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

The hot new +27 Design Cafe in Pretoria recently showcased Andre Pereira’s most renowned works of Gig Art. >

Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit. >

In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant. >

Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >

Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009. >

RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam. >

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >

Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba. >

Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing. >