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Design heavyweights Terence Conran and Stephen Bayley come together to beautifully package and present this 300-page design encyclopaedia. >

The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of the English language, a plunge into the world of words and a dip into a decidedly interesting lexis. >

Playing a key role in South African arts education, the 14th Taxi art book celebrates Helen Sebedi's contribution to art during apartheid. >

In the north-west of SA, a wall is being built, an open-ended celebration of the skills and artistry of the people, writes Neil Stemmet. >

Wooster Collective founders Marc and Sara Schiller discuss the coming-of-age of street art and its significance to the cities it populates. >

As the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 looms on the horizon, Comedian Louw Venter takes a look at how South Africa will remember "the world". >

When it seems that one man's life has been divinely designed to create the logo for Africa's biggest even, can we call it only destiny? >

The FIFA 20 Centres for 2010 exemplify how world sustainability can be underwritten by Africa’s bountiful endurance. >

The World Cup is a golden opportunity for South Africa to show off so Marine Leblond goes beyond the budgets of our new stadiums. >

Leonard Shapiro explains South Africa’s craft enterprises are reaching self-sufficiency and hankering for the next level: Industrialisation. >

True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album. >

William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist. >

Never Use White Type on a Black Background must be one of the most fun and quirky books one can read about design and fashion rules. >

In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise. >

The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008. >

After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won. >

For Zinkplaat's fourth album, designers Fanakalo.co.za created a scratch-off album cover. >

Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming. >

Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >

Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >

Righard Kapp recently released four albums on his garage label Jaunted Haunts Press. >

For the limited-edition of the Pet Shop Boys’s latest offering, Yes, Mark Farrow certainly responds in the affirmative. >

Photographer Stan Engelbrecht’s German language follow-up to the successful African Salad, Das is(s)t Deutschland was recently launched. >

With barely a human subject in sight, Roger Ballen’s newest book, Boarding House, makes his oeuvre even more intangible. >

Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >