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The Imaginary App by DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko

Product Spotlight • 24 Dec 14

"The Imaginary App", edited by DJ Spooky and Svitlana Matviyenko, explores the ubiquity of apps and how they have seaped into our culture. >
New jewellery exhibitors at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Lookbook • 23 Dec 14

A host of new jewellers will showcase their work at Design Indaba Expo 2015. Here are five new designers who use their materials in distinctive ways. >
AEP Frames by Ballo and Atang Tshikare

Product Spotlight • 23 Dec 14

Summer gets city-slick with illustrator Atang Tshikare's urban doodles on Ballo's handmade wooden sunglasses. >
#MakeChange: Think like a designer

Opinion • 22 Dec 14

Kosheek Sewchurran looks at how design thinking has been used to pioneer change in the business world. Can it do the same for the City of Cape Town? >
A mile in her shoes

Festival News • 22 Dec 14

How Caryn Wilensky built her handmade shoe design brand, Coast & Koi, one step at a time. >
Home in a bag

Next Generation • 22 Dec 14

Our hypermobile world demands new designs that can help us feel at home in our ever-changing environment, says Teresa Palmieri. >
All angles

Focus On • 21 Dec 14

This year geometric designs reached new heights as these five projects illustrate. We'll be looking to see whether this trend continues in 2015. >
Take Five

Take Five • 20 Dec 14

The question of what design thinking can do for Africa piqued readers' interest this week. >
Blackwood & Brass bench by Cameron Barnes

Product Spotlight • 19 Dec 14

Made from a fallen blackwood tree, the designer's latest furniture piece sprouted from his passion for the natural landscape in KwaZulu-Natal. >
"Pala Pala Woman" by Mani Bella

Track of the Week • 18 Dec 14

If you’ve never heard of Bikutsi music, tune in to this infectious contemporary spin on the Cameroonian music tradition. >
Font fusion

Design News • 17 Dec 14

Dutch visual communications studio Thonik has designed a new graphic identity for the Holland Festival that fuses letters together for a bold visual statement. >
How design can build a bridge between politics and the public

Opinion • 17 Dec 14

Danielle Arets and Thijs van Son report on the Dutch city of Eindhoven's shift to change its political machinations with the input of designers. >
Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress

Product Spotlight • 15 Dec 14

The third edition of the Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress showcases some of the most exciting South African graphic designers. >
The special power of disgust

Design Frontiers • 15 Dec 14

It's time for aesthetics to reconsider the role of disgust as an emotion, says Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Merel Witteman. >
The clothes that maketh the continent

Focus On • 14 Dec 14

A new generation of African fashion designers is proving that the continent’s couture is about more than just bright colours, tribal patterns and leopard print. >
Take Five

Take Five • 13 Dec 14

This week readers loved our Hot Topic feature canvassing designers' thought on whether creativity can save the world. >
Daughter of the Niger Delta

African Report • 12 Dec 14

Artist Zina Saro-Wiwa's new gallery space in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, honours her late father's activist legacy, beginning with its location – in his old office. >
A contemporary craftswoman

Festival News • 12 Dec 14

Hella Jongerius, who will speak at Design Indaba Conference 2015, creates a flora- and fauna-inspired paradise of new textile designs for Maharam. >
A school is unpacked in Malawi

Lookbook • 11 Dec 14

How a rural school went from fabrication at a workshop in Johannesburg to erection on a dusty site in the village of Chimphamba. >
“Diamond” by Freestyles263

Track of the Week • 11 Dec 14

A refreshingly hip-swaying serenade from this Zimbabwean group of artists who meld dancehall with as many other genres as possible. >
What design thinking can do for Africa

Opinion • 10 Dec 14

Instead of waiting for roads to be built designers are finding their own ways to overcome the continent's challenges, says Matthias Reichwald. >
"Die Steunpilaar" by Jan Douglas

Product Spotlight • 10 Dec 14

The South African designer creates a leaning lamp to add to his collection of minimalist lights and furniture. >
Square peas and family ponchos

Lookbook • 8 Dec 14

Eight drawings of whimsical, wicked and weird inventions from Dominic Wilcox's blog-turned-book, "Variations on Normal". >
Put on your internet face

Next Generation • 8 Dec 14

French designer Alix Gallet has a bag of tricks to fool biometric recognition technology. >
Lights, camera, Africa

Focus On • 7 Dec 14

Film is a powerful medium for storytelling. Here we round up four authentic African voices in filmmaking. >
Can creativity save the world?

Hot Topic • 6 Dec 14

It's a loaded question, but eight designers gave us some thoughtful and inspiring answers. >
Take Five

Take Five • 5 Dec 14

The 12 nominations for Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2015 stole the virtual spotlight on designindaba.com this week. >
The creative engine inside Joe Public United

Focus On • 5 Dec 14

Pepe Marais and Xolisa Dyeshana to present Joe Public United's award-winning work at Design Indaba Conference 2015. >
"Intro to" by Mungo

Track of the Week • 4 Dec 14

This fluid, twinkling electronic track is the perfect introduction to the solo musical project of bassist, guitarist and DJ, Simon Lee aka Mungo. >
To do: Get organised

Q&A • 4 Dec 14

NYC-based creative studio Trollbäck+Company have launched an app for compulsive list-makers. >

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