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This young local jewellery designer tells us about finding beauty in old and discarded objects. >

Succumb to the slick verbal gymnastics and hip-turning melody of this track by Ghanaian artist M.anifest. >

Google's approach to designing their workspace radically changed the office layout landscape. Inhouse Brand Architects tells us how offices are evolving. >

A new six-part documentary series tracks architects operating at the fringes of the profession – and even the law. >

Why the co-founder of The Jupiter Drawing Room believes that job-bags and MDs are a thing of the past. >

An exhibition of alphabet prints by David Kindersley harks back to the pre-digital days of typographic design. >

Studio Makkink & Bey combines antiques and contemporary design to transform a 17th-century French hotel into a university research centre. >

Presenting this year's winners of the South Africa Institute of Architecture's awards celebrating architectural excellence in the country. >

What got readers clicking this week? Local fashion, a digital tool for manufacturing and insights about African consumers, among others. >

Icon's Christopher Turner writes about Thomas Heatherwick's plans for the first contemporary African art museum on the continent unveiled at Design Indaba 2014. >

Shiba Mazaza selects a deliciously fluid and fun single by the Sakawa Boys, 'arguably one of the best acts to come out of Cape Town this year'. >

Alistair King tells us how the One Rand Man began – and it didn’t start with a brief. >

South Africa's favourite iconoclastic fashion designer unleashes a riot of colour and pattern at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town. >

Architect and urbanist Andrew Makin unravels the chaos that is Mexico city and finds more than a little method in the madness. >