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Editorial
We have spent the last few months talking about an idea called the Creative Coalition. At its heart, the Creative Coalition is about a call to the creative fraternity in South Africa to collaborate more. And to organise itself into a united front. Into a significant lobby machine and a major lever for growth of the economy...
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DESIGNERS FORUM Q&A
Delve into your favourite designers' minds and find out what makes their creative juices flow. The most thought provoking questions and answers will be considered for publication in the next issue of Design Indaba magazine. Submit your questions to magazine@designindaba.com...
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DESIGNEWS
There's nothing strange about the step-out outfits that were worn by the South African Olympic team at this year's games - except maybe the name of the fusion fashion house that created them. The Strangelove duo of Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater and...
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Ambiguity & Truth
"Make it clear." This fundamental assumption of communication would seem to be an attainable goal. Objectify the audience, understand their desires-appeal to their interests, eliminate the extraneous and presto "effective communication."
Well, maybe not...
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Design BROS
Karim Rashid interviews Hani Rashid exclusively for Design Indaba magazine
I have never really interviewed you but we have on numerous occasions discussed design, art, architecture, and cultural issues on many levels over the years. One question that I am always asked and I am curious of your answer is, "How did you pass the stage from a young...
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Fertile Arad
By Tom Roope
This interview has been a great excuse to hook up with Ron Arad again. Though I have been a regular visitor to Ron's studio in Chalk Farm, due to working with him on several projects over the last few years, I have not been over to see him and his team for many months...
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Mzantsi* (Mzantsi means south in isiZulu)
BY CRAIG JACOBS
Paging through the list of designers participating in this year's Cape Town Fashion Week, it becomes clear that, like tastes that shift from bittersweet to dry or Avant garde to minimalist over time, the country's largest fashion platform has ebbed and...
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Contradiction
the challenge to design
by Jonathan Ford - Pearlfisher Creative Partner
"The great struggle in life is not between good and evil… but the desire for certainty and the desire for freedom. Freedom and certainty cannot equally co-exist. The more you have of one, the less you have of the other." 'Even Cowgirls Get the Blues', Tim Robbins...
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Design Indaba Workshop Series
Paula Scher
I went to South Africa to run a week-long workshop which encouraged students to develop a visual language. The assignment required the attendees to create or define a business or organisation (or use an existing one) that they would then name, design an identity for and extend that identity to include all forms of media...
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