November 2009 Archive

  • Food miles
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • Cereal assemblage
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products. >
  • Grown tables
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Suburban spread
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Social farmwork
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan. >
  • Farm in a box
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
  • Lawn attack
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
  • Soil soul
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet. >
  • The don of design
    Opinion • 1 Nov 09
    Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >
  • Channel O lucky packet
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The new magazine Coco Joe has been conceived as a brand extension for Channel O by Peet Pienaar and design studio The President. >
  • Gay architectural mockumentary
    Reviews • 1 Nov 09
    Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >
  • Transhuman metamorphosis
    Q&A • 1 Nov 09
    Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations. >
  • Crop share actionism
    Profiling • 1 Nov 09
    Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork. >
  • Space explorer
    Q&A • 1 Nov 09
    Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design. >
  • Farm with a view
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms. >
  • Cement garden
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover. >
  • Sky's the limit
    Opinion • 1 Nov 09
    Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming. >
  • Extreme gardening
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Sahara Forest Project proposes to reverse desertification and turn arid regions into resources of food, fresh water and clean energy. >
  • Respect cheap design
    Design News • 2 Nov 09
    Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”. >
  • Emerging Creatives: Earn Your National Design Colours
    Do Tank News • 2 Nov 09
    Young Designers: Kick start your career at Design Indaba Expo 2010! >
  • Tribal pride
    Lookbook • 2 Nov 09
    Photographer Romi Stern and stylist Kim Warrington create new age tribes on a progressive, urban vision of Africa. >
  • Stillife
    Stillife
    Lookbook • 2 Nov 09
    Photographer Ross Garrett and stylist Caroline Olavarrieta evoke an austere vision of the future pastoral. >

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