2008 Archive

  • SVW scholarship and workshop
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days. >
  • And now for the black blob
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky. >
  • 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. >
  • The art of fashion
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate. >
  • SA fashion hits the silver screen
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa. >
  • By Kelly McCallum
    Bird on a wire
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration. >
  • 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 >
  • Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona. >
  • Cops coin it on Sagmeister
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September. >
  • Music fun in a packet
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK. >
  • Shrinking the art world
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound. >
  • 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. >
  • 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. >
  • $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. >
  • 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. >
  • 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. >
  • 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. >

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