June 2010 Archive

Three little pigs

Design News • 1 Jun 10

Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter. >
Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment

Design News • 1 Jun 10

Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson. >
Egyptian creativity on the design map

Design News • 2 Jun 10

The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design. >
Leather satchels and literacy

Design News • 2 Jun 10

From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion. >
Alternative imaginations

Talks • 2 Jun 10

Design is about love, not money, and believing in the potential of design being something for the whole world. >
Switched on competition

Design News • 2 Jun 10

Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time. >
The future is entertaining

Reviews • 2 Jun 10

Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity. >
Modular graphics

Design News • 2 Jun 10

The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook. >
Li Edelkoort presents a future past

Design News • 2 Jun 10

A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future. >
The final countdown

Design News • 3 Jun 10

With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster. >
No tick, no tock

Design News • 3 Jun 10

The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic. >
Magnetic trailer park attraction

Design News • 4 Jun 10

There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley. >
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire

Talks • Duration: 00:30:22 • 4 Jun 10

For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people. >
AdamsMorioka: what lies beneath

Talks • Duration: 00:43:02 • 4 Jun 10

AdamsMorioka reveal what lies beneath the slick, ultra-cool veneer of designers. >
5.5 Designers on sustaining great design

Talks • Duration: 00:45:13 • 4 Jun 10

5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable. >
Shigeru Uchida on the power of weakness

Talks • Duration: 00:41:14 • 4 Jun 10

Weakness is part of design as much as it is part of human nature. >
Writing on trees

Design News • 7 Jun 10

Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art? >
Young and grey

Design News • 7 Jun 10

Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame. >
Fashionable football fever

Design News • 7 Jun 10

SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories. >
Ineke Hans asks "Where to From Here?"

Talks • Duration: 00:39:33 • 8 Jun 10

Ineke Hans looks at the future of playing and asks, "Where to from here, designers?" >
Milestones and goalposts

Design News • 8 Jun 10

In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives. >
One man band

Design News • 9 Jun 10

Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits. >
John Hunt on original advertising

Talks • Duration: 00:22:17 • 9 Jun 10

John Hunt tries to define "advertising", pointing out that advertising must be original – but not too original. >
Fiction or football

Design News • 10 Jun 10

Flags, vuvuzelas and bright clothing everywhere. It's hard not to be infected by footie fever. Am I Collective's posters add to the joy. >

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