Design Indaba Magazine








	MACRONUTRIENTS While we embarked on this edition of the magazine wanting to look at biology and living systems, we found that going beneath what can be seen with the naked eye, all we found were questions.
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	DESIGN SNIPPETS Luyanda Mpahlwa, Keith Helfet, Cameron Platter, Robin Rhode, Peet Pienaar, Richard Niessen, Javier Mariscal, Stefano Giovannoni, Lunar, Stefan Sagmeister, Carlos Miele, Christoph Niemanm, Juliette Lewis, Paula Scher, Jan Kaplicky, Matali Crasset, James Webb and more.
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	COMPETITION Win one of five Springleap T-shirts.
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	SAVE.THE.DESIGNER.5.5 Paris's 5.5 designers are using humour, production processes and conceptual rigour to question the status of the designer. Anthony Lebossé explains to Design Indaba how 5.5 is undoing the very basis of their profession.
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	POWER ART Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters.
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	SA: THE US OF AFRICA A graphic designer short of a corporate conscience, Garth Walker has created a politically incorrect new exhibition for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale. Gideon Unkeless talks to him about the evolution of iJusi, the not-so-new South Africa and his use of graphic design for social commentary.
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	MACRO Design Indaba invited photographers to reinterpret the macro technique in terms of subject matter and application.
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	SHARING IS CARING Based on a currency of sharing, cyberspace is resurrecting community and equality. Digital scholar and leader of the United Nations University's Open Courseware Project, Philipp Schmidt writes about why money is not the best reason to care.
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	EXQUISITE SCALES New York design studio Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design. Zoë Coombes writes from the uncharted realms of their experimentation.
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	FEAR OF FLYING Thrill engineer Brendan Walker tells Design Indaba about how he uses psychological, biological and narrative elements to highlight the similarities between rollercoasters and planes.
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	BIRD ON A WIRE Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration.
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	FOUR LEGS GOOD, TWO LEGS BAD In a world where some are more equal than others, creative consultancy Animal Farm tells Design Indaba how they're trying to make brands good again.
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	HEAD HONCHO South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success. Design Indaba asks him all about hats.
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	WORLDLY STUFF Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
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	HOT OR COLD Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between knowing that sustainable is cool but instinctually desiring hot pop.
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	SUSS'T: AN ALTERNATIVE TO MALL CULTURE The KZNSA Gallery, in collaboration with Design Indaba, are presenting an exhibition of the best local sustainable design over the festive season. Peter Machen describes the pluralism of conscientious consumers.
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	TEXT.DOC Design Indaba reads Architecture of Change, Nature Inspiration for Art and Design, Fabrico Proprio and Logology
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	MSC.WAV Design Indaba listens to Sound Unbound, Bhangra, Waaksaam en Wakker and No More Songs for Girls
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