2007 Archive

  • Fresh talent
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Taswald Pillay, from the University of Johannesburg, has scooped the prestigious PG Bison Interior Design Student of the Year Award. >
  • Mechanical magic
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition. >
  • Put your best foot forward
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker? >
  • Creative nation
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem. >
  • Afro Guchi
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Vlisco’s transformation into a leading fashion house is partly the result of competition from cheap Chinese imports. >
  • Geografias ingenuas
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary. >
  • A Taste For Type
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research. >
  • The Ultimate Guide to Local Design out now
    Design News • 20 Mar 07
    The Ultimate Guide to Local Design brings together South Africa's best designs and designers who exhibited at the Design Indaba Expo 2007. >
  • Super normal
    Design News • 1 May 07
    Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >
  • Online innovation
    Design News • 1 May 07
    Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies. >
  • Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG
    Design News • 1 May 07
    Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever. >
  • Fanfest by King James RSVP
    Design News • 1 May 07
    King James RSVP proposes that our local taxis and taxi drivers become the hosts and ambassadors to the tourists. >
  • The brief: Fan your passion 2010
    Design News • 1 May 07
    South Africa will host one of the world's greatest sporting events in only three years time - the 2010 FIFA World Cup. >
  • 10 Houses = 10 Families
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector >
  • Inkuku chair by Ryan Frank.
    Flotsam and jetsam
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture. >
  • New old solutions
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >
  • Gold Loerie for Design Indaba
    Gold Loerie for Design Indaba
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Interactive Africa clinched 10 Loerie awards at the ceremony held in Margate from July 28 to 29. >
  • Buying green back
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental. >
  • Crafting a difference
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >
  • ‘You can’t bomb an idea’
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >
  • Shoe-wow!
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >
  • Tsai times two
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >
  • MCQP is FAB
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >
  • The bobo movement
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >

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