Interviews

Nobumichi Tosa's bright peace world

Video Interviews > Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design / Product Design

Nobumichi Tosa's quirky and inspired, youthful perspective is made manifest in his limitless innovations – his "nonsense machines". >

6 Mar 09
Stephen Burks: Connecting design to people

Video Interviews > Craft / Product Design

Stephen Burks discusses his recent work with African artisans and craftsmen – addressing issues of collaboration and distribution. >

6 Mar 09
Commonwealth at DI2009

Video Interviews > Architecture & Interiors / Industrial Design

Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies elegant design, through engagement with both newest of tools and the oldest technologies. >

6 Mar 09
Fabulous fantasia

Q&A > Product Design

Marcel Wanders has designed more than a lifetime’s worth of knotted chairs – he’s designed himself. >

2 Feb 09
The revolution of possibility

Q&A > Design Thinking

Bruce Mau talks about people connecting across cultures, languages, religions and national boundaries to solve the challenges of the world. >

1 Feb 09
Dancing pictures

Q&A > Film & Animation

Nadine Botha talks to the resident kidults of Am I Collective about their new animation project, Disko. >

1 Feb 09
A spoonful of sugar

Profiling > Graphic Design & Illustration

Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness. >

1 Feb 09
Fear of flying

Q&A > Interaction Design

Thrill engineer Brendan Walker talks about the psychological, biological and narrative elements that feed kicks. >

1 Nov 08
Worldly stuff

Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design

Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha. >

1 Nov 08
Save the designer 5.5

Q&A > Product Design

Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession. >

1 Nov 08
Conversations on a Toronto afternoon

Q&A > Architecture & Interiors

Architect Len Abelman sets off to meet expats Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg, two South Africans shaping the Toronto cityscape. >

1 Aug 08
Side profile

Profiling > Design Thinking

Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >

1 Aug 08
True to type

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Young designers in Kosovo are building a new visual order. Peet Pienaar speaks to typographer and information designer Yll Rugova. >

1 Aug 08
Diminutive disaster

Q&A > Product Design

Constantin Boym talks about what the 20th century taught him about the power of the miniature and memory. >

1 Aug 08
Seamstory

Profiling > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Amanda Laird Cherry talks about how the fabric of society has changed through her past few collections. >

1 May 08
Meet the hof'

Q&A > Art & Photography

Photographer Paul Hofman is the only man to ever burn a Design Indaba masthead and get away with it. >

1 Feb 08
Locomotion, manipulation, conversation

Q&A > Interaction Design

Father of interaction design, Bill Moggridge talks about creating the technology landscape of the future. >

1 Feb 08
Maximum velocity

Q&A > Product Design

When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique. >

1 Nov 07
1+1 makes 3

Profiling > Product Design

Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration. >

1 Nov 07
Electric avenue

Q&A > Urban & Landscape Design

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla. >

1 Aug 07
X SÊ Factor

Q&A > Urban & Landscape Design

South African-born auto designer Keith Helfet has produced iconic designs for Jaguar Cars. >

1 Feb 07
My lights manifesto

Profiling > Design Thinking / Product Design

Named as the 2006 Elle Decoration South Africa Designer of the Year, Heath Nash excels at making treasures from trash. >

1 Aug 06
Why brand a nation?

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Thebe Ikalafeng gets the inside track from the globe's leading nation branding specialists, Simon Anholt and Wally Olins. >

1 May 06
From the archives: Head for humour

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Christoph Niemann's pictures paint a thousand witty words. In this interview, we profile the illustrator's more serious side. >

1 Feb 06

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