Articles

  • SOUTH is the new north
    Do Tank News • 1 Feb 09
    SOUTH is an inversion of hand-me-down Eurocentric creativity, a world map turned upside down conceptually, so that South Africa is on top. >
  • Design Indaba launches product range
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Spawned by a passion to create quality design at affordable costs, Design Indaba launches its Free Range at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Head start on 2010 fever
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Michael Souter is adding to the 2010 fever with his “makarabas” (sculpted hard hats) that fuse urban culture, design and sporting passion. >
  • Dead bull
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Designer and Google creative director, Ji Lee’s illustration for Portfolio magazine sums up the economic times. >
  • Winners turn the table
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table. >
  • Dog tag for dating
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Ever sat at work and wondered what your pooch is up to? Put your idle thoughts to rest with SNIF, developed by Readymade in Pretoria. >
  • Horse saddle redesigned after 200 years
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries. >
  • 10x10 finalist for Brit Insurance design
    Do Tank News • 1 Feb 09
    What do 5.5’s Clean, IDEO’s Aqueduct Concept Bicycle, Kenya Hara’s Designing Design book and the 10x10 Project all have in common? >
  • Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever. >
  • Red and blue reconcile online
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”. >
  • Top SA industrial design
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008. >
  • Dreaming in kid-colour
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design. >
  • Cool beer city
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema. >
  • USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite
    Bracelets with megabyte
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage. >
  • The blue house
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs. >
  • Eight ball bling
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls. >
  • Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September. >
  • Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >
  • Harsh geometry for plants
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >
  • All hail Gazelle!
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >
  • Final year clearance sale
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner. >
  • Woven islands
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >
  • Design cul-cha
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    “Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition. >
  • Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
  • Rex shows at the World Bank
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >
  • Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin. >
  • Frame the family tree
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”. >
  • Building bible
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    It was with much anticipation that the updated Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture was received. >
  • Pure not poor
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    “Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa. >
  • SA in graphic prime
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry. >

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