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Fanfest proposal by Grid

Point of View • 1 May 07

"If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests. >
Fanfest by King James RSVP

Creative Work • 1 May 07

King James RSVP proposes that our local taxis and taxi drivers become the hosts and ambassadors to the tourists. >
Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG

Creative Work • 1 May 07

Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever. >
Global Buyers Trek to Expo

Design Indaba News • 1 May 07

This year's Design Indaba Expo attracted a record 137 registered buyers, 66 of them international. >
Online innovation

Creative Work • 1 May 07

Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies. >
Super normal

Creative Work • 1 May 07

Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >
New Slant: Enabling disability through design

Design Indaba News • 22 Feb 07

A Design Indaba Expo project, sponsored by the National Department of Arts and Culture, benefits multi-disabled workers from Care Craft. >
Condom applicator comes first

Design Indaba News • 22 Feb 07

Roelf Mulder of …XYZ Design wins Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2007 for his condom applicator at the Design Indaba Expo. >
Sound, light, action with Brian Eno

Design Indaba News • 9 Feb 07

Design Indaba brings Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings exhibition to Cape Town in February 2007. >
Film noir

Point of View • 1 Feb 07

The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support. >
On the house

Design Indaba News • 1 Feb 07

To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Design Indaba, a series of special projects are being launched to encapsulate the best of design. >
Going Dutch

Design Indaba News • 1 Feb 07

Holland and South Africa are coming together for an historical creative matchmaking event set to coincide with the Design Indaba 10. >
A Taste For Type

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research. >
X SÊ Factor

Interviews • 1 Feb 07

South African-born auto designer Keith Helfet has produced iconic designs for Jaguar Cars. >
Dutch treat

Design Indaba News • 1 Feb 07

Four internationally renowned speakers at the Design Indaba 2007 share Dutch roots and an eye for design. >
Geografias ingenuas

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary. >
Big bad Bitterkomix

Point of View • 1 Feb 07

Over the last 10 years or so, Bitterkomix has been consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore. >
Afro Guchi

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Vlisco’s transformation into a leading fashion house is partly the result of competition from cheap Chinese imports. >
Creative nation

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem. >
Put your best foot forward

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker? >
Mechanical magic

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition. >
Fresh talent

Creative Work • 1 Feb 07

Taswald Pillay, from the University of Johannesburg, has scooped the prestigious PG Bison Interior Design Student of the Year Award. >
Visions of nature

Point of View • 1 Feb 07

The first comprehensive survey of the work of the 19th-century biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel has been published by Prestel Publishing. >
Hot commodities

Design Indaba News • 1 Feb 07

South African design cognoscenti are increasingly ready to spend, spend, spend – and where better to do so than the 2007 Design Indaba Expo. >

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