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  • Green Goal 2010 expo. Photo: Stephen Lamb.
    Going for green goals
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The World Cup may be about soccer but it's also the perfect opportunity to draw people's attention to the importance of setting green goals. >
    28 Jun 10
  • Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture
    Design News > Product Design
    Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea. >
    30 May 10
  • Exhibitor success story: BOUSQUET Creations
    Design News > Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Combine design, beauty, a lot of waste material and a fresh look at the old, and you get innovation that brings a smile to your face. >
    30 May 10
  • Image via Treehugger
    Dreaming of a green wedding
    Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Design Thinking
    There's finally an eco-friendly alternative to that classic garment that usually only gets worn once. >
    27 May 10
  • Enjoy Twice lamp by Niels Craens
    Waste not, want not
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Niels Craens is using old cardboard drinking packages to create beautiful lampshades. One drink, double the fun. >
    23 Apr 10
  • Something old for something new
    Design News > Product Design
    Design Indaba Expo 2010: Using old tyres, Tyred create custom designed chairs, ottomans and tables that can be used indoors and outdoors. >
    20 Feb 10
  • Big in Brazil
    Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design
    Frederico Duarte sits down with Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum to unpack a celebrity status beyond the boundaries of design. >
    11 Feb 10
  • New made rubbish
    Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design
    Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways. >
    1 Feb 10
  • Protofarm 2050
    Do Tank News > Information Design / Interaction Design / Design Thinking
    Design Indaba will be presenting Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November. >
    3 Nov 09
  • Green and envied!
    Festival News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Wasteful, disposable excess is out and more grounded, durable luxury is in at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >
    19 Feb 09
  • Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
    Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Design Thinking
    All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
    1 Feb 09
  • DIY electronic eco-design?
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change. >
    1 Nov 08
  • Waste worthy of art
    Design News > Craft / Design Thinking
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
    1 Nov 08
  • The green pink party
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Product Design
    Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007. >
    2 Feb 08
  • A kick and a wink
    Opinion > Industrial Design
    Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms. >
    1 Feb 08
  • Zip-Tie Lights by Steven Haulenbeek.
    How many designers does it take to change the light?
    Opinion > Design Thinking
    The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >
    1 Aug 07
  • Nature V2.01 by Draw Me A Sheep.
    A Kyoto treaty for design
    Opinion > Design Thinking
    The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >
    1 Aug 07
  • Inkuku chair by Ryan Frank.
    Flotsam and jetsam
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture. >
    1 Aug 07
  • Buying green back
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental. >
    1 Aug 07
  • Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG
    Design News > Creative Economy
    Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever. >
    1 May 07
  • Four-part green manifesto
    Opinion > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Product Design
    Design Indaba invites Haldane Martin, Heath Nash, Keith Struthers and Kommetjie Environmental Awareness Group to share their manifestos. >
    1 Aug 06
  • My lights manifesto
    Profiling > Design Thinking / Product Design
    Named as the 2006 Elle Decoration South Africa Designer of the Year, Heath Nash excels at making treasures from trash. >
    1 Aug 06
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