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Fear of flying
Thrill engineer Brendan Walker talks about the psychological, biological and narrative elements that feed kicks.
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Four legs good, two legs bad
Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others.
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Save the designer 5.5
Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession.
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Sound/culture smash
Paul D Miller – aka DJ Spooky – addresses “the remix” in his new book Sound Unbound.
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Hot or cold?
Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop.
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Design stuffs its face
Fabrico Próprio: The Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery makes a strong case for the design fame of 90 single-serving cakes.
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Head honcho
South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success.
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Power art
Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters.
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All that glitters
Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling.
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Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous
Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces.
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Diminutive disaster
Constantin Boym talks about what the 20th century taught him about the power of the miniature and memory.
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Look ma, no skool
Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing.
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Side profile
Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Orchestrating chaos
Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp.
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On the virtual edge
The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK.
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Optical delusions
Cape Town's emo-electro outfit Unit.r have launched their debut album decked out in a full-house design campaign from illustrator Kronk.
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Phantom limbs
With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger.
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Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design.
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The plight of healing plants
Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.
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The bobo movement
Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.
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Shoe-wow!
Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.
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Maximum velocity
When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique.
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From the stomach to the heart
“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.
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1+1 makes 3
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.
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