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Kinetic façade

Design News • 14 Jan 14

Asif Khan has designed “a Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. >
Presenting the Emerging Creatives for Design Indaba Expo 2014

Festival News • 13 Jan 14

Meet the 42 Emerging Creatives who are stepping onto our career launchpad at Design Indaba Expo 2014. >
Madiba memorial mural

Design News • 13 Jan 14

Cape Town-based street artist Freddy Sam has unveiled a ten-storey tall mural of Madiba in the inner city of Johannesburg. >
Contemporary cobbler

Profiling • 13 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

Industrial designer Earl Steward explores the possibilities of multi-material 3D printing that allows for footwear to be tailored to the individual. >
Calendar accessories

Design News • 12 Jan 14

Tom Dixon looks to sustainable design with his Tool the Perpetual Calendar, which is made from stainless steel and can be reused year after year. >
Go with the flow

Design News • 12 Jan 14

Nendo takes inspiration from city streets and movement patterns for the design of interiors for the retail spaces of fashion label Theory. >
Ghostly apparitions

Design News • 11 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

"Ghost" is Catalonian interior and industrial designer, Martí Guixé's new take on classic Kerman rug design. >
Eccentric travelling

Design News • 11 Jan 14

Bright, bold and hypnotic... Karim Rashid's "Organik" collection of luggage is sure to make travellers stand out. >
Digital art competition

Design News • 10 Jan 14

International stock photo agency, Fotolia launches an international digital art competition as part of their TEN campaign. >
Emerging Creatives Q&A: Thabo Makhetha

Festival News • 10 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

Fashion designer Thabo Makhetha launched her Kobo Ea Bohadi range of blanket coats at Design Indaba Expo 2013 as part of the Emerging Creatives programme. >
Made by Hand: The Bike Maker

FilmFestFriday • 10 Jan 14

#Filmfestfridays presents "Made by Hand: The Bike Maker": an inspirational short film documenting the cancer survival of bicycle maker Ezra Caldwell. >
Pieter-Jan Pieters on using human movement to compose music

Talks • Duration: 00:06:42 • 9 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieter-Jan Pieters makes digital music using his body parts as the instruments. >
Architecture in bloom

Design News • 9 Jan 14

Bjarke Ingels's Watch Flower promenade structure mimics and draws on the natural process of a growing flower. >
Cosmic experiences

Design News • 8 Jan 14

Experiential designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has been appointed as WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences. >
HSM creatives attend the 2013 Design Indaba

Festival News • 8 Jan 14

HSM staff members had the opportunity to experience remarkable individuals, over a host of different design disciplines, who presented at Design Indaba 2013. >
Storysmith

Q&A • 8 Jan 14

Katherine-Mary Pichulik is the creative mind and maker behind Pichulik. Design Indaba chats to her about her journey and telling stories through jewellery. >
Pichulik Spring/Summer 2014 Collection

Lookbook • 8 Jan 14

Pichulik's 2014 Spring/Summer collection celebrates the seaside glamour of the golden age on the French Riviera in the 50s and 60s. >
John Maeda on design thinking and creative leadership

Talks • Duration: 00:38:00 • 7 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

Artist, graphic designer and educator John Maeda talks about the exchange between design thinking and creative leadership at 2013 Design Indaba Conference. >
Marbles of light

Design News • 6 Jan 14

Daan Roosegaarde's eye-catching MARBLES installation will illuminate the 2014 Route du Nord Light exhibition with bright and bold colours. >
Brass vessels

Design News • 6 Jan 14

Tom Dixon takes inspiration from traditional vessels used to carry water for his latest collection of authentic brass pendant lamps. >
Focus On: A-type personalities

Focus On • 6 Jan 14

Meet four typographers who’s work goes beyond just the art and technique of arranging type to make language visible, to conveying cultural messages of its own. >
Vertical garden

Design News • 6 Jan 14

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders creates an interior garden of ceramic flowers with his wall cladding design, Frozen Garden, for Bisazza’s 2014 collection. >
Pick-up sticks

Design News • 5 Jan 14 • Sponsored Content

Japan-based Nendo redesigns an ancient traditional eating utensil, the chopstick, transforming people’s interaction with this everyday object. >
Fun and fantastical

Design News • 4 Jan 14

Spanish designer Jaime Hayón reflects on the past ten years’ worth of work in his retrospective exhibition Funtastico. >

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