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Lookbook: What's Your Type?

Creative Work • 4 Aug 14

An exhibition of alphabet prints by David Kindersley harks back to the pre-digital days of typographic design. >
Focus on: Architects at UIA 2014

Focus On • 3 Aug 14

Watch these interviews from our archives with four architects speaking at the International Union of Architects World Congress in Durban. >
Eclectic interiors

Creative Work • 3 Aug 14

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

Interviews • 2 Aug 14

Steve Kotze talks art and Afrikaner adaptability with artist Stefan Naude aka ST(E)AK. >
SA's top buildings

Creative Work • 2 Aug 14

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

Take Five • 1 Aug 14

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

Creative Work • 31 Jul 14

High Thorn's latest lighting design is a cascade of leather evoking a laidback sense of luxury. >
How do you deal with failure?

Point of View • 30 Jul 14

Failure is built into the creative process. But how to face it? Nine designers tell us how they do it. >
Casey Neistat: The maverick filmmaker

Interviews • Duration: 00:04:13 • 30 Jul 14

Meet the YouTube sensation who is redefining what it means to be a filmmaker. >
Naoto Fukasawa: Design as second nature

Interviews • 29 Jul 14

Five minutes with the acclaimed Japanese designer, whose products emerge so seamlessly from their environment that they feel at once familiar and inevitable. >
A helping hand

Creative Work • 29 Jul 14

A new smart tool from MIT Media Lab is blurring the lines between handmade and digital technology. But that's not a bad thing. >
Inside View: Content's king

Point of View • 29 Jul 14

Alistair King tells us how the One Rand Man began – and it didn’t start with a brief. >
Renny Ramakers: A voice for beauty and relevance

Interviews • Duration: 00:03:36 • 28 Jul 14

The veteran of the Dutch design world exhorts her colleagues to find poetic solutions that engage with society's ills. >
Q&A: Studio Formafantasma

Interviews • 28 Jul 14

The Italian duo tell us how it works to design as a unit, their conceptual approach and experimenting with lava as a material. >
Lookbook: Marianne Fassler's Resort 2015 collection

Creative Work • 28 Jul 14

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

Focus On • 27 Jul 14

We round up seven kid-conscious projects. >
Building revolution in the city - part 2

Point of View • 26 Jul 14

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

Creative Work • 26 Jul 14

The Stratflex family of furniture grows with the addition of this cleverly designed flat-pack table. >
Hillywood's big week

Point of View • 25 Jul 14

In this new series of first-hand reports by our team of correspondents in Africa, Katherine Sullivan writes on the growth of Rwanda's film industry. >
Take Five

Take Five • 25 Jul 14

African icons old and new abound in this week's top stories, from a graphic collage of Madiba to new designs for bubblegum brand Chappies. >
Win a course in business skills for creatives

Design Indaba News • 25 Jul 14

UCT's Graduate School of Business and Design Indaba are giving away a place at the next Business Acumen for Artists course, valued at R7 500. >
Instomi metal sideboard by Meyer von Wielligh

Creative Work • 24 Jul 14

Meyer von Wielligh contrasts smooth metal with aged wood in the latest addition to its signature range. >
Africa rising: 10 myths busted

Point of View • 24 Jul 14

A new report from South African consumer research agency Instant Grass lifts the veil on 10 common misperceptions about the continent. >
Inside View: The business of art

Point of View • 23 Jul 14

Moving from being an artist to a creative entrepreneur takes an enormous leap of faith. We chat to educator Elaine Rumboll about the potential and pitfalls. >

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