2007 Archive

Design Indaba lines up the beta generation 13 December 2007 Since its first usage in 2004, “Web 2.0” has often been dismissed as a catchphrase. The latest Design Indaba magazine finds it sticks.	Design Indaba 2008: A better world through creativity 30 November 2007 How does one keep milk cold in the desert? Put a roof over people’s heads? Turn a magazine into a mirror? Simple: Creativity.
Karlssonwilker in South Africa: A real design adventure 23 November 2007 Hjalti Karlsson and Jan Wilker are to explore “live” South African design and the ways in which South Africans represent themselves.	Art container 15 November 2007 One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition.
Form follows food 02 November 2007 Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid.	Monument to the now 02 November 2007 The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world.
Africa Remix for design 02 November 2007 The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa opened at the 2007 INDEX...	Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey 02 November 2007 William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour.
Not out of the woods 02 November 2007 Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials.	Volume control 02 November 2007 At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges.
1 000 lights make green work 02 November 2007 Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights.	The plight of healing plants 02 November 2007 Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.
Wire dressed up as lamb 02 November 2007 “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town.	Metal muscle 02 November 2007 Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials.
Porcelain menagerie of memories 02 November 2007 Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.	Coming out in shells 02 November 2007 Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
The public secret of avatars 02 November 2007 Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.	Five-day wooden house 02 November 2007 Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build.
Hillbrow, London 02 November 2007 The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.	Underground at Woolworths 02 November 2007 Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.

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