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Legends of Echo

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design

The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game. >

12 Jun 10
Green city installations for Seed Cathedral

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Some interesting additions have been made to the UK Pavilion's already spectacular Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai Expo. >

28 May 10
Dr J Craig Venter breaks through

Talks > Interaction Design

On the verge of a scientific breakthrough, Dr J Craig Venter presented his work at the 2010 Design Indaba Conference via satellite link. >

27 May 10
The Synthetic Kingdom

Design News > Interaction Design

The Synthetic Kingdom by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg considers how natural or unnatural life will be classified when life is built by humans. >

24 May 10
Bedroom Biology for Teenagers

Design News > Interaction Design

Dearbhaile Heaney’s Bedroom Biology for Teenagers is a guide to biological experimentation within the home using engineered bacteria. >

24 May 10
Cellularity

Design News > Interaction Design

Cellularity by James King explores the development of cell-like structures, or “chells” that mimic the features of biological cells. >

24 May 10
Softest words

Design News > Interaction Design

Softest Words by Kevin Grennan proposes a private love letter written in unique ink made of the saliva of two lovers. >

24 May 10
The Gaia Corporation

Design News > Interaction Design

The Gaia Corporation by J Paul Neeley explores the implications of synthetic biology by imagining the world in 2023. >

24 May 10
(In)visible membrane

Design News > Interaction Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Sonja Bäumel’s (In)visible Membrane is about life on the human body and its design applications. >

24 May 10
Venter creates synthetic life

Design News > Interaction Design

We finally know why Dr J Craig Venter could not attend the 2010 Design Indaba Conference in person. Yesterday he announced his breakthrough. >

21 May 10
Design Indaba magazine gets lusty

Do Tank News > Creative Economy / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

“It’s an ad joke. If you want to sell something without trying too hard just add sex, puppies or children.” Get the new Design Indaba mag. >

19 May 10
A little less conversation

Design News > Interaction Design

The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever. >

3 May 10
Biologically creative

Design News > Interaction Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems. >

2 May 10
A little koekie time

Design News > Interaction Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book. >

2 May 10
To form and multiply

Inside View > Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg asks what traditional design can bring to synthetic biology. >

1 May 10
President love dress

Opinion > Design Thinking / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

Odidiva, star of House of Holy Afro and the new face of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, explains the power of wearing a dress. >

1 May 10
Welcome to Hotel Yeoville

Design News > Interaction Design

Hotel Yeoville utilises the internet to make people feel at home, wherever they are in the world. >

29 Apr 10
Laikingland’s kinetic sculptures at Milan 2010

Design News > Product Design / Interaction Design

Miniature collapsing chairs, a storytelling time-piece, tea cups full of mechanical storms and a machine that goes off with a bang… >

19 Apr 10
DI Party2010: Part 2 of 2

Festival News > Interaction Design

Guests at the annual Design Indaba Party were entertained by Funafuji, Magic Carpet Ride, Popskarr, Jack Parow, Krushed & Sorted, Goodluck and Anthea. >

16 Apr 10
Afridoctor diagnosing direct from your handset

Design News > Information Design / Design Thinking / Interaction Design

Africa’s first personal mobile health clinic took first place in the Nokia Africa Calling All Innovators application competition. >

10 Apr 10
Heads above the rest

Design News > Interaction Design

As the puppeteer of 5m-tall puppets, Daniel Popper is expecting to captivate soccer fans with his larger-than-life soccer players. >

29 Mar 10
A trend Flux

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

The 2010 Flux Trend Review conference took place recently and identified key business trends emerging from a cross section of industries. >

18 Mar 10
Spier Contemporary announces winners

Design News > Interaction Design / Architecture & Interiors

After over 2 700 entries, the judges of the Spier Contemporary 2010 national art competition have announced the winners. >

18 Mar 10
Troika answers all at DI2010

Design News > Information Design / Interaction Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Conny Freyer, Eva Rucki and Sebastien Noel of Troika electrified with their playful and thoroughly executed interaction designs. >

15 Mar 10

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