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"Safare" by Vieux Farka Touré

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

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

10 Jul 14
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Braaitjie by Dieter Zermatten

Product Spotlight > Industrial Design

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

10 Jul 14
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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
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The world's most pressing problems?

Hot Topic > Design Thinking

If there were a global design agency stationed at the UN bringing governments, NPOs and designers together, what issues would it address?

9 Jul 14
00:05:36

Bogosi Sekhukhuni: Taking back technology

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

This young South African artist uses digital technology to create positive icons of African humanity.

9 Jul 14
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A desert in Venice

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

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

9 Jul 14
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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
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Inside View: 3 creative tools

Inside View > Design Thinking

Don't underestimate how handy these three humble (and free) tools can be, says our digital product manager, Sarah Jayne Fell.

8 Jul 14
00:04:33

Teshia Treuhaft: What a chair needs to be

Video Interviews > Product Design

The Rhode Island School of Design graduate collaborated with a dancer to map out the fundamentals of a chair.

7 Jul 14
00:03:10

Dave Hakkens: The last phone you'll ever need

Video Interviews > Product Design

Meet the Design Academy Eindhoven graduate who could help revolutionise cellular technology.

7 Jul 14
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Q&A: Thebe Ikalafeng

Q&A > African Design

We chat to one of Africa's leading brand gurus about his appointment to the jury of the Red Dot Communication Design Awards.

7 Jul 14
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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
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Outside In: Joost Alferink

Inside View > Creative Economy

Looking in on Africa from the European perspective, Joost Alferink shares an outsider's perspective on the state of the creative industry on the continent.

6 Jul 14
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Focus on: Marble's comeback

Focus On > Product Design

More and more designers are being inspired by the ancient stone's striated smoothness. Here are five recent examples from our archives.

6 Jul 14
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Outside In: Lynda Relph-Knight

Inside View > Creative Economy

Design writer and former editor of Design Week Lynda Relph-Knight gives Design Indaba an outsider's perspective on the design future of Africa.

5 Jul 14
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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
00:05:04

Ije Nwokorie: The changing currency of brands

Video Interviews > Information Design

The global CEO of Wolff Olins offers insights into changing approach to branding in an age where immediacy makes all the difference.

4 Jul 14
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Take Five

Take Five > Music & Sound Design

A balmy musical track and a fierce video, a juicy exhibition and a leading exhibition designer - here are this week's most popular features.

4 Jul 14
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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
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Michel Rojkind on a design strategy to cope with overstimulation (trailer)

Trailers > Architecture & Interiors

The Mexican architect shares three ways he wades through our world of chaos and flux to create award-winning work.

3 Jul 14
00:05:13

Haroon Gunn-Salie: History's vigilante

Video Interviews > Art & Photography

Listen to the Cape Town-based artist talk about how he uses the city as his canvas to raise the ghosts of South Africa's past.

3 Jul 14
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"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
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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
00:06:35

Michel Rojkind: Buildings that go beyond the brief

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors

Find out how Mexican architect Michel Rojkind uses a nifty design tool to help clients imagine so much more for their buildings.

2 Jul 14

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