• Design Indaba Conference 2013
    VISI coverage of the Design Indaba Conference 2013
    Shoe fetishes, dancing sperm, digital music instruments, architectural typography, design hacking and high-rise hell headline at the Design Indaba Conference. >
  • Stratflex chair by Wintec Innovation
    Creativity, allure and inspiration
    There was no shortage of beautiful things at this year’s Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Urban acupuncture
    Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work. >
  • Photo by Sven Benjamins.
    Peace meal
    Can food bring about world peace? At least it can initiate understanding: Kamal Mouzawak, Merijn Tol, Shir Halpern and Nadia Zerouali recount their experiences. >
  • Smart art of eating
    Control freaks will be reluctant to hear Brian Wansink explaining how we think we’re a lot smarter than we are when it comes to food. >
  • Birds of a feather
    Diamond magnate Laurence Graff has marked the maturation of the Delaire Graff Estate with an art installation of birds. >
  • Blog: Day 2 of Toffie Food
    The second day of the Toffie Food Festival saw Tammy Frazer talk of scent, Wolfgang Koedel of beer and world-famous blogger Julie Powell of butchery. >
  • Blog: Day 1 of Toffie Food
    Coffee gastronomy, a food taste tour of Madiba's life and an exploration of the oldest food culture in the world stand out on the first day of the Toffie Food f >
  • (In)formal connections
    Jorge Mario Jáuregui works to integrate Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with the formal city, using articulation through public spaces. >
  • Stranger
    Photographer Damien Schumann spent six months documenting the fraught USA-Mexican border cities. >
  • Power for art’s sake
    South African painter Carla Busuttil has caught Charles Saatchi’s eye among others. >
  • Painting Obscura
    Critics and scholars read Zander Blom’s art as a contemporary South African revision of Modernism. >
  • Blog: A tactile future at Milan2011
    Li Edelkoort presents the future of textiles in a student exhibition at Ventura Lambrate and a professional exhibition at Gianfranco Ferre. >
  • Blog: Students push materials at Milan2011
    Students from Bezalel, Royal College of Arts and Central St Martins show how to push the parameters of materials at Ventura Lambrate. >
  • Blog: Day 3 of Toffie Festival
    Toffie's last day boasted a powerful foursome of presentations by Smiso Zwane, Jonathan Puckey, Alex Trochut and Daito Manabe. >
  • Blog: Day 2 of Toffie Festival
    Highlights of day two of Toffie include studioMAS, Jürg Lehni, Javier Lourenco, Tumi Molekane, Richard de Jager and Cobi van Tonder. >
  • Blog: Day 1 of Toffie Festival
    The first day of the Toffie Pop Culture Festival opens a range of exhibitions and presents inspiring commercial activism from Conn Bertish. >
  • Handspring Puppet Company
    Puppets that breathe
    Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones and others reflect on their craft in the Handspring Puppet Company book edited by Jane Taylor. >
  • No idle racism
    Anton Kannemeyer's new Bitterkomix collection Pappa in Afrika deals with the controversial and uncomfortable topic of racism. >
  • Alejandro Aravena: Elemental housing solution in Santa Catarina, Mexico. Photo: Ramiro Ramirez.
    The good half house
    Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha. >
  • Google this
    “Get the genius out the building”, is Robert Wong’s brief as creative director of Google Creative Lab. >
  • A Fine Line by Hartmut Esslinger.
    The story of innovation
    From garage enterprise to multinational. In A Fine Line Hartmut Esslinger takes the reader on frog design's life journey. >

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