Dezeen and MINI World Tour: earlier this month we kicked off our Dezeen and MINI World Tour at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town. Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs rounds up the highlights of the week. More »
Tag: South Africa
Dezeen and MINI World Tour
Totemism: Memphis meets Africa
at Design Indaba Expo
Design Indaba 2013: Dutch trend forecaster Li Edelkoort curated an exhibition drawing parallels between the Italian Memphis movement of the 1980s and contemporary South African design at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town earlier this month. More »
Heavy Metal at the
Woodstock Foundry
Design Indaba 2013: South African designers presented a wide range of pieces made from metals at this exhibition in Cape Town during Design Indaba earlier this month (+ slideshow). More »
"Segregation was a design
exercise during Apartheid"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: with Cape Town serving as World Design Capital in 2014, we spoke to programme director Richard Perez about how the title can help the city overcome problems inherited from the Apartheid regime. More »
"This is a village with no facilities
beyond raw security"
"South Africa has always
had an upcycling culture"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in the second part of our tour around Cape Town, Design Indaba founder Ravi Naidoo shows us the former industrial suburb of Woodstock, which the city's design community has recently made its home, and explains the importance of upcycling in South African design. More »
Africa today is a place of "renewal,
regeneration and growth"
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in our first Dezeen and MINI World Tour despatch, Ravi Naidoo takes us on a tour of his home city and explains why he founded the Design Indaba conference that is taking place in Cape Town this week. More »
Truth Coffee by
Haldane Martin
This week Dezeen is in Cape Town so here's a steampunk-inspired coffee shop in the city by South African designer Haldane Martin. More »
Cape Town named World Design
Capital 2014
Dezeen Wire: Cape Town in South Africa has been named World Design Capital 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid). More »
Unknown Union by Rafael de Cárdenas

Designer Rafael de Cárdenas of New York created the interior of this Cape Town menswear store Unknown Union with shelving in clashing colours that fade into each other. More »
Story Vases by Front
Football Training Centre Soweto by RUFproject

Canadian practice RUFproject have completed a football training centre in Soweto, South Africa, with wooden louvres wrapping the upper parts of the structure. More »
Green Point Stadium by GMP Architekten

Here’s another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier stories here and here) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting this week in South Africa. More »
Moses Mabhida Stadium by GMP Architekten

Here's another stadium designed by German studio GMP Architekten (see our earlier story) for the 2010 FIFA World Cup starting next week. More »
Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium by
GMP Architekten

Here's one of three stadiums designed by German studio GMP Architekten for the 2010 FIFA World Cup that begins in South Africa next week. More »

