Articles

  • The art of fashion
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate. >
  • Tees for trees
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. >
  • Direct via the Transkei
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets. >
  • Travelling on trains with kids
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >
  • Not quite Discovery Channel
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals. >
  • Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona. >
  • Paula Scher does China
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >
  • And now for the black blob
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky. >
  • Design Indaba film to air
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. >
  • Waste worthy of art
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
  • Shrinking the art world
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound. >
  • The gospel truth
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >
  • But how does nature make you feel?
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely. >
  • Green goes orange
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Architecture of Change is a book about sustainable buildings, and the cover has not a single shade of green. >
  • Design stuffs its face
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Fabrico Próprio: The Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery makes a strong case for the design fame of 90 single-serving cakes. >
  • Tangible brand marks
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market. >
  • Sound/culture smash
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Paul D Miller – aka DJ Spooky – addresses “the remix” in his new book Sound Unbound. >
  • Bhangra
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Bhangra is a musical genre that grew out of the diasporic Indian community in Britain and was popularised through dancehalls. >
  • Waaksaam en Wakker
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Although originally the offspring of Fokofpolisiekar, Van Coke Kartell have grown into themselves with a second album, Waaksaam en Wakker. >
  • No more songs for girls
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Jo’burg indie electro outfit Model C have been described as “a dirty and beautiful eight-bit soundtrack that crawls under your skin”. >
  • By Kelly McCallum
    Bird on a wire
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration. >
  • Springleap vs Threadless
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless. >
  • Four legs good, two legs bad
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others. >
  • Head honcho
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success. >
  • Worldly stuff
    Profiling • 1 Nov 08
    Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha. >
  • DIY electronic eco-design?
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change. >
  • Hulger’s reformation of the CFL was part of the [re]design’s Lighten Up exhibition.
    Hot or cold?
    Opinion • 1 Nov 08
    Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop. >
  • Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
    Do Tank News • 10 Oct 08
    MMA Architects won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-cost Housing project. >
  • Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
    Do Tank News • 10 Oct 08
    MMA Architects have won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Income Housing project. >
  • Design beckons Saffers home
    Digital News • 4 Oct 08
    The Design Indaba stand at the Homecoming Revolution event offered a freshly dynamic take on South Africa to expats living in London. >

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