October 2014 Archive

The playful portraitist

African Report • 31 Oct 14

Patterns clash and cultures collide in Moroccan photographer Hassan Hajjaj's striking portraits. >
Architecture and Water (Part 2): Gentrification machine?

FilmFestFriday • 31 Oct 14

The second of a three-part documentary series explores the gentrification along the Thames driven by desirable riverside living. >
Take Five

Take Five • 31 Oct 14

Take five minutes to catch up with designindaba.com's top five stories this week. >
"The World's Pain" by Black Vulcanite

Track of the Week • 30 Oct 14

Track of the Week describes the difficulties of a life dedicated to music in insightful rhymes with back-up from an immaculate jazz sample. >
Studio Propolis: The labourers of love

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:03:53 • 30 Oct 14

Inside the Nairobi-based workshop of Naeem Biviji and Bethan Rayner, a husband-and-wife team who make all their own designs by hand. >
SEA ME by Nienke Hoogvliet

Product Spotlight • 30 Oct 14

This Dutch designer trades traditional textiles for yarn made from sea algae woven into a luxurious rug. >
City hacks for #makechange

Lookbook • 29 Oct 14

Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far. >
Internet inspiration: Threat or enabler?

Hot Topic • 29 Oct 14

Lazy man's library or a window onto the world? Four South African creatives tell us whether the internet stymies or aids their creative process. >
Lauren Beukes on fiction as an incredible kind of telepathy

Talks • Duration: 00:38:52 • 29 Oct 14

South African author Lauren Beukes brings a singular storytelling experience to the Design Indaba Conference stage. >
Shining a light on workers’ safety

Design Frontiers • 28 Oct 14

The new Halo Light is a multi-task light that ensures construction workers are visible from 600 metres away. >
Design Indaba — from event to institution

Festival News • 28 Oct 14

Design Indaba is at an interesting stage of its development as it develops from an event to a design institution, with activities through-out the year. >
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument

Lookbook • 28 Oct 14

As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits. >
Inside Kenya's iHub

Video Interviews • 28 Oct 14

The iHub is the heart centre of Kenya's tech revolution. We took its pulse on this tour inside. >
Nesting instinct

Profiling • 27 Oct 14

Porky Hefer is expanding his interest in sustainable design by building a house. Just don't ask him for elevation plans. >
SEVEN THIRTY Films: Capturing Kenyan perspectives in film

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:23 • 27 Oct 14

The sister duo behind this filmmaking studio tells us about the opportunities and challenges of being creative in Kenya. >
It takes more than one

Focus On • 26 Oct 14

Many designers have shifted the perception that good design is born from the spark of brilliance from the lone genius to one of collaborative creativity. >
First Smart Highway goes live

Design News • 25 Oct 14

Daan Roosegaarde’s much-anticipated Smart Highway has been built on a stretch of the R329 in Oss, the Netherlands. >
Architecture and Water (Part 1): A River Runs Through It

FilmFestFriday • 24 Oct 14

The first of a three-part documentary series asserts that water management is as much a political issue as it is an urban planning one. >
Island style

Lookbook • 24 Oct 14

The bespoke furniture collection that put Fogo Island on the map is now available globally. >
Take Five

Take Five • 24 Oct 14

A global call to design out Ebola drew readers' attention this week. >
Emerging Creatives: 5 reasons to apply

Festival News • 23 Oct 14

Five rising stars from the Emerging Creatives programme at Design Indaba Expo 2014 tell us what the exposure did for their careers. >
Gavin Elder: A backstage pass

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:05:59 • 23 Oct 14

South African filmmaker Gavin Elder talks about his lucky break filming Duran Duran, working with artists and what he learnt from David Lynch. >
Lauren Beukes on confronting the monsters around us (trailer)

Trailers • 23 Oct 14

The award-winning sci-fi writer shows how South Africa's dark past transforms into her fiction in this unusual presentation at Design Indaba Conference. >
Reaping the benefits of Design Indaba initiatives

Festival News • 23 Oct 14

Entrepreneurial expo exhibitors create direct and indirect jobs and income from business orders and sales to the public adds to GDP. >

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