Opinion | Design Indaba

Notes from the Fashion Indaba

Opinion > Craft / Design Thinking / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis. >

1 May 05
Labour of love

Opinion > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne. >

1 May 05
The optimist on the designer optimised

Opinion > Industrial Design / Product Design / Urban & Landscape Design

Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design. >

1 May 05
Where black and white melted into brown

Opinion > Creative Economy

Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself. >

1 May 05
Digital designers square up for New Media Awards

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1 May 05
Sculpting the Land

Opinion > Design Thinking

These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific". >

1 Feb 05
Digital designers square up for CNMA

Opinion > Interaction Design

South Africa's most talented digital designers are vying for the chance to spend a week at London multimedia house Poke. >

1 Feb 05
Zest for Life

Opinion > Product Design / Craft / Design Thinking

An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London. >

1 Feb 05
Workshop with Oscar Pena

Opinion > Industrial Design / Product Design

In the assignment plus ONE minus ONE, the aim was to change one aspect of an existing product. >

1 Nov 04
Workshop with Ilse Crawford

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design

Invent, design and present an African feast that is not just visual but engages all the senses. What does Africa feel like? >

1 Nov 04
Future perfect

Opinion > Product Design / Architecture & Interiors

Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK), writes about the architectural achievements of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete. >

1 Nov 04
Contradiction

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher creative partner, writes about the challenges of packaging design. >

1 Aug 04
Ambiguity and truth

Opinion > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

Milton Glaser writes about the complexities behind making communication clear and effective. >

1 Aug 04
Avant garden

Opinion > Urban & Landscape Design

Spring has sprung in the UK and Dan Pearson is busy, writes Lynda Relph-Knight. >

1 May 04
Construction New Media Awards 2004

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CNMA judges Tom Roope, Patrick Burgoyne and Andries Odendaal share their thoughts. >

1 May 04
Africa welcomes Kenya

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

Kenya Hara is a design icon. His work is deeply rooted in Japanese culture, where he has spearheaded the image of many global events. >

1 Feb 04
Past, present, future in design

Opinion > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Design as we currently understand and practise it is being radically changed on several levels, writes Prof John Heskett. >

1 Nov 03
Another kind of logic

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors

I've been thinking of how to have an argument. No, not the kind where you say "Get out of my way". >

1 Aug 03
Identity crisis

Opinion > Creative Economy / Food Design

Is the South African wine industry managing to convey a compelling sense of self to the outside world? >

1 Aug 03
Forces favourites

Opinion > Design Activism / Graphic Design & Illustration

It is said that the real era of SA posters began in the 1980s, a fact largely attributed to the formation of the Screen Printing Project. >

1 Aug 03
Who's food is this?

Opinion > Food Design

Hardy McQueen makes the case for indigenous cuisine. >

1 May 03
Icons of the South

Opinion > Design Thinking / Creative Economy

What does the South have to offer the world with regards icons? >

1 May 03
Life And Debt

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1 May 03
Paradox

Opinion > Creative Economy

Our world is a great paradox that turns around in the universe, writes Eduardo Galeano. >

1 May 03

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