2010 Archive

  • Mix n Blend
    Look Mom, No Hands
    Reviews • 1 Feb 10
    True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album. >
  • The craft factory
    Opinion • 9 Feb 10
    Leonard Shapiro explains South Africa’s craft enterprises are reaching self-sufficiency and hankering for the next level: Industrialisation. >
  • 1.05 4.40 3.30 2.05 3.40
    Opinion • 9 Feb 10
    The World Cup is a golden opportunity for South Africa to show off so Marine Leblond goes beyond the budgets of our new stadiums. >
  • Hope 2.0
    Opinion • 9 Feb 10
    The FIFA 20 Centres for 2010 exemplify how world sustainability can be underwritten by Africa’s bountiful endurance. >
  • Fever pitch
    Opinion • 9 Feb 10
    When it seems that one man's life has been divinely designed to create the logo for Africa's biggest even, can we call it only destiny? >
  • 20:10 recall
    Opinion • 9 Feb 10
    As the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 looms on the horizon, Comedian Louw Venter takes a look at how South Africa will remember "the world". >
  • Str.smarts
    Inside View • 9 Feb 10
    Wooster Collective founders Marc and Sara Schiller discuss the coming-of-age of street art and its significance to the cities it populates. >
  • Photos by Neil Stemmet.
    Wall wide open
    Opinion • 10 Feb 10
    In the north-west of SA, a wall is being built, an open-ended celebration of the skills and artistry of the people, writes Neil Stemmet. >
  • David Krut Publishing
    TAXI-014 Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmankgato Helen Sebidi
    Reviews • 10 Feb 10
    Playing a key role in South African arts education, the 14th Taxi art book celebrates Helen Sebedi's contribution to art during apartheid. >
  • Penguin Books
    English knows no bounds
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of the English language, a plunge into the world of words and a dip into a decidedly interesting lexis. >
  • Conran Octopus
    Design: Intelligence Made Visible
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    Design heavyweights Terence Conran and Stephen Bayley come together to beautifully package and present this 300-page design encyclopaedia. >
  • 10x10/3
    Inevitable architectural change
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    An up-to-the-minute commentary on contemporary architecture examining the changing innovations by the world's leading architects. >
  • Zebra Press
    The power of ideas is in everyone
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    Ideas are slippery things, but by personifying them with moods and reason, you control your ideas and how they can shape your life. >
  • The Blackheart Gang
    The Tale of How
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    An absolutely beautifully illustrated book celebrating the success of the award-winning Blackheart Gang's animation. >
  • Laugh It Off
    The joke’s on you
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    The fourth Laugh It Off Annual is out and proving that it's possible to find humour just about anywhere if you're looking hard enough. >
  • Phaidon
    Ai Weiwei
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    An exploration of 21st-century multidisciplinary creative mastermind, Ai Weiwei, his outsize public persona and outspoken world views. >
  • Quivertree Publications
    Hot Afro
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    Photographer Craig Fraser slips into the homes of some of South Africa's creative individuals to find distinctly South African interiors. >
  • Best Art Vinyl Award
    Vinyl still a design showcase
    Reviews • 12 Feb 10
    Showcasing a diverse mix of art and design, it was Muse's The Resistance album that took first place in the 2009 Best Art Vinyl Awards. >
  • American Apparel.
    Money shot
    Opinion • 1 May 10
    Kathryn White explores the supposedly sexually aware advertising industry, exposing more than a few ironies. >
  • Odidiva in Brompton Cross advert.
    President love dress
    Opinion • 1 May 10
    Odidiva, star of House of Holy Afro and the new face of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, explains the power of wearing a dress. >
  • Photo by Gary van Wyk.
    Ordinary peeps
    Inside View • 1 May 10
    Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus likes to think that behind each face he passes daily, is a web of sexual deviation and anarchy. >
  • The Synthetic Kingdom by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
    To form and multiply
    Inside View • 1 May 10
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg asks what traditional design can bring to synthetic biology. >
  • Terence Conran's "Storage: Get Organized", published by Conran Octopus
    If you can't chuck it, store it… neatly
    Reviews • 19 May 10
    In his book "Storage: Get Organized", published by Conran Octopus, Terence Conran shows you how to systemically manage your things. >
  • The walls tell stories
    Reviews • 25 May 10
    Johannesburg Transition, subtitled “Architecture and Society from 1950”, by Clive M Chipkin is a brilliant biography of Jozi. >

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