• Tasting the creative process
    Bubblegum spaceships, an idea kitchen and food as performance art. Emilie Baltz's job is so Willy Wonka one has no idea how she crafts a career out of it. >
  • In “Lickestra”, a licking ice cream orchestra, different sounds were created from different slurps. Image: ©emiliebaltz
    You are how you eat
    Emilie Baltz designs tools and eating experiences that surprise and delight – and make you rethink your relationship to food. >
  • Michael Bierut: The primitive power of logos.
    Michael Bierut (Part 2): The primitive power of logos
    The award-winning graphic designer decodes why the simple shapes of a logo can have such great impact. >
  • Hot on the heels of launching his new book at Design Indaba Conference, Michael Bierut tells us about the challenges of representing your own work.
    Michael Bierut (Part 1): How to... write a book about your work
    Hot on the heels of launching his new book at Design Indaba Conference, Michael Bierut tells us about the challenges of representing your own work. >
  • "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" title sequence design by Pentagram's Emily Oberman.
    Tweenage identity
    Pentagram partner Emily Oberman has designed the opening titles for Tina Fey and Robert Carlock’s new comedy show. >
  • Michael Beirut announces his new book: “How to: Use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, and (every once in a while) change the world.”
    How to...
    Michael Bierut has a new book and he’s talking about it for the first time at Design Indaba. >
  • Artist Margaret Keane is the subject of Tim Burton's newest film "Big Eyes".
    Eyes wide open
    Meet the real-life Margaret Keane, whose story is told in Tim Burton’s newest film, “Big Eyes”, which kicks off the FilmFest tonight. >
  • "David Adjaye - Collaborations."
    "David Adjaye – Collaborations: Pitch Black" by Oliver Hardt
    This excerpt from a new documentary on the architect David Adjaye goes inside his first project built in the US: the studio of artist Lorna Simpson. >
  • Tia Blassingame
    Tia Blassingame
    Artist
    Tia Blassingame uses the art of letterpress printing in her work which explores the relationship between race, history and perception. >
  • Kathryn Fleming
    Kathryn Fleming
    Multidisciplinary Designer
    Kathryn Fleming is a multidisciplinary designer exploring the intersections of science, art and technology. >
  • Doremy Diatta
    Doremy Diatta
    Multidisciplinary Designer
    Doremy Diatta uses transdisciplinary design in the practice of mental health and learning. >
  • Burning Man is a week-long festival of interactive art in the Nevada desert.
    Beyond Black Rock City
    Larry Harvey, founding member of Burning Man, puts the idea down to a whim one afternoon. Now Burning Man-style interactive art is appearing worldwide. >
  • Larry Harvey.
    Larry Harvey
    Art Director
    Larry Harvey is the founding board member and chief philosophic officer of Burning Man, an annual festival of arts in the Nevada desert. >
  • Adam Wells illustrates a story of Modern Love. Image: nytimes.com
    "Modern Love: Breaching the Seawall" by Adam Wells
    Taken from the “Modern Love” column published in The New York Times, Adam Wells animates the story of a woman who falls in love in the Philippines. >
  • Los Angeles food truck chef and restaurateur Roy Choi chats to actor/writer/director Jon Favreau on the set of "Chef" in which he plays a Los Angeles food truck chef and restaurateur.
    Keep on truckin'
    The "godfather" of the Californian food truck movement is coming to Cape Town. It’s a good thing we’ll have 14 food trucks on tap. >
  • Roy Choi
    Roy Choi
    Chef
    As a creator of LA's celebrated gourmet food truck culture, this chef did more than sling marinated Korean barbecue tacos. He brought Los Angelenos together. >
  • Bill Watterson's newest 15 panel cartoon strip.
    Whatever happened to Watterson?
    Notoriously media-shy cartoonist Bill Watterson features in the comic-strip documentary film “Stripped”, to be screened at Design Indaba FilmFest 2015. >
  • The top five stories of the week range from Angel-Ho to baby survival kits.
    Take Five
    The heartwarming story of two fathers using design to help underprivileged newborns in their country drew the attention of readers this week. >
  • Andrea Zittel: Wagon Station Encampment
    Andrea Zittel: Wagon Station Encampment
    Art21 releases the second of a two-part documentary on Andrea Zittel. In this installation she talks about wagons and “sci-fi pioneer aesthetics”. >
  • "Big Eyes", a film by Tim Burton.
    Big Eyes
    Director Tim Burton lets the viewer step inside the life and work of acclaimed American artist Margaret Keane in this brilliant, biographical comedy-drama. >
  • The entertainment designer
    Multidisciplinary designer Emily Oberman has a formidable portfolio of work. We have a look at some of the campaigns she championed. >
  • Susan Sontag
    Regarding Susan Sontag
    She famously said: I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. “Regarding Susan Sontag” tells the story of the legendary writer, critic and traveller. >
  • Stripped poster by Bill Watterson.
    Stripped
    “Stripped” is a love-letter to comic strips and an investigation into what happens to comics in a failing newspaper industry. >
  • Emily Oberman
    Brand Specialist • Filmmaker • Multidisciplinary Designer
    Emily Oberman’s work in the entertainment and hospitality industries has demonstrated how design can be integral to the creation of brand identity. >

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