Articles

  • (Death) Bok fever
    Design News • 9 Sep 11
    Show your support for the Boks with a cool T-shirt design by Deathbok. >
  • “We will never forget”
    Opinion • 9 Sep 11
    The 9/11 Memorial Plaza by architect Michael Arad opens in New York on the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. >
  • Keeping track
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    KiBiSi's "Tracks" headphones makes for an easy fit and can be customised to your liking. >
  • Manuscripts (Seats of Poerty) by Paul Cocksedge Studio.
    Seats of poetry
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    The "Manuscripts" (Seats of Poetry) by Paul Cocksedge is an installation that highlights an exchange of words, poetry and knowledge between two cultures. >
  • Creative Week Cape Town
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    Creative Week Cape Town starts today with a choc-a-bloc programme of creatively inspriring events, exhibitions, walking tours and workshops. >
  • Paste street exhibition.
    Paste
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    "Paste" is a community art project that takes creativity out the gallery and onto the streets of Cape Town and Khayelitsha. >
  • Kyneburgh Tower by Tom Price.
    Flowing tower
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    Two public artworks by Tom Price in the Gloucester city centre refer to the invisible histories of the site. >
  • The Special Danger
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    In his first solo exhibition, The Special Danger, Givan Lötz looks to conflated ideas of death, sex and spirituality. >
  • Crystal cathedral at London2011
    Design News • 8 Sep 11
    The "Perspectives" installation in the Geometric Staircase of St Paul's Cathedral in London offers a different view of this architectural masterpiece. >
  • Cartier Time Art by Tokujin Yoshioka.
    Art of time
    Design News • 7 Sep 11
    Cartier Time Art, art directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, celebrates the technological innovation and beauty of Cartier timepieces. >
  • Glitch fiction
    Design News • 7 Sep 11
    Glitch Fiction at Paris Design Week looks at what happens in the space between the everyday and infuences on our extrasensory perception. >
  • Modular Fabrication for UNStudio.
    Modular fabrication
    Design News • 7 Sep 11
    UNStudio’s Modular Fabrication looks to possibilities for composite materials in architecture. >
  • Novelty
    Design News • 6 Sep 11
    Renée Holleman's A Novel in Parts uses her neighbourhood as the departing point for exploring the spaces between. >
  • Space engagement
    Design News • 6 Sep 11
    Textile Field is a large installation by the Bouroullec Brothers that looks to a fresh way of experiencing a museum. >
  • Street lights
    Design News • 6 Sep 11
    sTREEt is a modular system that serves the multiple purpose of being street lights, shade, shelter and public benches, all in one. >
  • Hailee Rask, Harshad Velankara and professor David Mullin at Tulane University.
    Biofuel from newspapers
    Design News • 5 Sep 11
    What if cars could be fuelled by recycled newspapers? Well, perhaps if one adds TU-103, a new bacterial strain. Here's more about a potential new biofuel. >
  • Paul Budnitz Bicycle.
    Urban cycle
    Design News • 5 Sep 11
    Elegant, lightweight and super fast, this bicycle by Paul Budnitz Bicycles is ideal for the urban environment. >
  • AGI Open 2011 Barcelona
    Partnership with AGI Open
    Digital News • 5 Sep 11
    Design Indaba is pleased to announce a media partnership with AGI Open 2011 Barcelona. >
  • Blog: Day 2 of Toffie Food
    Design News • 4 Sep 11
    The second day of the Toffie Food Festival saw Tammy Frazer talk of scent, Wolfgang Koedel of beer and world-famous blogger Julie Powell of butchery. >
  • Blog: Day 1 of Toffie Food
    Design News • 3 Sep 11
    Coffee gastronomy, a food taste tour of Madiba's life and an exploration of the oldest food culture in the world stand out on the first day of the Toffie Food f >
  • Ocean of Shit II by Conrad Botes.
    Temptations
    Design News • 3 Sep 11
    Conrad Botes’s The Temptation to Exist explores and questions the human desire to exist in the world as we know it. >
  • Yarn bBombing in Cape Town by Isabeau Jourbert. Photo: Ed Basson.
    Knitting pretty
    Design News • 2 Sep 11
    Add a dash of colour and creativity to a lamp post, tree or dustbin near. Yarn Bombing is what it's all about. >
  • Dragon Tail Lamp by Luisa Robinson for Design By Hive.
    Dragon spikes
    Design News • 2 Sep 11
    Origami techniques are used to craft oyster paper into gorgeous lamp shades that resemble the tail of a dragon. >
  • Play category winner: Hövding’s invisible airbag for cyclists’ heads.
    Index award winners announced
    Design News • 2 Sep 11
    The winners of the prestigious INDEX: Award 2011 were announced in Copenhagen last night. Take a look. >
  • Escapism
    Design News • 2 Sep 11
    Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's "Escapism" collection pushes the boundaries of fashion and technology with 3D-printed design. >
  • Meltdown chair by Tom Price. Image courtesy Industry Gallery.
    Meltdown
    Design News • 2 Sep 11
    Working in collaboration with materials, Tom Price presents a series of chairs made by melting everyday plastic products and moulding them into a seat. >
  • Soul of Asia
    Design News • 1 Sep 11
    Design Seoul is an intiative, guided by five principles, that has seen design employed to improve the quality of life in this Asian city. >
  • Urban enquiry
    Design News • 1 Sep 11
    Realm... an urban enquiry explores the essence of certain spatial conditions. >
  • Space oddity
    Design News • 1 Sep 11
    Calling all Bowie fans - check out this children's book of the famous 1969 song "Space oddity". >
  • Screaming Foot, 2011. Haroshi.
    Staying alive
    Design News • 31 Aug 11
    MTV RE:DEFINE, a benefit art exhibition and auction, aims to raise funds and awareness for HIV/Aids education and prevention campaigns. >

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