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Professor Shin-ichi Takemura announces the dawn of a new era of mass media. >

With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger. >

Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design. >

Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many. >

During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest. >

Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are... >

Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is. >

Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective. >

map n 1 a diagrammatic representation of the Earth’s surface or part of it. 2 what Design Indaba asked four Cape Town creatives to redefine >

Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms. >

William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour. >

Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life. >

Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >

In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington. >

“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang. >

Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >

Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit. >

Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing. >

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat. >

"If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests. >

During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis. >

The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support. >

Over the last 10 years or so, Bitterkomix has been consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore. >