https://www.bizcommunity.com/196/110.html South Africa Design Indaba 2007 news 15 Design Indaba 2007 news - South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/196/110.html en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:47:49 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13515.html Whether remembering the banning of newspapers such as New Nation and South, being detained in Pollsmoor by the security police, drawing up the 1994 election "how to" posters or being served a bouquet of multi-million rand lawsuits by Jacob Zuma, Jonathan Zapiro has graphically embodied the essence of truth, freedom and a good laugh. Well deservedly garnering one of the biggest ovations of the conference, cartoonist Zapiro was the opening speaker on the last day of the 10th Design Indaba, Friday, 23 February 2007. 1-13515 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:46:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa /InBrief/196/110/3992.html 2-3992 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:32:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13494.html Imagine only buying and consuming products which you know are good for you, your family and the environment because you know their history? Imagine a world in which we as humans weren't killing off other eco-systems on our planet in our quest for rampant consumerism? Activist talk or our future reality...? 1-13494 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/157/110/13495.html Having grown up among awful architecture in South London, Cameron Sinclair started the non-profit 'Architects for Humanity' when he was 24 years old. Transitional housing for Kosovo's Returning Refugees, HIV clinics in Lagos Nigeria, which incorporate movie theatres, organic farms and encourage input from communities to ensure the most effective solutions. 1-13495 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:03:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13476.html A standing ovation before the first tea break at Design Indaba yesterday, Thursday, 22 February 2007, for Massimo and Lella Vignelli, New York-based design and life partners, was just one of the highlights of the day. Obsolescence is a social crime, challenges Vignelli, for although there would be no fashion industry without it, design does not need to be trendy. 1-13476 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:34:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13473.html It's official - a condom applicator has just been selected as 'the most beautiful object in South Africa' by Jurgen Bey, a leading Dutch product designer and a speaker at this week's Design Indaba Conference, 21 - 23 February 2007, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ Design, a Cape Town product design consultancy, designed the applicator. 1-13473 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:04:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13477.html Thursday afternoon's programme at the Design Indaba swept us into the heart of contemporary European design. Actually, one can think of few things more delightful than an afternoon in the company of four European designers at the peaks of their powers. 1-13477 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:56:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13475.html The three-way agency pitch, which has become an interesting feature of Design Indaba in recent years, this year focused on concepts for the 2010 Fan Fests - the officially sanctioned areas in our cities where fans will gather in their hundreds of thousands to watch the World Cup Soccer matches. The agencies were Enterprise IG, RSVP King James and Grid. 1-13475 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:22:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/110/13474.html Do you still know how to do the Vulcan hand salute? Remember the beehive hairdos from Captain Kirk's Star Trek odyssey last century? How about the replicator which made you anything you wanted? Well, that might not be as farfetched as we think as Prof Neil Gershenfeld from the USA's MIT explained in his 20 year roadmap for the future at Design Indaba yesterday, Thursday, 22 February 2007. 1-13474 Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:04:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/145/110/13452.html The contingent of design devotees at the milestone 10th Design Indaba which opened at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town yesterday, Wednesday 21 February, is this year encouragingly made up of 56% business decision-makers, with approximately 20% of delegates from destinations as far afield as the Netherlands and Nigeria. 1-13452 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 10:25:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Design Indaba 2007 South Africa