• Bhangra
    Bhangra is a musical genre that grew out of the diasporic Indian community in Britain and was popularised through dancehalls. >
  • By Kelly McCallum
    Bird on a wire
    Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration. >
  • By Brendan Walker
    Fear of flying
    Thrill engineer Brendan Walker talks about the psychological, biological and narrative elements that feed kicks. >
  • Sinking into beauty
    Design Indaba alumnus Ilse Crawford, tasked with designing the Aesop shop pairs modern interventions with endearing revival. >
  • Princesses have backsides too
    Inspired by the princess and pea story, Doshi Levien's Principessa daybed consists of many thin mattress layers. >
  • Nothing is lost
    Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece. >
  • Ziggy prop
    Ryan Frank's ZiG is a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo. >
  • Inn harness
    Ilse Crawford has cast her enchanting touch across the English inn, using country materials such as rush matting, tweed and pewter. >
  • Digital is not the answer
    During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
  • Metal muscle
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • ‘You can’t bomb an idea’
    The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >
  • Online innovation
    Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies. >
  • Super normal
    Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >
  • Brian Eno
    Man about town
    During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis. >
  • The art of looking sideways
    Design Indaba magazine pays tribute to graphic design guru Alan Fletcher. >
  • Rural renewal
    One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design. >
  • High Priestman
    Paul Priestman's divine designs include super trains, gigantic aeroplanes and even a humble kitchen knife block. >
  • David Adjaye 2006
    Design Indaba Classic: David Adjaye, Starchitect
    Renowned architect David Adjaye was named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2017. >
  • De-colonising design
    What would the design landscape of Africa look like if colonialism had never happened? Carl Harrison asks the tricky, pertinent question… >
  • David the Goliath
    A "starchitect" with an artistic vision, David Adjaye's London-based studio is winning some of the world's most prestigious commissions. >
  • The photographic cartoonist
    Sean O’Toole chats with the acclaimed photographer and contemporary satirist, Alison Jackson. >
  • The optimist on the designer optimised
    Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design. >

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