2009 Archive

  • Woven islands
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >
  • Design cul-cha
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    “Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition. >
  • Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
  • Rex shows at the World Bank
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >
  • Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin. >
  • Frame the family tree
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”. >
  • Building bible
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    It was with much anticipation that the updated Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture was received. >
  • Pure not poor
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    “Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa. >
  • SA in graphic prime
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry. >
  • The Interior World of Tom Dixon
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish. >
  • The Art of Romance
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    The Art of Romance takes you on a journey through the cheesy history of Mills & Boons and Harlequin book covers. >
  • Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts. >
  • Doodle for a Difference
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings. >
  • Futures to believe in
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Dion Chang has put together a series of essays on the way the world will be very soon in The 2009 Flux Trend Review. >
  • Not just an album design pioneer
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design. >
  • Citizen of the World
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Internationally celebrated jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça has released his second Moreira Project album, Citizen of the World. >
  • Bellville Rock City
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    The CD/DVD box set Bellville Rock City offers a veritable resource of profiles, music videos, tracks and documentary coverage. >
  • Bruce Mau's book Massive Change.
    The revolution of possibility
    Q&A • 1 Feb 09
    Bruce Mau talks about people connecting across cultures, languages, religions and national boundaries to solve the challenges of the world. >
  • Dear Reader.
    Watt the folk
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Daniel Friedman, whose alter ego is singer-songwriter Deep Fried Man, ventures in search of South African new folk music. >
  • A John Bauer porcelain. Photo by Leah Hawker.
    Made in tjina
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Potter John Bauer is immortalising South Africa’s doily heritage through porcelain and has found happiness in craft. >
  • Dancing pictures
    Q&A • 1 Feb 09
    Nadine Botha talks to the resident kidults of Am I Collective about their new animation project, Disko. >
  • If I Want to Explore a New Direction Professionally, it is Helpful to Try it Out for Myself First, 2007.
    A spoonful of sugar
    Profiling • 1 Feb 09
    Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness. >
  • Craft debate: Justin McGuirk
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Editor of Icon, a Design Indaba media partner, Justin McGuirk weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >
  • Craft debate: Paul Priestman
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Industrial designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Paul Priestman weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >

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