November 2008 Archive

  • Nampak packaging design challenge
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge >
  • 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. >
  • Draw and draw again
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg. >
  • 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. >
  • 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. >
  • X-rated peace and diversity
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists. >
  • 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. >
  • The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >
  • $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. >
  • By Brendan Walker
    Fear of flying
    Q&A • 1 Nov 08
    Thrill engineer Brendan Walker talks about the psychological, biological and narrative elements that feed kicks. >
  • 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. >
  • Sharing is caring
    Opinion • 1 Nov 08
    Based on a currency of sharing, cyberspace is resurrecting community and equality writes digital scholar Philipp Schmidt. >
  • Power art
    Lookbook • 1 Nov 08
    Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters. >
  • Jabu Ndlovu: Self-portrait. By Garth Walker.
    SA: The US of Africa
    Lookbook • 1 Nov 08
    Durban-based graphic designer Garth Walker has created a politically incorrect new exhibition for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale. >
  • Defects of Deco, 2005. By 5.5 designers.
    Save the designer 5.5
    Q&A • 1 Nov 08
    Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession. >

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