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  • Thinking about food
    Design News > Food Design
    This year, the annual food and wine conference at Spier Wine Farm looks at eating insects, sustainable suppers and how music effects your tastebuds. >
    15 Oct 15
  • MBOISA.
    2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa
    Product Spotlight > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Film & Animation / Product Design
    The complete list of finalists for the 2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is revealed. Who will get your vote? >
    29 Jan 14
  • Conflict Kitchen’s cultural director and chef Robert Sayre
    Robert Sayre: Food as a way to foster inter-country discourse
    Video Interviews > Food Design
    Conflict Kitchen’s cultural director and chef talks about using ethnic food as “bait” to get people to learn about the country where that food is from. >
    15 Nov 13
  • Spier Secret Festival 2013.
    Secret festival
    Lookbook > Food Design
    The 2013 Spier Secret Festival was a huge success. Here's an inside look at what the two-day celebration offered visitors. >
    13 Nov 13
  • Anne and Louis Conradie’s take-aways – buy lekker toebroodjies (1999). Photo: Dave Southwood.
    Market snapshots
    Design News >
    Dave Southwood's latest collection of photographs captures the intricacies of the legendary Milnerton Market. >
    18 Nov 10
  • Taxi Crash - Gordon Froud.
    Art road trip
    Design News >
    The artworks of the various winners of the Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will be touring the country for the next couple of months. >
    16 Jun 10
  • Strike by Lynette Bester, 2010.
    Milestones and goalposts
    Design News >
    In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives. >
    8 Jun 10
  • Infecting the City
    Rite-specific art
    Design News > Interaction Design
    Infecting the City – the third Spier Public Arts Festival – is taking to the streets, squares and public spaces of Cape Town. >
    2 Feb 10
  • New made rubbish
    Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design
    Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways. >
    1 Feb 10
  • Second Spier Contemporary exhibition opens
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    The Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will open its doors to show contemporary South African art for diverse audiences. >
    29 Jan 10
  • Worldly stuff
    Profiling > Architecture & Interiors / Interaction Design / Music & Sound Design
    Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha. >
    1 Nov 08
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News > Product Design / Craft
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
    2 Nov 07
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