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"Get High" by Mr Moeh 24

Track of the Week • 2 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

This track by multitalented designer, photographer and DJ Mpumelelo Macu is a staple for anyone who values seamless production. >
Vitra Design Museum looks to Africa

Design News • 1 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The institution plans a major exhibition on contemporary African design in spring 2015. >
What's in a brief?

Video Interviews • 1 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Watch Tom Bassett's documentary "Briefly", featuring interviews with top designers such as Frank Gehry, Yves Béhar and David Rockwell. >
Designing better HIV treatment

Opinion • 1 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

Digital designer Jepchumba tells us about the making of Aviro, a mobile app for HIV clinicians to accurately prescribe ARV medication. >
Max Kisman: Creating visual headlines

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:40 • 1 Oct 14 • Sponsored Content

The Dutch typographer and illustrator's iconic posters "subtract the noise" but speak volumes. >
Eve bench by Frank Böhm Studios

Product Spotlight • 30 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The Cape Town-based architect begins a series of slender, clean-lined benches. >
Light and shadow

Design News • 29 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The subtle play of light through the spaces of this children's facility in the Japanese town of Yamadi-machi is designed to encourage healing. >
Well-heeled

Design News • 29 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

"Killer Heels" at the Brooklyn Museum explores the cultural history of the high heel. >
Walls that talk

Lookbook • 29 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

Robin Sprong Wallpaper wants to plaster your walls in pattern. Here are three recent collaborations with locally based designers. >
Aeon Rocket pendant light by Morten Voss

Product Spotlight • 28 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The Danish designer's new light harmoniously marries rigid material and malleable plastic. >
Lullaby pendant lamp by Monica Förster

Product Spotlight • 27 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The Swedish designer's harmonious angular light was inspired by the work of Isamu Noguchi. >
Inspiring Creativity

FilmFestFriday • 26 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

Poverty, humour, music, delusion – 21 artists tell us what drives their creative impulse. >
Take Five

Take Five • 26 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

It's no surprise that advertising stories were a big hit with readers the week after the Loerie Awards – in particular an essay by the much-loved Milton Glaser. >
Ulric Charteris: Conquering Kilimanjaro

Q&A • 26 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

South African adman Ulric Charteris on setting up shop in Dar es Salaam and why Tanzanians hate billboard advertising. >
"This Time" by TheCITY

Track of the Week • 25 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

Romantic and uplifting, this track by a unique-sounding band puts a futuristic, jazzy twist on an old-timey melody. >
Lattice work

Lookbook • 25 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

Cape Town-based Leg Studios launches a range of decor products inspired by nomadic African patterns. >
Emotional ceramics

Next Generation • 25 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

Students explore the future of this ancient material in "Ceramic Futures" at the CERSAIE expo of ceramic tiles and sanitaryware in Bologna, Italy. >
Competition: Win a copy of "In the City" by Greyworld

Digital News • 24 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

We want to see photos of the tweaks and hacks that improve life in your city. Post them to Instagram to enter our competition! #makechange >
Chris Gotz on building beautiful monsters

Talks • Duration: 00:36:27 • 24 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The chief creative officer of Ogilvy & Mather South Africa shares three campaigns that turned the agency around. >
Stephen Doyle: Magic, nonsense and macramé

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:06:08 • 23 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The New York-based graphic designer's love for words is so big, he's not content to leave them on the page. >
How useful are ad awards?

Hot Topic • 23 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

What is the value of advertising awards to agencies? Do they have value outside of the industry? Four agency heavyweights share their thoughts. >
Cork & Felt rugs by Hella Jongerius

Product Spotlight • 23 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The Dutch designer's collection for Danskina breaks away from traditional materials and manufacturing techniques. >
Bag it

Lookbook • 23 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The cheap "China bag" has become a symbol of migration in Africa – and a popular material for artists and designers to reimagine. >
Grandest of them all

Design News • 22 Sep 14 • Sponsored Content

The four winners of Grand Prix awards at this weekend's Loeries celebrated real-life, digital, print and radio. >

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