Maciek Dubla

Taste bud trickery

Swapping pots and pans for lasers and liquid nitrogen, Maciek Dubla chats to Homaro Cantu and Ben Roche about the benefits of food replication. >
Partnership with Typo London

Design Indaba is pleased to announce a media partnership with TYPO London, a conference focussing on typography and graphic design. >
Design can-do

The inaugural What Design Can Do conference brought together designers, thinkers and doers working in a transformative space. >
Endemic systems

Known for its chaotic masses and vast economic disparities, Mumbai’s slums do not need a bulldozer but an alternative perspective. >
Blog: What Design Can Do conference round-up

Dutch courage pays off at the What Design Can Do conference. >
Blog: Day 2 of What Design Can Do Conference

The last day of the What Design Can Do conference was a mix and match of a little bad with a whole lot of good. >
Blog: Day 1 of What Design Can Do Conference

Rohan Shivkumar, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares and Oliviero Toscani stood out on day one of the What Design Can Do Conference in Amsterdam. >
Pattern people

Renée Rossouw and Laduma Ngxokolo take abstract patterns from school-day simplicity to allusions about personal identity. >
Sunny Side Up

Shy The Sun has taken their brand of quirky fantasy and broken commercial boundaries both locally and abroad. >
Li Edelkoort presents a future past

A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future. >
The future is entertaining

Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity. >
Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx

From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit. >
Exhibitor success story: User Design

As the world lifts itself from the rubble left by the economic downturn, design is taking a new turn and looking to new inspiration. >
Exhibitor success story: Springleap.com

If a T-shirt is the staple garment in everyone’s wardrobe, then it makes sense for designers to use it as a platform for expression. >
Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture

Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea. >
Exhibitor success story: BOUSQUET Creations

Combine design, beauty, a lot of waste material and a fresh look at the old, and you get innovation that brings a smile to your face. >
Exhibitor success story: Michelle Ludik

Step into a department store to buy clothes and you’re confronted with every possible style of design, yet never quite the style... >
Exhibitor success story: blue collar white collar

If you’re looking for exclusively tailored casual and formal shirts of the highest standard, then you can stop looking. >
Exhibitor success story: Ayesha Kamalie

Ayesha Kamalie isn’t just a painter, or a fashion designer, or a product designer. She’s all of these, as well as a qualified architect. >
Exhibitor success story: Cupcake Country

There’s nothing more delicious than a freshly baked cupcake, straight out the oven and covered in gloriously thick sugary icing. >
Exhibitor success story: Woza Moya / Hillcrest Aids

The Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust was established in 1991 offering testing and counselling to the local communities outside Durban. >
Milk anyone?

The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje. >
Biologically creative

Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems. >
Blame it on the bunny

Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful. >

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