Articles

  • Monique Pelser
    My ekasi, my ekapa
    Hot Topic • 1 Feb 08
    Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is. >
  • By Per Englund
    Gugu = pride
    Opinion • 1 Feb 08
    Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective. >
  • mapDIct
    Hot Topic • 1 Feb 08
    map n 1 a diagrammatic representation of the Earth’s surface or part of it. 2 what Design Indaba asked four Cape Town creatives to redefine >
  • Don't feed the animators
    Design News • 1 Feb 08
    Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >
  • DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
    Riddimtometry
    Design News • 1 Feb 08
    Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >
  • By Paul Hofman
    Meet the hof'
    Q&A • 1 Feb 08
    Photographer Paul Hofman is the only man to ever burn a Design Indaba masthead and get away with it. >
  • A kick and a wink
    Opinion • 1 Feb 08
    Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms. >
  • Electric wheels for SA
    Design News • 11 Jan 08
    Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >
  • Design Indaba lines up the beta generation
    Digital News • 13 Dec 07
    Since its first usage in 2004, “Web 2.0” has often been dismissed as a catchphrase. The latest Design Indaba magazine finds it sticks. >
  • Design Indaba 2008: A better world through creativity
    Festival News • 30 Nov 07
    How does one keep milk cold in the desert? Put a roof over people’s heads? Turn a magazine into a mirror? Simple: Creativity. >
  • Karlssonwilker in South Africa: A real design adventure
    Festival News • 23 Nov 07
    Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker are to explore “live” South African design and the ways in which South Africans represent themselves. >
  • Art container
    Design News • 15 Nov 07
    One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >
  • Form follows food
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >
  • Monument to the now
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >
  • New Africa
    Africa Remix for design
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >
  • Not out of the woods
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >
  • Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour. >
  • Volume control
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
  • The plight of healing plants
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • Metal muscle
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • The public secret of avatars
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Underground at Woolworths
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >
  • Simon Waterfall
    Waterfall on the digital “now”
    Digital News • 2 Nov 07
    The Times, in association with Design Indaba and D&AD, hosted two workshops in October with UK's Simon Waterfall. >
  • The bobo movement
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >

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