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Design News > Design Thinking

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >

1 Aug 07
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
Waste not want not

Opinion > Fashion & Jewellery Design

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

1 Aug 07
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
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
Geografias ingenuas

Design News > Product Design / Interaction Design

Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary. >

1 Feb 07
High five

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Mike Edmonds, an associate director of Arup, identified five of the world's most significant sustainable architecture projects. >

1 Aug 06
My architecture manifesto

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Foremost eco-architect Keith Struthers of Natural Architecture builds with sustainable materials like clay, wood, living plants and stone. >

1 Aug 06
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
Rural renewal

Opinion > Craft / Urban & Landscape Design

One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >

1 Aug 06
Moving on up

Opinion > Urban & Landscape Design

Going high-tech isn't always the answer to rural transport problems. Sometimes the way forward lies with simple yet sustainable solutions. >

1 Feb 06
Take design advantage

Opinion > Industrial Design / Design Thinking

Would you bet money on South Africa getting ahead in the global design game? What is it that really holds the Third World back? >

1 Nov 05
Notes from the Fashion Indaba

Opinion > Craft / Design Thinking / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis. >

1 May 05
Broad appeal

Festival News > Design Thinking

This year's Design Indaba Conference has been pronounced the biggest, most diverse and most relevant in the event's ten-year history. >

1 May 05
Hyper designer

Q&A > Industrial Design / Product Design

Karim Rashid designs everything – even his own words. Naoto Fukasawa interviews him. >

1 Aug 03
Architectural Indaba

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors

Between 4,5 and 5 million South Africans have received "secure tenure" homes since 1994. Sean O'Toole looks beyond the statistics. >

1 Aug 02
First things first

Q&A > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

Sean O'Toole spoke to Kalle Lasn, asking him about his decision to revive a dusty design manifesto from 1964. >

1 Aug 02
Representing illusions

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

At the heart of recent discussions on sustainable development lie illusions. These illusions are founded on images, writes Lewis Blackwell. >

1 Aug 02

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