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Ordinary Love by U2

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design

The video for U2's song, written for the movie "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom", uses animated type as an artful tribute to Madiba. >

18 Jul 14
Flip and Sketch by Ryan Frank

Product Spotlight > Product Design

Ryan Frank's eco-sleeve design brand TAPEGear falls for flax. >

17 Jul 14
"Loving You" by Lady X feat. Uhuru (Black Motion Mix)

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

You may need to get up and dance for this infectious track by South African house music dynamos Lady X, Uhuru and Black Motion. >

17 Jul 14
Bright spark

Design Frontiers > African Design / Design Activism / Product Design

Faithless percussionist Sudha Kheterpal wants to shake up the world to create clean energy for people without access to electricity. >

15 Jul 14
Finger ballet

Design News > Product Design

Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences. >

15 Jul 14
Lookbook: Rebranding Rwanda

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration / African Design

George Pericles Creative Think-Tank proposes a visual identity for Rwanda's provinces based on traditional patterns. >

14 Jul 14
A Kenyan conundrum

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Kenya’s first pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale – a giant missed opportunity? >

14 Jul 14
Woven vessels by Design Afrika

Product Spotlight > African Design / Craft

Unusual material combinations give these traditional woven vessels a contemporary twist. >

12 Jul 14
Next Generation: Calvin Botha

Next Generation > Industrial Design

Meet the bicycle-mad designer who is one of only three builders of fully customisable carbon frames in the world. >

11 Jul 14
Hello, I am Erik – The German Letterman

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation / Graphic Design & Illustration

Gestalten.tv interviews German typographer Erik Spiekermann who is rediscovering his love for letterpress after 30 years of designing fonts. >

11 Jul 14
Gathered together

Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Industrial Design / Product Design

Lidewij Edelkoort's latest exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel explores the seam of craft and design. >

11 Jul 14
"Safare" by Vieux Farka Touré

Track of the Week > African Design / Music & Sound Design

Guitarist Vieux Farka Touré's composition echoes the vastness and heat of the Malian desert. >

10 Jul 14
Braaitjie by Dieter Zermatten

Product Spotlight > African Design / Industrial Design

A pint-sized ‘braai’ hopes to reinvent South Africa’s obsession with barbecuing meat outdoors. >

10 Jul 14
Lookbook: Over the Rainbow

Lookbook > Product Design

A new exhibition in France shows Scholten & Baijings's creative portfolio from the past 14 years. >

9 Jul 14
A desert in Venice

Design News > African Design / Architecture & Interiors

Morocco's first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale explores the country's experimental approach to 'desert architecture'. >

9 Jul 14
Nabasco

Design Frontiers > Product Design

This future-forward, environmentally friendly material finds an artful application in a project by Dutch designer Ineke Hans. >

8 Jul 14
Lookbook: Department of Design

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

We look at Droog's design of a pop-up pavilion to foster Dutch-South African collaboration for Cape Town's reign as 2014 World Design Capital. >

7 Jul 14
Blocks and Grid by Scholten & Baijings

Product Spotlight > Craft

Scholten & Baijings latest fabric collection reinterprets colour blocking as an exercise in subtle colour gradations. >

5 Jul 14
Wawd Ahp

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

In the last of our SXSW 2014 Film Award winner series, the filmmaker takes us on a romp through his warped subconscious. DISTURBING CONTENT, PASSWORD BELOW. >

4 Jul 14
"Mau Vivi" by Jo Kunnuji

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

Meander through the sounds of Nigeria's lesser-known Ogu culture as interpreted by Nigerian composer Jo Kunnuji. >

3 Jul 14
Lookbook: Word Cup

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

Facebook communication designer and football fanatic Ji Lee creates a league of his own with his Word Cup challenge. >

3 Jul 14
News: Exemplary colours

Design News > Craft

Colour maven Hella Jongerius gets outs her paintbrush for a group exhibition celebrating MAK's 150th anniversary. >

2 Jul 14
Watt scooter

Design Frontiers > Industrial Design

This electric push scooter by industrial design outfit eLabs is a made-in-South-Africa solution to inner-city congestion. >

1 Jul 14
Beaded iPhone cases by Vukile Batyi and Laduma Ngxokolo

Product Spotlight > African Design / Product Design

The quintessential 21st-century accessory gets a Xhosa-inspired case courtesy of Vukile Batyi and Laduma Ngxokolo. >

1 Jul 14

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