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20Q: Eve Collett

Q&A > Product Design

Inspired by a variety of daily events, spiritual experiences and nature, Eve Collett's creativity manifests in gorgeous furniture designs. >

24 Aug 10
Untamed in the garden

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

An exhibition at Kirstenbosch bringing together sculpture, poetry and architecture, delves into the wild side of the human psyche. >

23 Jun 10
Water works

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

A solution to the looming world water crisis requires an interdisciplinary design approach. Australia’s been giving it some thought. >

23 Jun 10
5.5 Designers on sustaining great design

Talks > Product Design

5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable. >

4 Jun 10
Designomics

Festival News > Creative Economy / Design Thinking

At the 2010 Design Indaba Conference, Bruce Nussbaum positioned design at the heart of progressive economics. >

1 May 10
Heatherwick redefines the power station

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Never content to be categorised, Thomas Heatherwick has turned his architectural hand to a biomass-fuelled station and created a masterpiece >

2 Apr 10
The essential Alejandro Aravena at DI2010

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors

You’ll be forgiven for associating Alejandro Aravena’s architectural designs with the primitive. >

15 Dec 09
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
Amusing ourselves to death

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration / Information Design

Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines. >

3 Nov 09
Soil soul

Profiling > Urban & Landscape Design

Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet. >

1 Nov 09
State of Our Environment competition

Design News > Design Thinking / Design Thinking

Someone messing with your environment and you don’t know who to tell? Tell ACT about it in the State of Our Environment competition. >

7 Sep 09
Yves Béhar

Yves Béhar is the founder of the San Francisco and New York integrated design agency, fuseproject. >

12 Feb 09
Crafts: A matter of scale and pace

Opinion > Craft

Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort writes about the craft of smaller scale, slower pace and sustainable style. >

2 Feb 09
A spoonful of sugar

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration

Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness. >

1 Feb 09
An exhibition of Suss'tainble design

Do Tank News > Design Thinking

Presented by the KZNSA Gallery in partnership with Design Indaba. >

17 Nov 08
Suss’t: An alternative to mall culture

Do Tank News > Craft / Design Thinking

The KZNSA Gallery, in collaboration with Design Indaba, are presenting an exhibition of the best local sustainable design. >

1 Nov 08
Full moon for eco-fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Design Thinking

Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week. >

1 Nov 08
But how does nature make you feel?

Reviews > Product Design / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely. >

1 Nov 08
Save the designer 5.5

Q&A > Product Design

Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession. >

1 Nov 08
Green goes orange

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Architecture of Change is a book about sustainable buildings, and the cover has not a single shade of green. >

1 Nov 08
Edelkoort leaves Eindhoven

Design News > Design Thinking

Li Edelkoort resigned as chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland after 10 years in this role, but will remain affiliated. >

12 Aug 08
Side profile

Profiling > Design Thinking

Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >

1 Aug 08
Not out of the woods

Design News > Design Thinking

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >

2 Nov 07
Sustainable = humanist

Opinion > Industrial Design

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

1 Aug 07

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