Editorial And so another Design Indaba & Expo has ended, with a rousing grand finale at Vergelegen Wine Estate. And we are still on the treadmill, planning activities next month, like our Design Indaba Workshop for students ( Ken Cato, the world-renowned Australian graphic designer and Design Indaba 3 alumnus, will conduct a workshop at Durban Institute of Technology). Full Story >> Design News At Salone Mobile in Milan recently, Design Indaba alumnus and creative director of Edra, Massimo Morrozi, launched a quirky project entitled, "Baghdad"- by the Israeli Ezri Tarazi, a lecturer in design at the Bezalel academy, together with the Campana Brothers offering, called "Brasilia". Full Story >> Celebs give generously at DESIGN INDABA Charity Banquet The first Design Indaba Charity Banquet, which opened this year's conference, drew a glamorous gathering of high-profile government, business and media representatives and raised more than R128 000 for design education. Full Story >> SOUTH AFRICA: where black and white melted into brown! Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself. The taxi driver, the society matron, the bookstore clerk, each resorted to euphemism when they spoke of the space between 'Now and Then': "…the ten years since democracy." Full Story >> DESIGN IS EASY People who are able to achieve a lot without compromising their vision. The late designer Tibor Kalman (of M&Co and Colors Magazine) was such a person. When I studied and worked in Milan, I was lucky to meet and get to know great masters of the New Italian Design: Ettore Sottsass, Alessandro Mendini, Andrea Branzi. Full Story >> The optimist on the designer optimized A summer party at London's Design Museum last year attracted the great and the good of British product design like few events before it. The occasion? The 20th anniversary of celebrated design group Seymour Powell whose founders, Richard Seymour and Dick Powell.. Full Story >> The Photographic Cartoonist Her photographs make fun of the rich and famous. Aside from controversial window displays in Selfridges, she's exhibited at New York's International Center of Photography and won numerous awards for her Schweppes campaigns. Full Story >> Between the covers with Chip Kidd. While record sleeve designers occupy a lofty position in graphic design's pantheon, their contemporaries in book publishing rarely receive the celebrity treatment. While the former boast such stars as Peter Saville, The Designers Republic and Stefan Sagmeister.. Full Story >> LABOUR OF LOVE Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember. It helped, of course, that his father ran a printing company and that the family lived next door. As a five year-old, he would sneak into the factory and nag his father to run out some stickers for him. "I just found printing really magical," he says. Full Story >> Broad Appeal and Design Indaba With a record 1 946 delegates coming to Cape Town to hear 55 compelling speakers from around the world, the Design Indaba has cemented its status as the premier creative event in the southern hemisphere. This year, for the first time... Full Story >> NOTES FROM THE FASHION INDABA Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in deep crisis. The strong Rand has made our exports less competitive, while cheap imports, especially from China, continue to flood the market locally. Full Story >> A South Africa Identity The morning session started with an alarmingly frank opener by sponsor, BarloWorld CEO Tony Phillips, who spoke about the crisis of leadership in the architectural profession, the lack of physical icons in South Africa, and that South Africa needs "simple, clever interventions that have a big effect on the national consciousness". Bravo to that. Full Story >> OUR CROWN JEWELS Facilitating the Inaugural Jewellery Indaba was a great privilege. I met very inspiring people both amongst speakers and delegates and got to chair pertinent discussions about this very important industry in South Africa. The Jewellery Indaba provided a platform to explore the question... Full Story >> Driven by Design With a record breaking 35% more entries this year into the competition, it seems fitting that the Construction New Media Awards' association to the Design Indaba has allowed Design to become its quintessential criteria. Full Story >> Speaker Bytes Patrick Burgoyne in a recent feature in London-based magazine, Creative Review, called the Design Indaba the "best design conference to speak at." In polling the stellar cast of 55 designers that presented at the 8th Design Indaba, it would seem that they concur - unanimously. Full Story >> ©2001. All rights strictly reserved. Design Indaba® Magazine is a wholly owned initiative of the Interactive Africa (PTY) Ltd. Reliance on the information this site contains is at your own risk. Please Click here for user agreement.