2009 Archive

  • Design benefit
    Design News • 2 Sep 09
    Designed by DJ Stout, the 39th edition of the Pentagram Papers features signs from the homeless. >
  • Mingo Lamberti extends deadline
    Design News • 2 Sep 09
    7 September 2009 is the new deadline to submit entries for Mingo Lamberti's seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. >
  • Batswana flavoured hotel
    Design News • 6 Sep 09
    Rising out of Mafikeng, the capital of the North West Province, is the recently refurbished Peermont resort – the Mmabatho Palms Hotel. >
  • Afro hipster
    Design News • 7 Sep 09
    Alexander Derrick’s American and Mauritanian roots shape the thinking behind his Zulu Rose fashion brand. >
  • State of Our Environment competition
    Design News • 7 Sep 09
    Someone messing with your environment and you don’t know who to tell? Tell ACT about it in the State of Our Environment competition. >
  • New territory
    Design News • 8 Sep 09
    Salon91 presented No Strange Land, a group show featuring five emerging creatives working across music, fine art, illustration and fashion. >
  • Garden variety
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    Reconquestea by Flavia Lucantoni is a special package of green guerrilla tea. >
  • Spy vs spy
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    The growing worldwide guerilla gardening subculture comprises people secretly meeting at night to illegally garden. >
  • Mother nature
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    IncuBra by Adam Fiannaca and Cynthia Verspaget is a wearable incubator. >
  • Countertop farming
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen. >
  • Jungle Beat goodies at Woolworths
    Design News • 27 Oct 09
    The South African Jungle Beat kids’ animation is poised to become a household name in South Africa. >
  • Doodle for a difference
    Design News • 27 Oct 09
    In its third year now, the Night of 1000 Drawings has expanded to be hosted in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam and Dubai. >
  • Milton Glaser keeps it moving
    Design News • 29 Oct 09
    New York’s SVA Theatre has been redesigned by world-renowned designer Milton Glaser. >
  • Less can be better
    Design News • 29 Oct 09
    Lisbon-based design, architecture and creativity biennale, ExperimentaDesign, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. >
  • Baring it all
    Design News • 30 Oct 09
    South African design studio Amicollective collaborated with emerging local designers and illustrators in Project Bare. >
  • Fashion mystery house
    Design News • 30 Oct 09
    ghd Revelations celebrates the craft of South Africa’s leading hair stylists alongside avant-garde local fashion. >
  • Straight outta SA
    Design News • 31 Oct 09
    Craig Wessels directs the beautiful robotic music video for European pop-rock sensation Tokio Hotel’s Automatic. >
  • Communal pods
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Eco-pod proposes to stimulate the economy and ecology of downtown Boston through the installation of a temporary vertical algae... >
  • Functional food
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Pharmland is a proposal by Nord Architects to redirect 20% of Denmark’s agricultural land to grow medicine instead of food. >
  • Victimless meat
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Marije Vogelzang’s Faked Meat started as a reaction to meat substitutes. >
  • Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen.
    Singing in the rain
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink. >
  • 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. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >
  • Mushrooms on the run
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Agata Jaworska’s In Transit proposes growing mushrooms in the packaging while they are being transported. >

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