The next edition of our talks programme, icon minds, has an African theme. Here’s what’s on the schedule.

One of South Africa’s most prominent young architects tells us about taking on the built and social legacy of apartheid. From icon’s Africa issue, out now.

To celebrate Ligne Roset’s 150th birthday and the launch of its new-look contract website, Ligne Roset is giving away a limited-edition Pumpkin chair to one lucky iconeye reader. Register now to win.

Icon 084, which is in shops now, is the Africa issue. We devote the bulk of the June issue to architecture and design from this vast, fascinating and neglected continent.

Ostrich eggshells adorn a new collection of jewellery by Bushmen of the Kalahari desert.

Yves Béhar’s Fuseproject had designed glasses for the Mexican charity See Better To Learn Better. It will help a whole generation of children to get better grades in school.

After a year of public brawls between co-founders Gijs Bakker and Renny Ramakers leading to Bakker’s resignation, we can’t say we were expecting much from Dutch conceptual design company Droog – but it came up trumps.

The German designer has turned his successful Houdini chair into a whole collection.

We are looking forward to Clerkenwell Design Festival at the end of the month, but before then we have to make it to the Shanghai World Expo and ICFF in New York. A very busy month indeed.

A stool and a kayak-shaped bench were the best pieces in Cappellini’s collection this year.

This year Design Miami decided to commission site-specific installations for its exhibition in the Spazio Fendi.

Moustache presented a collection of charming new products, but in the wrong place.

A collection of flowery tables and chairs, a revolving chandelier and a super minimal task light are all part of Moooi’s new collection, displayed in their new Zona Tortona showroom in Milan.

"The paint was still drying," explains Petter Skogstad of his last-minute touches to his new collection of furniture a day before cramming the pieces into a van to go to Milan, where he showed his latest works at Salone Satellite two weeks ago.

The collected works of Herbert Muschamp, the last heavyweight architecture critic, is exhilarating.

The British furniture brand that made its name by working with some very big-name designers launched a collection of anonymous products at the Milan furniture fair.

During the Milan furniture fair last week, the city was covered in posters saying “The newest Maarten Baas for only 99c”. It turned out the Dutch designer's latest launch was an iPhone app.

Some more of our must-sees during the Milan Furniture Fair, which opens in Milan tomorrow.

It’s all "me me me" at the Guggenheim, as the museum asks artists and architects how they might fill the emptiness in its heart. Mimi Zeiger takes a look.

Chairless will be one of the talking points of Milan: it's a chair with none of the attributes the word implies. Designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena for Vitra, this non-chair must be the most affordable launch the furniture fair has seen for a while - it costs €20.