South Africa

Architectural Indaba

Between 4,5 and 5 million South Africans have received "secure tenure" homes since 1994. Sean O'Toole looks beyond the statistics. >
Each one teach one

A group of 'street photographers', all from the Cape Town area, have banded together to form the Umlilo Photographers Association. >
Summer folly

CT's topography forms a dramatic and vertiginous backdrop to a delightful glass tree house that's perfect for lofty summer city living. >
Drawing blanks

Go to any city in South Africa and take a look at what's hanging on the lampposts. Not much, really. >
Design Indaba Conference 2002

An overview of Design Indaba Conference 2002. >
Design Indaba Conference 2002

Conference

In 2002, the fifth Design Indaba broke the biannual cycle of Design Indabas to become an annual event. >
Three tales of Jozi

Rodney Place, Johan van Wyk and Muzi Kuzwayo offer three different takes on the city of gold. >
What goes around comes around

Fast-forwarding into the future, fashion increasingly rewinds to the past. >
Ancestral design

Beads have become a tourist delight, but what about beads as a symbol of another reality, writes Moshidi Motshegwa. >
Signs of the times

Every day, we encounter symbols that make impressions. >
Fragile firedancer flower

Jeannette Unite is a Cape Town based artist and exhibits her work both locally and internationally. >
A Frosty day in Durban

Vince Frost presented a workshop to students in Durban. Taweni Gondwe interviewed him. >
Positive vibration

The story of Rastafari, by Taweni Gondwe. >
Flash player

Interview with Flash guru Andries Odendaal. >
Big dada

Rich Crosier writes about how to stage a play about a dictatorial dingbat. >
Design Indaba Mission: Critical

The early seeds of the Indaba were sown at a time when South Africa was on the cusp of reinventing itself. >
Design Indaba Magazine

Publications & Art Projects

The magazine about how creativity changes everything. >
The future is here

Photography, product design and graphic design from PE Technikon and Cape Technikon. >
Portrait of the artist as a young woman

Interview with the artist currently known as Usha. >
Hey Joe!

Websites that have expanded the view of possibilities online; Joe de Lange chooses his top five. >
Screw the Millennium, it's really 1917 and we are all living in Moscow

South Africa was the second nation in history to create an opportunity to rewrite its own cultural language. Garth Walker explores why so little has changed. >
Mind your language

Taweni Gondwe believes that South Africa, with all of its diversity, should try incorporate more original South African humour into all aspects of its realm. >
Caroline Vos to be reckoned with

Selected works from the portfolio of illustrator and animator Caroline Vos. >
Lost and found

Graphic designers, unlike advertising creatives, on the whole don't spend much time fixating on what turns people on. >

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