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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
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
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
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
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
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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