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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. >
Modern Cultural Curators: Bokja

FilmFestFriday • 3 Jan 14

#FilmFestFridays presents "Modern Cultural Creators: Bokja" – a short film about a Beirut-based company specialising in textiles. >
Emerging Creative Q&A: Woltemade

Design News • 2 Jan 14

The Emerging Creatives programme provides up-and-coming designers with a wonderful launch pad. We chat to Woltemade to find out what they have been up to. >
Focus On: Shaping our spaces and cities

Focus On • 1 Jan 14

Architects design the habitats we dwell in. We feature four thought-provoking talks on approaches to the challenges our times present to the built environment. >
Through the looking glass

Design News • 30 Dec 13

Tokujin Yoshioka's PRISM mirror collection for Glas Italia creates a mysterious presence through its dazzling refraction of light. >
Winning BIG

Design News • 29 Dec 13

Here is a look at Danish architect Bjarke Ingels's winning proposal for the Axel Springer new media campus in Berlin, Germany. >
Focus On: Where virtual and real worlds meet

Focus On • 28 Dec 13

In an ever-increasing digital world, many designers explore the convergence of virtual and physical realities. Here are four who look towards the future. >
Amongst Inspiration – Clíona O’Flaherty

FilmFestFriday • 27 Dec 13

#FilmFestFridays presents "Amongst Inspiration – Clíona O’Flaherty": a short film looking at the inspirations of this Dublin-based photographic talent. >
Emerging Creative catch-up: Lazi Mathebula

Design News • 26 Dec 13

2013 Emerging Creative Lazi Mathebula, aka Greiispaces, is one of 50 international illustrators currently exhibiting at .M Contemporary gallery in Australia. >
Sir John Hegarty on challenging the status quo

Talks • Duration: 00:38:48 • 25 Dec 13 • Sponsored Content

“It’s our job to get out there and fight for great ideas; it’s creative people that will make the change," Sir John Hegarty said at Design Indaba Conference. >
Ho Ho Ho!

Design News • 25 Dec 13

A very merry Christmas from Paula Scher and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. >
Porky Hefer on turning something negative into something positive

Talks • Duration: 00:21:53 • 24 Dec 13 • Sponsored Content

Designer and brand interventionist Porky Hefer’s mission is to encourage people to be inspired to get up and change things. >
Clay play

Q&A • 24 Dec 13

Cape Town-based stylist Alexia Klompje launched Klomp Ceramics earlier this year. She tells us about Klomp Collection II that celebrates the season. >

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