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Net comfort

Design News • 26 Jan 12

Get the strawberries and cream, it's time to get comfy in the Tie-break chair, made with tennis netting. >
Last Chance for Social Entrepreneurs to Pitch to Win R200k ($25 000)

Do Tank News • 26 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

“COMMON Pitch: South Africa” sees the "Party to Fix the World" come to Cape Town, and submissions are rolling in to meet the 29 January 2012 deadline. >
Your Street Challenge now in KZN

Do Tank News • 26 Jan 12

How would you use R50 000 and lots of creativity to transform an urban experience on the streets of KwaZulu-Natal? >
Digital library

Design News • 25 Jan 12

The Digital Library in Sao Paulo, Brazil, combines high-tech with analogue to create a comfortable look and feel for a family home. >
Forces of gravity

Design News • 25 Jan 12

The Gravity Stool uses the natural forces of gravity and magnetism in the production process. >
Easy does it

Design News • 24 Jan 12

Vitality Line is a new range of products, designed by Yves Béhar, aimed at making medication management products look less sterile and cheap. >
Emerging Creatives: Set to earn their national design colours

Festival News • 23 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba is proud to present the Emerging Creatives for Design Indaba Expo 2012. >
Final feasts

Lookbook • 23 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Melanie Dunea was curious about the last meal the world's top chefs would want to have. She documented it in a collection of visual delight. >
Profiles in plastic

Design News • 23 Jan 12

The Trade Union project uses a starch-based plastic to create biodegradable vessels that explore the correlation between industrial processes and craft. >
Questioning the question

Inside View • 23 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

As the director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design, Clive van Heerden is working to bring designers into the process of technological development. >
Fibra: Design as a tool to change perspectives

Talks • Duration: 00:16:49 • 19 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

Fibra are using design as a tool to change perceptions and ultimately change the world. >
For the love of paper

Design News • 19 Jan 12

Yulia Brodskaya's love of paper inspires her to transform the material into elaborate 3-D artworks that shed a new light on the possibilities of paper craft. >
Wonderbag: Cooking for cleaner air

Design News • 17 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

Innovation firm Frog teamed up with SA company Wonderbag to create a mobile app that can track energy and CO2 savings gained from using their heat-retention bag >
Order to print

Design News • 17 Jan 12

Silicone, chocolate, cheese and concrete are just some of the materials the Imagine 3D printer can use to print shapes. >
Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic Biology

Video Interviews • 17 Jan 12

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores how synthetic biology and design can be utilised to do useful things, engineering a better future. >
Patched works

Design News • 17 Jan 12

Dutch designers Herso's range of "patchwork" furniture is made with reclaimed wood, non-toxic glue and all their by-products are recycled. >
Take home the best of SA creativity at Design Indaba Expo 2012

Festival News • 16 Jan 12

The countdown has begun! Expect the best of South African design and creativity at Design Indaba Expo from 2 to 4 March 2012. >
Barcelona Rock: Bringing the mountain to the city

Design News • 15 Jan 12

Barcelona Rock is a proposed new landmark on the Spanish city's skyline made from the rock of Montserrat. If you can't bring Mohammed to the mountain... >
Varied objects

Design News • 14 Jan 12

From "weak furniture" to new molten glass forms and transformed agricultural nets, Nendo presents a range of new designs at Maison et Objet. >
Ode to plastic

Design News • 13 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

FormaFantasma's "Botanica" project pays homage to works of art and design produced with plastic, while also commenting on the need for plastic alternatives. >
Dive! trailer

FilmFestFriday • 13 Jan 12

Living off America's waste. >
Why Designer John Bielenberg Thinks Wrong

Profiling • 12 Jan 12 • Sponsored Content

John Bielenberg thinks wrong. And he's changing the world, one design project at a time. Design Indaba chats to this mastermind about his creative progeny. >
Quick print

Design News • 12 Jan 12

Black boxes are known to know everything. This BlackBox is a portable device for printing text messages from your phone, so you'll remember everything! >
Hanging balance

Design News • 11 Jan 12

This see-saw table is more than a fun place to eat your dinners. It's also designed to encourage good table etiquette. >

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