October 2011 Archive

  • Pieces of mind
    Design News • 20 Oct 11
    Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind. >
  • Means to an end
    Design News • 20 Oct 11
    Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma. >
  • Kleurentaart. Photo: Peggy Janssen.
    Colour with veggies
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    "Kleurentaart" is a cake made with vegetables to explore the possibilities of using food and colour in a variety of ways. >
  • Graphic design now
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >
  • Earth building
    Design News • 19 Oct 11
    A single-storey house in Japan is built with bricks made using the local soil and magnesium oxide. It explores the use of regional building solutions. >
  • Story telling
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time. >
  • Wining and dining
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed. >
  • Floating orchestra
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The gravity-defying Floating Orchestra is a different kind of musical experience with the user in the role of a supernatural conductor. >
  • Knitting with bacteria
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    The Textured Self by Sonja Bäumel uses bacteria to demonstrate how different forms of life work together to make the human body function. >
  • New rules of work
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Moving craft
    Design News • 16 Oct 11
    BarberOsgerby's "Ascent" collection of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London is inspired by the duo's interest in moving craft. >
  • Save the post office
    Design News • 15 Oct 11
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Sensory dining
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Secret Sensory Suppers take the dining experience to a new ritualistic level, exploring the relationship between food, sight, scent and sound. >
  • Bouroullec retrospective
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Bivouac is the first major retrospective of the work of the Bouroullec Brothers at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. >
  • Usuals collection
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Usuals is a range of domestic products by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe that looks to simplicity and functionality. >
  • 10 Years of Hat-trick
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    In Brief is a small book, with lots of pages, celebrating Hat-trick's work of the past 10 years. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >
  • Climate change and performance art
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    GIPCA's Hot Water Festival considers the conversation on climate change that needs to happen between scientists and performing artists. >
  • Birds of a feather
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Diamond magnate Laurence Graff has marked the maturation of the Delaire Graff Estate with an art installation of birds. >
  • Micro-Nutrient Couture by Emily Crane.
    Cultivated couture
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    How about growing high-end fashion in your kitchen? Emily Crane's Micro-Nutrient Couture is exotic and edible. >
  • Green as glass
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Glasshouse is the ideal urban greenhouse, and it doubles up as a functional pendant lamp. >
  • The Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Du Noon township
    Educational integration
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    The Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Du Noon township serves as a beacon of aspiration, highlighting the importance of education. >
  • Safe bike
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >
  • Infographic wine label
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    The labels for the wines of an Australian winery feature an infograph with unique information about the vineyards, vintage conditions and ferments. >

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