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 about Africa today is a place of "renewal, regeneration and growth"
Design Indaba 2013: architect David Adjaye has been confirmed as one of the speakers at the Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, later this month. More about David Adjaye announced as headline speaker at Design Indaba Conference
Cape Town designer Piers Mansfield-Scaddan of Fly-Pitcher presented these lamps based on the faceted shape of a stove-top coffee pot at Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month. More about The Espresso Lamp by Fly-Pitcher
Design Indaba 09: in the final movie in this series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month, designers including Bruce Mau (above), Barber Osgerby and Frank Tjepkema talk about creativity. More about Design Indaba videos: what can your creativity do?
Design Indaba 09: the ninth video in this series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month features young Paris studio 5.5 designers. More about Design Indaba videos: 5.5 designers
Design Indaba 09: architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer talks about his Spaza-de-move-on project - winner of the inaugural SOUTH award at Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month - in this eighth movie in the series. More about Design Indaba videos: Doung Anwar Jahangeer
Design Indaba 09: young designer Revital Cohen talks about her Life Support project in this seventh movie from Design Indaba conference and expo, which took place in Cape Town last month. More about Design Indaba videos: Revital Cohen
Design Indaba 09: the sixth in our series of videos from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last month features South African designer Haldane Martin. More about Design Indaba videos: Haldane Martin
Design Indaba 09: architect Doung Anwar Jahangeer won the South award for his mobile, fold-away shop at the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last week. More about Spaza-De-Move-On by Doung Anwar Jahangeer
Design Indaba 09: the fifth in this series of movies from the Design Indaba conference and expo, which took place in Cape Town last week, features Japanese artist Nobumichi Tosa of Maywa Denki. More about Design Indaba videos: Nobumichi Tosa
Design Indaba 09: the fourth movie in our series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town last week is an interview with New York designer Stephen Burks of Readymade Projects. More about Design Indaba videos: Stephen Burks
Design Indaba 09: the third in our series of videos from the Design Indaba conference and expo taking place in Cape Town this week features David Boira and Zoë Coombes of New York architecture and design outfit Commonwealth. More about Design Indaba videos: Commonwealth
Design Indaba 09: the second movie in our series from the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town this week is another excerpt from South, a documentary about South African creativity. More about Design Indaba videos: South 2
Design Indaba 09: Cape Town designers Animal Farm are launching a wooden light fitting at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town, South Africa this weekend. More about Lite by Animal Farm
Design Indaba 09: the first in a series of videos published to coincide with the Design Indaba conference and expo in Cape Town this week is an excerpt from South, a documentary about South African creativity. More about Design Indaba videos: South
Design Indaba 08: here's a new set of photos showing progress on the first sand-bag house being built at Freedom Park in Cape Town, South Africa. More about Sand-bag houses by MMA architects 4
Design Indaba 08: South African designer Haldane Martin showed two lamps with ostrich-feather shades at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town last month. More about Fiela Feather Lights by Haldane Martin
Design Indaba 08: a space-saving bed system designed Tsai Design Studio of Cape Town was name Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at the Design Indaba Expo last month. More about Nested Bunk Beds by Tsai Design Studio
Design Indaba 08: IDEO cofounder Bill Moggridge presented this concept tricycle that purifies water as the rider pedals, at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town last month. More about Aquaduct by IDEO
We finally found time to post photos of design folk having fun at the various parties that took place during the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town the week before last. Above: Maxim Velčovský. More about Design Indaba photos