designing a series of games to get users' fingers ready for the new Intel-powered tablets. >
Replicating the mother's womb

Design Frontiers • 4 Nov 14

A new infant care system proposes radically improved incubators that transmit the mother's heartbeat, breathing and voice. >
David Tlale's second take on Vlisco

Lookbook • 3 Nov 14

The South African fashion designer's latest collection juxtaposes lavish Java prints with tailored structure at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa. >
Tackling the housing problem

Focus On • 2 Nov 14

We round up four of the sustainable, low-cost innovations featured in The Better Living Challenge Showcase, which opened in Cape Town this week. >
Making a city desired

Design News • 1 Nov 14

The "City Desired" exhibition explores issues of city making and contemporary urbanism through the lens of Cape Town. >
The playful portraitist

African Report • 31 Oct 14

Patterns clash and cultures collide in Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj's striking portraits. >
Take Five

Take Five • 31 Oct 14

Take five minutes to catch up with designindaba.com's top five stories this week. >
"The World's Pain" by Black Vulcanite

Track of the Week • 30 Oct 14

Track of the Week describes the difficulties of a life dedicated to music in insightful rhymes with back-up from an immaculate jazz sample. >
SEA ME by Nienke Hoogvliet

Product Spotlight • 30 Oct 14

This Dutch designer trades traditional textiles for yarn made from sea algae woven into a luxurious rug. >
City hacks for #makechange

Lookbook • 29 Oct 14

Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far. >
Internet inspiration: Threat or enabler?

Hot Topic • 29 Oct 14

Lazy man's library or a window onto the world? Four South African creatives tell us whether the internet stymies or aids their creative process. >
Shining a light on workers’ safety

Design Frontiers • 28 Oct 14

The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away. >
Design Indaba — from event to institution

Festival News • 28 Oct 14

Design Indaba is at an interesting stage of its development as it develops from an event to a design institution, with activities through-out the year. >
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument

Lookbook • 28 Oct 14

As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits. >
Nesting instinct

Profiling • 27 Oct 14

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans. >
It takes more than one

Focus On • 26 Oct 14

Many designers have shifted the perception that good design is born from the spark of brilliance from the lone genius to one of collaborative creativity. >
First Smart Highway goes live

Design News • 25 Oct 14

Daan Roosegaarde’s much-anticipated Smart Highway has been built on a stretch of the R329 in Oss, the Netherlands. >
Island style

Lookbook • 24 Oct 14

The bespoke furniture collection that put Fogo Island on the map is now available globally. >
Take Five

Take Five • 24 Oct 14

A global call to design out Ebola drew readers' attention this week. >
Reaping the benefits of Design Indaba initiatives

Festival News • 23 Oct 14

Entrepreneurial expo exhibitors create direct and indirect jobs and income from business orders and sales to the public adds to GDP. >
Catching up with Kesivan & The Lights

Track of the Week • 23 Oct 14

Our music writer, Shiba Mazaza, talks to prolific drummer Kesivan Naidoo about his new EP "Brotherhood" before he heads to Carnegie Hall. >
On their knees

Lookbook • 22 Oct 14

We Make Carpets, a trio of Dutch artists, recreates 50 of their 'temporary' carpets out of everyday objects for Dutch Design Week 2014. >
Design advice from New York

Inside View • 22 Oct 14

Three New York design legends share lessons from their careers in graphic design. >
Bye Bye Bunny by Victoria Verbaan

Product Spotlight • 21 Oct 14

Victoria Verbaan’s latest range of products bring her paintings to life. >
John Vogel on making it as your own manufacturer

Inside View • 21 Oct 14

South African furniture designer John Vogel on being hands-on in the workshop and accessing the market in multiple ways. >
13 Ideas to stop global warming

Design News • 20 Oct 14

IDEO's latest "Designs On" semi-annual review brings together some unusual solutions to fighting the warming of our planet. >
Lab Vases by Wiid Design and Ceramic Matters

Product Spotlight • 20 Oct 14

Collaboration was the catalyst for this new creative experiment by a furniture designer and two ceramicists. >
The face of the future

Design News • 18 Oct 14

The overall winner of the Dutch Design Awards is 'Sweetie', a project that fights sex tourism online through an avatar that has the appearance of a young girl. >

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