2007 Archive

  • Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour. >
  • The plight of healing plants
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life. >
  • Tall tale for kids
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >
  • The first Droog Christmas Dinner by Marije Vogelzang.
    From the stomach to the heart
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    “Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang. >
  • Kill the copy cat
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >
  • Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington. >
  • Zip-Tie Lights by Steven Haulenbeek.
    How many designers does it take to change the light?
    Opinion • 1 Aug 07
    The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >
  • Waste not want not
    Opinion • 1 Aug 07
    Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit. >
  • Carpet bombing
    Opinion • 1 Aug 07
    Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat. >
  • Photo: Fuse Project.
    Sustainable = humanist
    Opinion • 1 Aug 07
    Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing. >
  • Nature V2.01 by Draw Me A Sheep.
    A Kyoto treaty for design
    Opinion • 1 Aug 07
    The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >
  • Fanfest proposal by Grid
    Opinion • 1 May 07
    "If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests. >
  • Brian Eno
    Man about town
    Inside View • 22 Mar 07
    During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis. >
  • Film noir
    Opinion • 1 Feb 07
    The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support. >
  • Big bad Bitterkomix
    Reviews • 1 Feb 07
    Over the last 10 years or so, Bitterkomix has been consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore. >
  • Visions of nature
    Reviews • 1 Feb 07
    The first comprehensive survey of the work of the 19th-century biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel has been published by Prestel Publishing. >