Ilse Crawford

Ilse Crawford

Ilse Crawford talks about being human and how to tie in our basic emotions with design.

Ze Frank

Ze Frank

An artist and a humourist, Ze Frank is best acknowledged for his multi-faceted understanding of online experiences.

Oona Scheepers

Oona Scheepers

Learning to see is one of the most important things designers need to learn, says Oona Scheepers.

Latest news

All lined up
The Hungary Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale illustrated how straight lines can be translated into architecture.
Small pin, big heart
Marcel Wanders’s latest project explores the values that matter most in life, like love.
For the sake of inspiration
Inspiration and the creative process are thought to be bedfellows. A new book, Inspired, explores to what extent the two rely on each other.
Females making films
The Women of the Sun Film Festival recognises the contribution African women are making to the continent's emerging film industry.
Fit for royalty
It's time to put your creative and edgy jewellery designs onto paper and submit it for Pravda Vodka's royal collection.
Natural agreement
Ensuring harmony between the existing architecture and the natural landscape is Shigeru Ban’s key objective with a new design in Aspen.
Lofty aims
The design of a new loft in downtown Manhattan explores the interaction between gallery and living space.
Time and evolution
A collection of furniture by a Korean designer considers aspects of time, evolution and surrealism.

Conference

Design Indaba magazine outsources to India
Bollywood, cricket, curry and the Kama Sutra. These are probably the clichés most people associate with India. We challenge the stereotype.
Design Indaba Superstars installed at CTICC
Design Indaba is proud to announce that the winning entries of the Superstars team have been immortalised as public artworks.
Design Indaba magazine gets lusty
“It’s an ad joke. If you want to sell something without trying too hard just add sex, puppies or children.” Get the new Design Indaba mag.

Expo

DI2011: Film call for entry
Step up to the silver screen... at Design Indaba Expo 2011. Submission deadline: 31 October 2010.
Design Indaba Superstars installed at CTICC
Design Indaba is proud to announce that the winning entries of the Superstars team have been immortalised as public artworks.
Bookings open for Design Indaba Expo 2011
Designers can secure their place on the 2011 Design Indaba Expo floor at a discounted Early Bird rate by booking before 31 July 2010.

Magazines

Q101: The Launch Issue
The first issue of Design Indaba magazine became the first African magazine to win a Folio for Best Design for New Magazine award.
Q207: Fanfest 2010
A retrospective of Design Indaba 2007, complete with three South African agencies' visions of the 2010 Fanfest celebrations.
Q402
Design is often invisible. Looking towards the upcoming Design Indaba 2003, this edition of the magazine makes the invisible visible.
Q401
In this edition, the magazine challenges assumptions in the human brain, the design industry and society.
Q306: Spaceship Earth
This issue of Design Indaba magazine aims to present the green movement as more than a handy theme for publishing, rather as a way of life.

Articles

Foam for thought
Food is more than simply feeding oneself. Michelle Matthews uncovers the design secrets of culinary genius Ferran Adrià.
Accidental designer
Jennifer Fair interviews jewellery designer, style leader and taste maker Solange Azagury-Partridge.
Online innovation
Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies.
Save the designer 5.5
Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession.
Design bros
Karim Rashid interviews Hani Rashid exclusively for Design Indaba magazine.

20Questions

20Q: Nkhensani Nkosi
She's one of South Africa's favourite design success stories. Nkhensani Nkosi is also dynamic and very passionate about this country.
20Q: Nontsikelelo Vekelo
She's still looking for a creative muse but she's fared exceptionally well without one. Photographer Lolo Veleko is just starting.
20Q: Ze Frank
Design can't save the world so instead he chooses to obsess about cooking potatoes correctly. And other little-known things about Ze Frank.
20Q: Tiffany Marx
Tiffany Marx believes that designers need to be true to themselves and work with passion and energy. It has certainly worked for her.
20Q: Eve Collett
Inspired by a variety of daily events, spiritual experiences and nature, Eve Collett's creativity manifests in gorgeous furniture designs.