November 2008 Archive

  • Travelling on trains with kids
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >
  • Exquisite scales
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design. >
  • Cattle heads ceramics competition
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >
  • Head honcho
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success. >
  • Meta/physical
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Belgian choreographer Frederic Flamand and Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana give life to Ovid's Metamorphosis poems. >
  • Design Indaba film to air
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. >
  • Designer rubbish
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town. >
  • Tees for trees
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. >
  • Witty wallpaper
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness. >
  • Springleap vs Threadless
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless. >
  • Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments. >
  • Paula Scher does China
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >
  • Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design. >
  • Hot foreigners in Jozi
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi. >
  • New fair trade shop in South Africa
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November. >
  • The gospel truth
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >
  • The Art of Possibility Returns
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Benjamin and Rosamund Zander to return for more Art of Possibility on December 1 and 3, after a jam-packed programme across South Africa. >
  • Not quite Discovery Channel
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals. >
  • $100 000 prize for Design Indaba 10x10
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge. >
  • Full moon for eco-fashion
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week. >
  • DIY electronic eco-design?
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change. >
  • City of type
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography. >
  • Waste worthy of art
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
  • Rhode hits London streets
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South African art lovers have long known that Robin Rhode's stop-motion street-inspired art is too cool for school, now he's hit London. >

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