From this to this: Design Indaba’s 10×10 project will move 100 township families out of shacks (pic: Yasser Booley) and into well-designed houses like this
Design Indaba, the Cape Town-based creative conference, has brought together ten of the world’s top architects and designers to help tackle South Africa’s housing crisis. The likes of David Adjaye, Thomas Heatherwick, Tom Dixon and Shigeru Ban have each worked with a local partner to design a street of ten homes to be built in the Mitchell’s Plain township. CR was there to see the first house going up

On the left, last year’s preferred design photo style (by Michalt Slawek) looks as though it may have been ousted by a new preference for the bull dog clip
Just over a year ago we posted on the trend for designers to shoot their work as if held up in front of their faces – or at least their friends’ faces. Now, it seems, those familiar fingers are being replaced by the humble bulldog clip as design’s photography style du jour…

The battle for District 8 in Saigon in May 1968 produced many civilian casualties. This woman hit by helicopter rocket fire was helped by a nervous South Vietnamese soldier.
We learned with great sadness over the weekend of the death of the pioneering Magnum photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths (read The Guardian’s obituary here
Jones Griffiths’ searing portraits of the carnage and misery of the Vietnam war helped turn public opinion against military action. Last year we reported on a lecture given by Jones Griffiths in which he drew parallels with the present conflict in Iraq and urged today’s photojournalists to bear witness to what he termed ‘the American Empire on the rampage”. You can read that report in full here