December 2011 Archive

  • Cultural pioneering
    Design News • 16 Dec 11
    The Pan-African publication Chimurenga was awarded the Prince Claus Award for cultural pioneering earlier this week. >
  • Displaced fragments
    Design News • 15 Dec 11
    Olivia de Gouveia's "Apocalyptopia" project considers the consequences of present displacement in a fictional future. >
  • Festive flavours
    Design News • 15 Dec 11
    Music, food, design and craft retail, experience it all at Freeworld's Designer-Make Artisan Market. Great place to get your Christmas shopping done. >
  • Love and mystery
    Design News • 14 Dec 11
    Mister Handsome is Jason Wishnow's short film about love, imagination and some of the dark sides of human nature. >
  • Intelligent craft
    Design News • 14 Dec 11
    Haptic Intelligentia is a system that makes provision for traditional craftsmanship in the age of digital technology and 3D printing. >
  • Sheets of colour
    Design News • 14 Dec 11
    Artist Tyree Callahan's Chromatic Typewriter "types" paintings, with the machine's keys as different colours. >
  • Quirky cauliflower
    Design News • 13 Dec 11
    Meet Doris. She's a great-tasting, long-lasting cauliflower. Then also meet her siblings: Doug, Shirl and Bob. >
  • Fuse by Wim Botha.
    Talking about love
    Design News • 13 Dec 11
    What we talk about when we talk about love is a group exhibition exploring different notions of love and the relationship we have with ourselves. >
  • Pacific Place. Photo: Iwan Baan.
    Place specific
    Design News • 12 Dec 11
    Thomas Heatherwick renovated a luxury shopping and entertainment complex in Hong Kong to give it a more contemporary look and feel. >
  • Urban origami
    Design News • 12 Dec 11
    Spanish street artist Nuria Mora creates large and colourful origami pieces for urban spaces. >
  • Crystal containers
    Design News • 11 Dec 11
    With "Containers II" Studio Job transformed old crystal vessels into a coffee pot, a waste basket and a saucepan. >
  • Widest love
    Design News • 11 Dec 11
    For every artwork in the If You Let Yourself Love a Wild Thing Exhibition at Salon91 in Cape Town, a tree will be planted. >
  • Copper classic
    Design News • 10 Dec 11
    The Madison Street Model bicycle is inspired by the vintage bikes of the 1930s. >
  • Individual mass
    Design News • 10 Dec 11
    Klaas Kuiken's "Bottles" use the archetypal green glass bottle to ask if there are any irregularities in mass production. >
  • 25 + 25
    Design News • 8 Dec 11
    Nendo's solo exhibition at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, presents 25 objects and 25 spaces selected from more than 200 projects of the past ten years. >
  • Decoding digital
    Design News • 8 Dec 11
    The Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition at the Design Museum Holon looks at digital influences on visual art. >
  • Transient truths
    Design News • 8 Dec 11
    Kyra van Ineveld's The Wiki Truth project reveals that the truth can be a fickle thing, especially in the age of crowd sourcing. >
  • Photo: Alexander Tamargo.
    Beginnings
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    David Adjaye’s “Genesis” pavilion at Design Miami created an integrated space for meditation and community. >
  • Little letterpress
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    Ishac Bertran's little letterpress is an ode to his love for typography and analogue processes. >
  • Lucky types
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    The Cape Town-based LuckyFella clothing label produces limited-edition T-shirts that allow typography to exist in the real world. >
  • Info overload
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    "Save As" is an interactive platform for translating online experiences into tangible objects, looking at how social media influences collective memory. >
  • Endless strings
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    Dirk van der Kooij has extended his Endless range of furniture to a saloon table and rocking chair. They're still made with recycled plastic from fridges. >
  • End folds
    Design News • 7 Dec 11
    The 2Fold bookends by Fabricate bring an interesting visual element to a functional object. >
  • The reach
    Design News • 5 Dec 11
    MJ Turpin's latest multimedia show explores rites of passage, sacrifice, race and religion. >

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