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  • Doors of Cape Town print/canvas poster for sale.
    Doors of Cape Town
    An intrepid Capetonian is photographing good-looking doors around the city; and an Instagram account set up to document his findings is developing a following. >
  • 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. >
  • Andrzej Urbanski in studio preparing his upcoming exhibition, Mindgame, at Salon91 (opening 18 March, 2015)
    The tricking part
    Andrzej Urbanski's paintings may look like they were made by a computer, but the love for colour that fuels them is 100% human. >
  • Andrzej Urbanski in his Salt River studio preparing his upcoming exhibition, Mindgame, at Salon91 (opening 18 March, 2015)
    "The art of Andrzej Urbanski" by Rowan Pybus
    A short film about how artist Andrzej Urbanski experiments with colour in technically precise paintings made on the street and in his studio. >
  • One of Wired magazines “27 of the Most Inspiring Designs From 2014”: Michael Bierut’s overhaul of the MIT media lab logo.
    A special relationship
    Lauded New York City-based graphic designer Michael Bierut returns to emcee the Design Indaba Conference for the sixth time. This year, he’ll present as well. >
  • Cape Town ceramicist Kate Rosenberg's Africa-inspired vase from The Berg Collection, left; surrounded by some of her own pieces, as well as a collection of work by Imiso Ceramics and Light from Africa/Art in the Forest, middle; putting the finishing touches to a hand-built vessel vase, right.
    The Berg Collection by Kate Rosenberg
    Cape Town ceramicist Kate Rosenberg translates the handwoven grass baskets of her childhood into oversized black clay vessel vases. >
  • 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. >
  • Interlude's interactive music video version of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”.
    Storytelling that moves people
    Yoni Bloch is a triple threat for the technological age: a modern storyteller, a hit-making rock star/producer and a pretty funny interview. >
  • Design writer and critic Alice Rawsthorn
    Alice Rawsthorn: Extraordinary consequences
    The design writer and the Fuller Challenge judge speaks about one of the prize contenders: a Ugandan social design project with “extraordinary consequences”. >
  • Margot Janse and David Higgs at Design Indaba Conference 2014
    Margot Janse and David Higgs on their culinary trajectories
    Kitchen cowboys and 'kapokbos': These rock star South African chefs tell their stories and talk about what fine dining can be. >
  • South African chefs David Higgs and Margot Janse
    Margot Janse and David Higgs on their culinary trajectories (trailer)
    These multi-award winning, critically revered South African gourmets talk about the chef’s role in creating an experience, not just a dish. >
  • Reaping the benefits of Design Indaba initiatives
    Entrepreneurial expo exhibitors create direct and indirect jobs and income from business orders and sales to the public adds to GDP. >
  • The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa by Thomas Heatherwick.
    Breaking ground
    Contracts were signed and a celebration held to mark the commencement of construction of the first major world-class art museum in Africa. >
  • These boots are made for walking: South African vellies get a revamp.
    Glam vellies
    Velskoene, traditional South African shoes, have been jazzed up by a New York-based art director who collaborated with producers in Namibia and South Africa. >
  • Kenyan animator/filmmaker Ng'endo Mukii. Image: Alex MacNaughton.
    Nairobi dispatch
    Award-winning filmmaker, animator and director Ng'endo Mukii gives Design Indaba the lowdown on the experience of returning to Kenya after eight years abroad. >
  • Paper Cuts, an exhibit of limited edition prints, opens this week at The Cabinet in Cape Town.
    The Cabinet
    Paper Cuts, an exhibit of limited edition prints by a selection of local and international designers marks the opening this week of Cape Town's newest gallery. >
  • KLûK CGDT show at Nigeria Fashion Week 2012
    Africa on the catwalk
    There is an ever-increasing number of fashion weeks in Africa. But what does it mean for the fashion industry and the fashion designers in these countries? >
  • "If it works in Africa, it'll work anywhere" - the BRCK modem
    Democratising information
    A new type of modem has come out of Africa – one built for rugged African conditions that can withstand power cuts. >
  • The proposed design for a new skate park to be built in Gardens, Cape Town in 2014
    Skate park playscape
    The City of Cape Town’s winning entry in an international design competition means the first city centre skate park is coming to town. >
  • Street style in Ghana
    Sharp Sharp in Paris, and Accra
    Street-style photographer Ed Suter reports from Ghana. >
  • Cape Town-based ceramicist Clementina van der Walt's zig zag vase in red
    A design trek from SA to the USA
    New York's design goods e-tailer Fab.com has debuted its first South Africa focussed pop-up shop >
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