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  • Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook
    Julia Hasting: The unusual book designer
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook. >
    11 Dec 15
  • Alex Atala
    Alex Atala
    Alex Atala is an acclaimed Brazilian chef whose work is concerned with traditional Brazilian cuisine, using native ingredients. >
    6 Feb 13
  • The Family Meal by Ferran Adria
    Step-by-step with Ferran Adrià
    Reviews > Food Design
    Now you don't need to be a gastronomic guru to cook with Ferran Adrià. The top chef's The Family Meal takes you through it step-by-step. >
    23 May 12
  • The bull is not dead
    Q&A > Food Design
    Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity. >
    16 Nov 11
  • Food fight: Vince Frost
    Design News > Food Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost. >
    15 Nov 11
  • Ricky Burdett at Open Book
    Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Urban & Landscape Design
    Professor Ricky Burdett talks about Living in the Endless City, a book that gives a comprehensive overview of contemporary urbanism. >
    29 Sep 11
  • Living in the Endless City.
    Endlessly urban
    Reviews > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design
    Living in the Endless City is a comprehensive look at the challenges facing the city of the 21st century. >
    19 Sep 11
  • The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher. Published by Phaidon.
    Mind Over Matter
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    An exhibition at Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Alan Fletcher on the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways. >
    16 Aug 11
  • Harry Pearce
    Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design
    Talks > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process. >
    7 Jul 11
  • Question mark
    Reviews > Creative Economy
    What is your guiltiest pleasure? Have you had any homosexual experiences? Are you a racist? Do you believe in the death penalty? >
    29 May 11
  • Animation overload
    Reviews >
    If you’re a manga or anime fan you’re in for a delight. Or probably rather an emotion more akin to complete indulgence, you get the idea. >
    27 May 11
  • Famous food
    Reviews > Food Design / Creative Economy
    Reinventing Food tells the story of Ferran Adrià's rise from dishwasher to world-famous gastronomic maestro. >
    9 Feb 11
  • Heath Nash + Hella Jongerius
    Dialogues > Craft / Product Design
    From the icy global hub of Berlin in Germany and the sunny backwaters of Coffee Bay in South Africa, Hella Jongerius and Heath Nash met on Skype. >
    1 Feb 11
  • Francis Kéré
    Francis Kéré
    Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso. The focus of Kéré’s drafts are climatic adaptation, low building costs and self building. >
    14 Dec 10
  • Ellis Park Swimming Pool.
    Journey through Jo'Burg
    Reviews > Creative Economy / Urban & Landscape Design
    Jo'burg is a place of harsh contrasts and with fast pace. But it's also full of hidden treasures, as the Wallpaper* guide points out. >
    24 Sep 10
  • The Wallpaper* City Guide to Cape Town. Photo: Courtesy of Phaidon publishers.
    The Republic of Cape Town
    Reviews > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration
    It’s a local joke that Cape Town is a republic of its own. The Wallpaper* City Guide gives some hints as to why. >
    4 Aug 10
  • The future is entertaining
    Reviews > Creative Economy
    Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity. >
    2 Jun 10
  • 10x10/3
    Inevitable architectural change
    Reviews > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy
    An up-to-the-minute commentary on contemporary architecture examining the changing innovations by the world's leading architects. >
    12 Feb 10
  • Hella Jongerius. Photo: Markus Jans.
    Hella Jongerius
    Hella Jongerius is an internationally celebrated contemporary product designer, born in the Netherlands. >
    10 Feb 09
  • Dutch treat
    Festival News > Industrial Design / Product Design / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Four internationally renowned speakers at the Design Indaba 2007 share Dutch roots and an eye for design. >
    1 Feb 07
  • The art of looking sideways
    Do Tank News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Design Indaba magazine pays tribute to graphic design guru Alan Fletcher. >
    1 Nov 06
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