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Festival News • 1 May 05

Design Indaba Conference 2005 speakers sing their praises. >
A South African identity

Opinion • 1 May 05

Don Albert reviews the Architecture Indaba. >
Our crown jewels

Opinion • 1 May 05

Jennifer Fair writes about coming together to create awareness of South African jewellery design at the Jewellery Indaba. >
Notes from the Fashion Indaba

Opinion • 1 May 05

Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis. >
Broad appeal

Festival News • 1 May 05

This year's Design Indaba Conference has been pronounced the biggest, most diverse and most relevant in the event's ten-year history. >
Labour of love

Opinion • 1 May 05

Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne. >
Between the covers with Chip Kidd

Profiling • 1 May 05

There is really only one book jacket designer with a comparable profile: Chip Kidd. >
The photographic cartoonist

Profiling • 1 May 05

Sean O’Toole chats with the acclaimed photographer and contemporary satirist, Alison Jackson. >
The optimist on the designer optimised

Opinion • 1 May 05

Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design. >
Design is easy

Q&A • 1 May 05

Editor of Clear magazine, Ivana Kalafatic speaks to product and furniture designer Constantin Boym. >
Where black and white melted into brown

Opinion • 1 May 05

Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself. >
Design Indaba charity banquet

Do Tank News • 1 May 05

The first Design Indaba Charity Banquet drew a glamorous gathering of high-profile government, business and media representatives. >
Digital designers square up for New Media Awards

Opinion • 1 May 05

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Sculpting the Land

Opinion • 1 Feb 05

These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific". >
Flying high

Festival News • 1 Feb 05

The Flyer premieres at the 2005 Design Indaba. >
Digital designers square up for CNMA

Opinion • 1 Feb 05

South Africa's most talented digital designers are vying for the chance to spend a week at London multimedia house Poke. >
Zest for Life

Opinion • 1 Feb 05

An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London. >
A dedication to graphic design: Alexander Gelman interviews Michael Bierut

Q&A • 1 Feb 05

An energy-filled dedication to graphic design, we have made no changes to the transcript. Be a fly on the wall. >
Q&A with Chip Kidd

Q&A • 1 Feb 05

It's become a global standard, and many celebrities and leaders have filled this out this party game. >
Fair play

Design News • 1 Feb 05

In Paris recently, Africa Fair presented their Fall/Winter 2005/06 collection. >
SA's national treasure

Design News • 1 Feb 05

Now with the new government into its 10th year of democracy, a new mace was unveiled in Parliament recently. >
Get a piece of the action

Festival News • 1 Feb 05

piece, a Johannesburg-based design organisation, will showcase the work of a number of talented crafters at the 2005 Design Indaba Expo. >
Magic man

Profiling • 1 Nov 04

Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity. >
Accidental designer

Q&A • 1 Nov 04

Jennifer Fair interviews jewellery designer, style leader and taste maker Solange Azagury-Partridge. >
All-round design

Q&A • 1 Nov 04

Christine Moosmann, editor of Novum magazine, interviews world-famous product designer Dieter Rams. >
Future perfect

Opinion • 1 Nov 04

Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK), writes about the architectural achievements of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. >
Workshop with Malcom Garret

Inside View • 1 Nov 04

The question most frequently asked concerned how from my experience, I thought this group of students compared to others in the UK. >
Workshop with Ilse Crawford

Opinion • 1 Nov 04

Invent, design and present an African feast that is not just visual but engages all the senses. What does Africa feel like? >
Workshop with Oscar Pena

Opinion • 1 Nov 04

In the assignment plus ONE minus ONE, the aim was to change one aspect of an existing product. >
Ambiguity and truth

Opinion • 1 Aug 04

Milton Glaser writes about the complexities behind making communication clear and effective. >

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