Lifting the status of South African design
- 24 Feb 2012 00:00 - Staff Reporter
- Does Design Indaba hold any weight as an international benchmark for locally made design?
Shifting shapes
- 24 Feb 2012 00:00 - Kelly Berman
- Baskets with polo necks, slouchy vessels, giant sea-anemone pouffes -- what is up with craft at this year's expo?
Shaping cities
- 24 Feb 2012 00:00 - Nadine Botha
- A new film explores citizen-driven design and lessons to be learned from the West's mistakes.
Design Indaba: Oh the places you'll go!
- 27 Feb 2011 09:10 - Mandy Allen
- I'd like to suggest to founder Ravi Naidoo that it might be time for a name change from Design Indaba.
Day one: Design, it seems, is where the heart is
- 24 Feb 2011 13:22 - Mandy Allen
- Exciting themes on day one of the Indaba included designs that make a difference in people's lives and learning to speak local architectural language.
Day Two, Design Indaba – Make more, consume less
- 26 Feb 2010 18:47 - Amanda Whitehouse
- If Day one's theme was social awareness and philanthropic design, Day two was about the return to creation.
The new gold: Creativity
- 25 Feb 2010 17:13 - Ravi Naidoo
- Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo outlines the recent achievements in South African design.
Votes, graffiti, plates & dreams – Design Indaba, Day one: Afternoon
- 25 Feb 2010 10:17 - Amanda Whitehouse
- The afternoon's speakers were mostly entertaining and surprising.
Fashion sandwich
- 24 Feb 2010 15:04 - Staff Reporter
- Exhibitor profile: Craig Native
Organic and digital
- 24 Feb 2010 15:01 - Staff Reporter
- Exhibitor profile: Nomili
Old to new, gold to green
- 24 Feb 2010 14:59 - Staff Reporter
- Exhibitor profile: Bousquet Creations
From industrial to household
- 24 Feb 2010 14:56 - Staff Reporter
- Exhibitor profile: snapp design
Design Indaba: The first morning
- 24 Feb 2010 12:32 - Amanda Whitehouse
- Day one of the Design Indaba Conference has had a strong social theme so far, with all the speakers touching on aspects of community in their talks.
Here and there
- 24 Feb 2010 12:29 - Richard Hart
- Designer, Richard Hart writes about his curation of Them-and-Us , a poster project that brings together African and European visual artists.
Exhibitor: Sway
- 24 Feb 2010 12:10 - Robyn Sassen
- Run your eye along a rack of Sway clothing and you will see florals boasting witty discursions and matchsticks dancing with apparent haphazardness.
Exhibitor: Phumani Papers
- 24 Feb 2010 11:38 - Staff Reporter
- The pragmatic perception of hand-made papers is that they're artsy and have no function in the real world.
Design made easy
- 19 Feb 2010 06:00 - Nadine Botha
- Filmmaker Gary Hustwit's documentary about everyday things we take for granted shows at this year's Design Indaba Film Festival.
South moves up top
- 24 Feb 2009 06:00 - Nadine Botha
- This year's Design Indaba will try to define the South African aesthetic. Nadine Botha asks what that means and how it can be achieved.
Rooms to improve
- 29 Feb 2008 19:04 - Luyanda Mpahlwa
- Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa describes the process of creating and realising new housing solutions on Mitchells Plain.
Slideshow | What is beauty?
- 23 Feb 2012 17:52
- The Design Indaba has unveiled the 10 finalists in the Design Indaba Expo's 2012 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA) award.
