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Cover activist
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba.
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1 Aug 09
The art of science
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Product Design
Integrating engineering and art, Michaella Janse van Vuuren has stumbled upon infinite applications for rapid prototyping.
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2 May 09
Fishing for nonsense
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Art & Photography
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Music & Sound Design
We persevered... and got some sense out of 'nonsense pioneer' Nobumichi Tosa.
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2 May 09
Foam for thought
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Food Design
Food is more than simply feeding oneself. Michelle Matthews uncovers the design secrets of culinary genius Ferran Adrià.
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2 May 09
A spoonful of sugar
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness.
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1 Feb 09
Worldly stuff
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Architecture & Interiors
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Interaction Design
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Music & Sound Design
Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
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1 Nov 08
Side profile
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Design Thinking
Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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1 Aug 08
Seamstory
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Amanda Laird Cherry talks about how the fabric of society has changed through her past few collections.
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1 May 08
1+1 makes 3
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Product Design
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.
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1 Nov 07
My lights manifesto
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Named as the 2006 Elle Decoration South Africa Designer of the Year, Heath Nash excels at making treasures from trash.
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1 Aug 06
The Bubble Project
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Ji Lee has printed over 50 000 stickers shaped like speech-bubbles since 2002.
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1 Aug 05
Between the covers with Chip Kidd
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Graphic Design & Illustration
There is really only one book jacket designer with a comparable profile: Chip Kidd.
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1 May 05
The photographic cartoonist
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Art & Photography
Sean O’Toole chats with the acclaimed photographer and contemporary satirist, Alison Jackson.
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1 May 05
Magic man
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity.
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1 Nov 04
Absolut Gelman
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Patrick Burgoyne chats to Alexander Gelman after the 2004 Design Indaba Conference.
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1 May 04
Lone star
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Film & Animation
Design Indaba habitué, Gregor Naude, had an animated conversation with Bob Sabiston.
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1 May 04
A career of firsts
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Sujata Keshavan was the first Indian to obtain a post graduate degree in graphic design, writes Patrick Burgoyne.
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1 Feb 03
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