2011 Archive

  • Mix'n'match prostheses
    Design News • 10 Jan 11
    Bespoke Innovations is adding much-needed creative flair to prosthetic limbs. >
  • Huck magazine, in collaboration with David Carson.
    Cover creative
    Design News • 10 Jan 11
    Magazines Huck and Little White Lies have been given the David Carson treatment. >
  • Ants ate all my sugar by Kate MacDowell.
    Natural connection
    Design News • 11 Jan 11
    Kate MacDowell’s porcelain sculptures are both intriguing and disturbing. Her work explores the interaction between humans and nature. >
  • Design Indaba Expo – more of the best in 2011
    Festival News • 11 Jan 11
    Gear up for a new decade of local design distinction, starting at the Design Indaba Expo from 25 to 27 February 2011. >
  • Golden future
    Design News • 12 Jan 11
    The winning design of PG Bison’s 1.sixoneeight Student Design Competition and Awards is inspired by an armadillo. >
  • Axor bathroom design by Patricia Urquiola.
    Bathing beauty
    Design News • 12 Jan 11
    Patricia Urquiola’s bathroom range for Axor brings a touch of poetry and playfulness to the collection. >
  • Crazy public stunts at DI2011
    Festival News • 12 Jan 11
    Charlie Todd uses creativity to cause chaos and joy in public places. Join the founder of Improv Everywhere in Cape Town this February. >
  • Christophe Egret
    Talks • Duration: 00:52:59 • 12 Jan 11
    Christophe Egret talks about creating communities and generosity in architecture. >
  • Paperback bookshelf by Studio Parade.
    Books, sideways
    Design News • 13 Jan 11
    A shelf that displays horizontally makes it much easier to read the spine. See Studio Parade’s good idea. >
  • Lego letterpress by Physical Fiction.
    Loving the lego
    Design News • 13 Jan 11
    There appears to be no end to the number of creative applications for Lego. Here it's used in a letterpress. >
  • Nicolas San Juan apartment building by studio Taller 13.
    Tree house
    Design News • 14 Jan 11
    What looks like a giant tree house in the middle of a city is a very sustainable apartment block in Mexico. >
  • The Fortune Tee by Fredrik Staurland.
    Fortunate tee
    Design News • 14 Jan 11
    Fortune Cookies are fun. Now imagine a giant one with a cool, wearable gift inside. >
  • Making meaning at DI2011
    Festival News • 14 Jan 11
    Dror Benshetrit employs the transformative power of design to intersect manifold meanings into a single object. >
  • Losanges rug by Bouroullec Brothers.
    13 in one
    Design News • 15 Jan 11
    The Bouroullec Brothers’s latest collection of rugs interestingly blends rusticity and fineness. >
  • Photo: Femke Reijerman
    Beautiful and useful
    Design News • 15 Jan 11
    Architectural Acoustics and Legwear are two funky but functional projects by Niek Pulles. >
  • The Heart Machine by Martin Smith, Laikingland.
    Mechanical heart
    Design News • 16 Jan 11
    Wear your heart on your sleeve, or have it beating on your bedside table... >
  • Bridle Road Residence, Cape Town.
    Soft integration
    Design News • 16 Jan 11
    Bridle Road Residence in Cape Town has a lightness and classic elegance about it, while being sustainable. >
  • Crafters go to market
    Design News • 17 Jan 11
    Local crafters are proving that commercial success is possible for organisations with a social focus. >
  • Prize for Puma Pico
    Design News • 17 Jan 11
    Biomega's Puma Pico bicycle was recently awarded the European Consumers Choice 2011 award. >
  • Data design at DI2011
    Festival News • 17 Jan 11
    Ben Fry takes complex data and visualises it in an aesthetically pleasing and easily understandable way. >
  • Bamboo bar
    Design News • 17 Jan 11
    A bar made of bamboo in Vietnam not only uses low cost materials but also looks like a great place to have a drink. >
  • Pleasure centre
    Design News • 18 Jan 11
    The new nhow in Berlin is more than a hotel, it's also a data-driven art and design space by Karim Rashid. >
  • Paper + thread
    Design News • 19 Jan 11
    Peter Crawley’s interesting illustrations are made using watercolour paper, stitched with cotton thread. >
  • Beauty and buck at DI2011 Expo
    Festival News • 19 Jan 11
    The 2010 Design Indaba contributed R232-million to the GDP and generated R27-million in media value. What will the 2011 event hold? >

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