Design Indaba 07

Stars to design housing for shack-dwellers

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Design Indaba update: international architects and designers including Thomas Heatherwick, Will Alsop, Shigeru Ban and David Adjaye are to design low-cost housing for families living in the shack districts (above) surrounding Cape Town, South Africa. More »

Condom device wins Most Beautiful award

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Design Indaba update: a condom applicator designed to help AIDS prevention has been named the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa by Dutch designer Jurgen Bey. More »

Heath Nash at Design Indaba

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Cape Town designer Heath Nash has given us images from his presentation at last week’s Design Indaba conference, showing a range of lights and other products made from salvaged plastic. More »

Starting today: dezeen at Design Indaba

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dezeenflash: dezeen is in Cape Town all this week for the 10th Design Indaba conference. Starting later today, we will be bringing you regular updates on the conference, the speakers and the parties.

We are just off now to put our flip-flops on for this afternoon’s beach party, which will be attended by Jasper Morrison, Neville Brody, Jaime Hayon, Simon Waterfall, Daljit Singh and many others…

Keep an eye on the Design Indaba 07 category in dezeen’s sidebar for more updates.