2012 Archive

  • New looks for favourite brands
    Design News • 15 Mar 12
    Here's a look at the winning designs in the Design Indaba/ Foodcorp Design Challenge 2011. >
  • Entracte.
    In review
    Design News • 15 Mar 12
    The Review exhibition in Johannesburg uses art to explore social and electronic networks in the urban African terrain. >
  • Walk the talk
    Design News • 15 Mar 12
    Put on your walking shoes and get ready to take part in Violet's Walk, one of the winning initiatives in the Your Street Cape Town Challenge. >
  • All's fair
    Design News • 15 Mar 12
    Haldane Martin has launched his first-ever retail showroom in Woodstock, Cape Town. >
  • From all angles
    Design News • 19 Mar 12
    It's all tennis with Hat-trick's latest poster competition for the annual tennis championships at Wimbledon. >
  • Almost textiles
    Design News • 20 Mar 12
    Textile Sketch is a range of furniture made in solid heavy metals, but that looks like it's been crafted from textile forms and shapes. >
  • Straight system
    Design News • 20 Mar 12
    Strates is a modular desk and storage system designed by Mathieu Lehanneur, inspired by sedimentary rocks. >
  • Adhesive exhibit
    Design News • 23 Mar 12
    Curved, fury and red, the Tuft Pula installation is made of adhesive tape and makes you feel like you're in a spider's web. >
  • Top architects to lead expansion of CTICC
    Design News • 23 Mar 12
    Trio of top SA architects, Piet Bakker, Anya van der Merwe and Mokena Makeka, have been awarded the contract to design the expansion of the convention centre. >
  • Out the box
    Design News • 27 Mar 12
    Thinking outside the cardboard box, Xanita highlighted the creative possibilities of their fibre board at Design Indaba Expo and Conference. >
  • Connecting angles
    Design News • 29 Mar 12
    Ineke Hans's "Swing - Wing" collection of chairs and desks are based on a simple concept of connecting various angles. >
  • Carry it
    Design News • 2 Apr 12
    "Dror for Tumi" is a new range of exclusive luggage, designed by Dror Benshetrit, that easily transforms to suit the needs of the modern traveller. >
  • Comfort up above
    Design News • 3 Apr 12
    PearsonLloyd designed the new business class seat and cabin for German airline Lufthansa, focussing on both comfort and elegance. >
  • Lacquered Paper-Objects. Photo: Hiroshi Iwasaki.
    Made of paper
    Design News • 3 Apr 12
    Material magic: Nendo's "Lacquered Paper-Objects" are made by combining layers of paper, using 3D printing techniques. >
  • The Real Cookbook. Photo: Himmel & Burwick.
    Read, then eat
    Design News • 4 Apr 12
    The Real Cookbook is a recipe book that is literally good enough to eat. >
  • Future school
    Design News • 5 Apr 12
    LAVA's "Classroom of the Future" aims to redefine the look, feel and function of prefabricated learning spaces. >
  • BM Horse Chair by Satyendra Pakhalé
    Satyendra Pakhalé: The making of the BM Horse Chair
    Design News • 9 Apr 12
    Through its seamless geometric design, Satyendra Pakhalé's B.M. Horse Chair has poetic analogy of the equine form. >
  • Collage chair
    Design News • 10 Apr 12
    Swedish designers Front successfully combined classic furniture forms with a contemporary aesthetic in their new “Collage” collection. >
  • Suzaan Heyns: SA Fashion Week 2012 opening video
    Suzaan Heyns: SA Fashion Week 2012 opening video
    Design News • 10 Apr 12
    Suzaan Heyns' 2012 Spring/Summer Collection launched an unusual partnership with PPC (Pretoria Portland Cement). >
  • Spontaneous storage
    Design News • 11 Apr 12
    The Bouroullec Brothers present a new sophisticated storage system, "Corniches", for Vitra at the Milan Design Week. >
  • Abstract City by Christoph Niemann. Published by Abrams Books.
    Abstraction
    Design News • 11 Apr 12
    A collection of visual delight! Posts from Christoph Niemann's "Abstract City" blog is now available in book form, plus exclusive new work. >
  • Francis Kéré wins Gold Holcim Award
    Design News • 12 Apr 12
    Using low-tech means to achieve high-tech results... Francis Kéré's climatically adaptable design for a school in Burkina Faso earned him the Gold Holcim Award. >
  • Nendo's art direction debut
    Design News • 13 Apr 12
    Nendo make their art direction debut with the "Black & Black" collection for Singapore furniture brand K% at the Milan Furniture Fair. >
  • New school
    Design News • 14 Apr 12
    Konstantin Grcic's Pro chair was originally intended for educational environments but it works equally well in homes and offices. See it at Milan Design Week. >

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