2008 Archive

Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot. >

The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic. >

Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces. >

Visit the Design Indaba stand at the Cape Town Book Fair from 14 to 17 June, 2008. >

Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp. >

Design Indaba reads Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister. >

The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4. >

Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >

Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >

Young designers in Kosovo are building a new visual order. Peet Pienaar speaks to typographer and information designer Yll Rugova. >

Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene. >