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“Cream on Chrome” by Steve Scott and Will Sweeney
A vintage-inspired sci-fi animation for “Cream on Chrome”, NYC duo Ratatat’s first song in five years. This slightly psychedelic animated music video by London-based director Steve Scott and animator...
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Take Five
Our top story featured Nigerian graphic designer Karo Akpokiere, who didn’t know about the Venice Biennale until his work was selected for an exhibition there. Sponsored ContentPosted 23 May 15By...
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Deanne Viljoen: Playing with furniture
The owner of De Steyl tells us about the furniture design studio's shift to creating modular furniture that invites the user to intertact with it.Deánne Viljoen is an architect who fell in love with...
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Marian Bantjes: Why I judge and why I don't enter design awards
In the first of 3 blog posts Marian Bantjes, famous for creating typography in sugar, gives us the inside scoop on design competitions.Sponsored ContentPosted 25 May 15By Marian BantjesDesign Thinking•...
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Ido Garini’s adventures into the art of eating
Chef and industrial designer Ido Garini wants you to eat make-up and consider what you look like eating a strawberry.1234"Bellboy Dining Concept", commissioned by a private client in Tel Aviv,...
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Marian Bantjes: Inside design awards
In the second of three blog posts, Canadian designer Marian Bantjes talks about the process of judging a design competition. Sponsored ContentPosted 26 May 15By Design IndabaDesign Thinking• Graphic...
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The Making of the #FabulousDressProject
Fashion designer Celeste Arendse and blogger Aisha Baker show us how they stained and washed and wore the perfect white dress using Skip's micro-technology.Can one white dress keep looking and feeling...
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#DITakeover on Instagram: Jens Martin Skibsted
Inside the world of (and some sneak peeks from) Danish designer and co-founder of both KiBiSi and Biomega, Jens Martin Skibsted. Sponsored ContentPosted 26 May 15By Design IndabaDesign Thinking•...
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#MakeChange: Honest-to-goodness products by KIN Culture
A group of South African designers have created a range of products whose sale supports KIN Culture's mission to establish an alternative model of orphan care.Sponsored ContentPosted 26 May 15By Tracey...
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Tips for entering design awards
In the last of three blog posts, Marian Bantjes gives us her tips on entering design competitons. 12Marian Bantjes gives us her tips on entering design competitions. Marian Bantjes gives us her tips on...
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William Kentridge in Amsterdam, Venice, Zurich and Beijing
Five current and upcoming presentations by William Kentridge, including “More Sweetly Play the Dance”, a 45-metre-long frieze exhibited in Amsterdam.Sponsored ContentPosted 27 May 15By Design...
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Rainbow window art brightens up Buitenkant Street
Andrzej Urbanski and Pierre Le Riche illuminate a Cape Town storefront with a tapestry of colour.Sponsored ContentPosted 27 May 15By Kate WalkerArt & PhotographyCreative Work /...
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Tri-light standing lamp by Dark Horse
Cape Town studio Dark Horse launches a minimal lamp with their signature angular aesthetic.Sponsored ContentPosted 28 May 15By Khumo SebamboAfrica Is Now• Product DesignCreative Work / Product...
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“The Lord is My Shepherd” by Brenda Fassie
An upbeat testament to the life and energy of the late great Brenda Fassie, the township's own Madonna.Sponsored ContentPosted 28 May 15By Jon MonsoonAfrica Is Now• Music & Sound DesignCreative...
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Creative Collab ignites the Durban creative community
KwaZulu-Natal Society of Arts and Imagination Factory present Creative Collab Durban 2015, powered by Design Indaba.Sponsored ContentPosted 28 May 15By Design IndabaCreative Economy• Design...
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Wangechi Mutu launches Africa's Out!
Artist Wangechi Mutu rallies the art world to speak out against Africa's persecution of sexual minorities at the launch of her new creative campaign.123The Africa’s Out! butterfly symbolises the...
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14 Artists speaking out against homophobia in Africa
Our selection from the more than 40 works by world-renowned artists that go on show in New York for the launch of Africa's Out!.Collage artist Wangechi Mutu has rallied the art world in New York City,...
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William Kentridge’s "Lulu" debuts at the Dutch National Opera
The South African artist brings a foreboding theatrical vision to Alan Berg’s famous liberetto piece. Sponsored ContentPosted 28 May 15By Kate WalkerAfrica Is Now• Art & Photography• Music &...
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Tracing the intersecting lines of African food
Tuleka Prah tells us why the representation of African food needs a makeover, and how she plans on doing it.Sponsored ContentPosted 29 May 15By Kim SeeligerAfrica Is Now• Food DesignPoint of View /...
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"Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier" by Alan Warburton
Alan Warburton gives classical music a digital twist in this 3D-animated interpretation of Bach’s “The Well Tempered Clavier”.The Well-Tempered Clavier by Baroque composer Bach is a combination of two...
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