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Design Indaba presents William Kentridge’s ‘Refuse The Hour’

Festival News • 9 Feb 15

Between10and5 features William Kentridge's masterpiece, happening this month as part of Design Indaba Festival 2015. >
Enter your work to A' Design Awards 2015

Design News • 9 Feb 15

Your last chance to enter this international juried competition expires 28 February – and here’s why you should enter! >
How art helped a former gangster rise from the ashes

Dialogues • 9 Feb 15

Project Phoenix is a film about a former member of the feared South African Numbers Gang and how creativity helped turn his life around. >
Take Five

Take Five • 7 Feb 15

Nostalgic over a little boy and his stuffed tiger, readers were intrigued to know what happened to Bill Watterson and his cartoon, "Calvin & Hobbes". >
Li Edelkoort presents "Vanities – The Mythology of Self" and "Activewear"

Festival News • 6 Feb 15

Get a headstart on 2016 trends in garments, textiles and colour – as envisioned by trend guru Li Edelkoort – at her upcoming seminar in Cape Town and Joburg. >
South African creativity's unlikely ambassador

Q&A • 6 Feb 15

As Nando's prepares to ramp up its support for local design, co-founder Robbie Brozin tells us what chicken and creativity have to do with one another. >
A realised utopia

Design Frontiers • 6 Feb 15

In an industrial part of Amsterdam the locals refer to as "Noord", 16 grounded houseboats now dot a former shipyard: tricky architectural brief, magical space. >
"Zulu Funk Soul" by DJ Zulufunk

Track of the Week • 5 Feb 15

This up-and-coming DJ wants to put female house music producers on the map – starting with her own African rhythm-infused sound. >
Keep on truckin'

Profiling • 5 Feb 15

The "godfather" of the Californian food truck movement is coming to Cape Town. It’s a good thing we’ll have 14 food trucks on tap. >
Recipes for urban subversion

Lookbook • 4 Feb 15

Santiago Cirugeda is not the kind of architect to sit around and wait for commissions. Is this the future of architecture in austerity-hit Europe? >
Born to create

Next Generation • 4 Feb 15

Emerging Creative Bonga Jwambi designs with an impulse to make things no one has seen before. >
Balance and disorder

Lookbook • 4 Feb 15

Ceramicist Martine Jackson has partnered with fine artist Galia Gluckman to produce a vibrant range of limited edition, hand-coiled pots. >
Cutting down on timber

Design Frontiers • 3 Feb 15

Xanita is ahead of the game with its cradle-to-cradle designed X-board that is strong, multi-purpose and endlessly recyclable. >
#MakeChange: Three simple, sustainable solutions

Lookbook • 3 Feb 15

Planters from billboard vinyl, solar-powered light bulbs and low-voltage power packs: three South African solutions for African problems. >
Mmmmama Missoni!

Lookbook • 2 Feb 15

Rosita Missoni, who co-founded the Missoni empire with her husband 62 years ago, will talk about her creative longevity at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >
Hip hop and haute couture and Calvin & Hobbes

Festival News • 2 Feb 15

Design Indaba FilmFest 2015 returns to South Africa's oldest indie cinema with a lineup of all South African premieres, and soon-to-be announced world premiere. >
Whatever happened to Watterson?

Profiling • 2 Feb 15

Notoriously media-shy cartoonist Bill Watterson features in the comic-strip documentary film “Stripped”, to be screened at Design Indaba FilmFest 2015. >
Urquiola’s universe

Lookbook • 1 Feb 15

Kartell dedicated its flagship store in Cologne to Patricia Urquiola with an exhibition rounding up all of her designs for the brand. >
Twenty years of jamming with design

Lookbook • 31 Jan 15

The first all-encompassing retrospective show of the work of Austrian design studio EOOS is on at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna. >
Take Five

Take Five • 31 Jan 15

The heartwarming story of two fathers using design to help underprivileged newborns in their country drew the attention of readers this week. >
Storytelling that moves people

Q&A • 30 Jan 15

Yoni Bloch is a triple threat for the technological age: a modern storyteller, a hit-making rock star/producer and a pretty funny interview. >
Doodle for a difference at Design Indaba Expo

Festival News • 30 Jan 15

Unleash your creative juices and get doodling with Design Indaba and 1000 Drawings. >
“Desabafo de um Qualquer Angolano” by Nástio Mosquito

Track of the Week • 29 Jan 15

An eerie near-monologue laid over a mellifluous soundtrack by the provocative performance artist who headlines the lineup for Design Indaba Music 2015. >
The entertainment designer

Lookbook • 29 Jan 15

Multidisciplinary designer Emily Oberman has a formidable portfolio of work. We have a look at some of the campaigns she championed. >
Six launches in Cologne

Lookbook • 29 Jan 15

Patricia Urquiola unveils her first kitchen design at international furniture fair IMM Cologne and Passagen Interior Design Week. >
#MakeChange: The Zero Waste campaign

Q&A • 29 Jan 15

2015 Emerging Creative Camilla Kruger is dedicated to tackling tough environmental issues – first by designing her life around five principles. >
Hadedas in the home

Lookbook • 28 Jan 15

Take a look at what six new furniture and homeware exhibitors will bring to Design Indaba Expo 2015. >
Hear the artists who are redefining African music at Design Indaba Festival 2015

Festival News • 28 Jan 15

Nástio Mosquito, multimedia artist from Angola, headlines the lineup of African acts for Design Indaba’s annual music event. >
The pattern collector

Design News • 28 Jan 15

Africa's faded modernist buildings are a source of graphic inspiration for fashion designer Sindiso Khumalo, who will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >
CREATe.CHANGE

Festival News • 28 Jan 15

Join Design Indaba, Leg Studios and local artists and help convert Carry Tables into cash for the Kannemeyer Primary School library. >

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