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Seats for seeing

Design News • 17 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

Nendo's Mimicry Chairs bring a new kind of "funky" to museum seating. Take a look at what they did for the V&A in London. >
Casual form

Design News • 17 Sep 12

Karim Rashid's new Juga chair is the ideal fit for the human form, and speaks to the needs of the contemporary, "casual" age. >
Through the lens of Satyendra Pakhalé

Inside View • 17 Sep 12

Imaginative, insightful and culturally diverse, designindaba.com will be publishing a monthly contribution by award-winning designer Satyendra Pakhalé. >
Y Tsai on how to use design to make a social impact

Talks • Duration: 00:18:47 • 14 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

Y Tsai uses his past and current projects to demonstrate how designers can make a dent in the universe by means of social improvement. >
Bjarke Ingels: Users are the experts in architecture

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:00 • 14 Sep 12

For Bjarke Ingels users are the experts when it comes to understanding how to design a building for a specific function. >
Bjarke Ingels on the expanded role of the architect

Talks • Duration: 00:41:22 • 13 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

For Bjarke Ingels, architects are more than just designers of beautiful facades. He considers the expanded role of architects in contemporary society. >
Streetwise Design

Do Tank News • 13 Sep 12

The Your Street Challenge aims to bring design back into underprivileged communities through form and function. >
Opening windows to a "designer" career

Do Tank News • 13 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba’s advocacy programmes promoting the creative industries have propped up the local industry. >
Space orchestra

Design News • 13 Sep 12

A world first, the International Space Orchestra lifts off tonight in California - an experimental project created and directed by Nelly Ben Hayoun! >
Squirrel feet

Design News • 13 Sep 12

Funky, feminine... and inspired by squirrels! Take a look at Tord Boontje and Tracey Neuls' new collection of footwear. >
Bright bulb

Design News • 13 Sep 12

The movie universe and Edison's classic incandescent light bulb serves as the inspiration for KiBiSi's new Bulb Fiction light. >
Daisy do

Design News • 12 Sep 12

"Sitting pretty" is just one of the things you'll be doing with Ronel Jordaan's new Daisy Stool, made of 100% Merino wool. >
Bird house

Design News • 12 Sep 12

Nendo's new tree house, the Bird Apartment, can house both birds and people, making it the ideal way for the latter to reconnect with nature. >
Amplify

Design News • 11 Sep 12

Amplify, Yves Béhar's installation for the Digital Crystal exhibition in London, speaks to accessibility and sustainability of crystal lights. >
20x12

Design News • 10 Sep 12

Karim Rashid's "20 x 12" demonstrates how new technology can create new opportunities. >
Lifestyle sleeper

Design News • 10 Sep 12

KiBiSi's new "Roulade" sofa sees the classic Chesterfield couch meeting a cosy new mattress. >
Product spotlight: Colour Africa Proverbs

Product Spotlight • 10 Sep 12

Colour Africa Proverbs is a colouring book that depicts traditional African proverbs in a fun way. >
20Q: Christine Goudie

Q&A • 10 Sep 12

Medical product designer Christine Goudie feels there is something incredibly peaceful about crisp, cold winter days when the world seems a little more silent. >
Thought Cloud

Design News • 8 Sep 12

Maarten Baas's "Thought Cloud" uses crystal clouds to symbolise hope for remembering in the digital age. >
Heinrich Wolff: Architecture can make the world a better place

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:45 • 7 Sep 12

For Heinrich Wolff the role of architecture involves developing an agenda for social change. >
Let's talk about fat

Design News • 7 Sep 12

Thought-provoking jewellery designer Christoph Zellweger explores the excess consumption of today's society. >
Heinrich Wolff on architecture as a force of social change

Talks • Duration: 00:32:55 • 6 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

Heinrich Wolff considers post-apartheid architecture in South Africa and the new role of the architect. >
United Visual Artists on designing for emotional response

Talks • Duration: 00:35:37 • 6 Sep 12 • Sponsored Content

Inspired by the relationship between technology and nature, United Visual Artists design for an emotional response. >
Air + Port

Design News • 6 Sep 12

BIG Architects conceptualises an integrated transport superhighway for Greenland, as the country takes its place on the global economic map. >

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