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  • Blinky Bill
    Blinky Bill talks socially conscious music and breaking free of genre constraints
    Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design
    The former Just a Band frontman gets in depth about the power of music. >
    23 Aug 17
  • Isabel Mager
    Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value
    Video Interviews > Design Thinking / Industrial Design
    This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life. >
    18 Aug 17
  • Aeon eye intro
    Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past
    Opinion > Film & Animation
    The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before. >
    15 Aug 16
  • Tomas Kral
    Talks > Industrial Design / Product Design
    ECAL graduate Tomas Kral talks about designing a luxury tea set for his graduation project and integrating craft and industrial design. >
    27 Jul 11
  • Solar Sinter
    Design News > Interaction Design
    What if sand and sunlight could be used as the raw energy and material to produce glass objects using 3D printers? >
    25 Jul 11
  • Plain Clay
    Design News > Product Design
    Maarten Baas's Plain Clay designs aim to be accessible to more people. >
    15 Jul 11
  • M-Collection at Milan2011
    Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Product Design
    Design duo Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe talk about their design process and designing modular furniture systems. >
    28 Apr 11
  • Blog: Students push materials at Milan2011
    Design News > Product Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Students from Bezalel, Royal College of Arts and Central St Martins show how to push the parameters of materials at Ventura Lambrate. >
    11 Apr 11
  • Tord Boontje
    Tord Boontje on nature and creativity
    Talks > Craft / Product Design
    Design is intricately linked to making, creativity and the future says Tord Boontje. >
    29 Mar 11
  • Carl Lamprecht interview by Marius vd Merwe
    Video Interviews >
    Marius van der Merwe interviews Carl Lamprecht for his contribution to the Design Indaba Film Crew 2011. >
    8 Feb 11
  • Basket Case.
    Baskets for bread
    Design News > Product Design / Craft
    Basket Case celebrated the crafting skills of basket makers in Zimbabwe recently. >
    27 Dec 10
  • Album exhibition. Photo: Studio Bouroullec.
    Album treasures
    Design News > Product Design
    The Bouroullec Brothers present an "Album" exhibition of their work, which is like a journey through their creative treasure trove. >
    15 Dec 10
  • Commonwealth at Design Indaba
    Commonwealth on bridging the divide
    Talks > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design / Interaction Design / Product Design
    Commonwealth talk about the process of bridging the divide between designing and making objects. >
    12 Jul 10
  • Cereal assemblage
    Design News > Interaction Design
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Grown tables
    Design News > Product Design
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Design Indaba magazine crafts the future
    Do Tank News > Craft
    The Q109 edition of Design Indaba magazine, “The Cr*ft", celebrates the slow making, culturally sensitive, hand-touched qualities of craft. >
    11 Feb 09
  • Craft debate: Inga Sempé
    Design News > Product Design / Craft
    Product designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Inga Sempé weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >
    1 Feb 09
  • Labour of love
    Opinion > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne. >
    1 May 05
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