2011 Archive

  • Illustrative interactions
    Design News • 18 Dec 11
    The wise old owl is given a quirky makeover by Melissa Maloney in her illustrations. >
  • Close ties
    Design News • 17 Dec 11
    Keeping it simple: The Almohadilla Chair is consists of nothing more than six wooden planes and cable ties. >
  • Collection of Light. Photo: Tim Meier.
    Illuminated versions
    Design News • 17 Dec 11
    Humans Since 1982's "Collection of Light" is an LED lamp that resembles an illuminated drawer for keeping insects. >
  • Tough as nails
    Design News • 16 Dec 11
    Sharp sharp: The Nail Cloud is an interior lamp made with magnets and nails. >
  • Everybody smile
    Design News • 16 Dec 11
    Smile! The "face" atop the lighthouse is watching you. >
  • Cultural pioneering
    Design News • 16 Dec 11
    The Pan-African publication Chimurenga was awarded the Prince Claus Award for cultural pioneering earlier this week. >
  • Urban acupuncture
    Profiling • 15 Dec 11
    Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work. >
  • 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. >
  • Strijdom van der Merwe at Design Indabar
    Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11
    Land artist Strijdom van der Merwe shows how creativity can help to draw attention to and facilitate understanding of issues around climate change. >
  • Assaf Biderman at Design Indabar
    Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11
    Networked technology and connectivity is changing the way we move around cities, says Assaf Biderman. >
  • Andrew Makin at Design Indabar
    Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11
    Andrew Makin spoke at Design Indabar in Durban about climate change. >
  • 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. >
  • Piet Hein Eek
    Specialised generalist
    Profiling • 13 Dec 11
    With a form follows materials approach, Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek creates distinctive designer furniture from scraps of wood. >
  • 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. >

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