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  • Berna Buys
    Berna Buys
    Berna Buys is a South African fashion designer. >
    12 Dec 19
  • Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers
    Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers
    Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers mix traditional design principles with contemporary trends. >
    7 Nov 14
  • Ed Suter Wallpaper
    Ed Suter launches wallpaper
    Product Spotlight > African Design / Art & Photography / Product Design
    The Cape Town-based photographer brings the vibrant style of Africa's street life and tropical climate indoors. >
    14 Oct 14
  • Atang Tshikare wallpaper for Robin Sprong.
    Walls that talk
    Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design
    Robin Sprong Wallpaper wants to plaster your walls in pattern. Here are three recent collaborations with locally based designers. >
    29 Sep 14
  • Eddie Opara at Design Indaba 2012
    Eddie Opara: Who am I and what do I do as a designer?
    Video Interviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Interaction Design
    Graphic designer Eddie Opara gives insight into what makes him who he is and what he does as a designer. >
    7 Dec 12
  • Wall & all
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Design Kist's gorgeous range of fabrics and wallpaper is ideal for brightening up any indoor space, and adding a unique South African touch. >
    21 Feb 12
  • Blog: Day 2 of AGI Open Barcelona
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Questions, answers and happiness were considered on the final day of the AGI Open in Barcelona. There was even a song and dance to end it off. >
    5 Oct 11
  • Images by Jeff Metal courtesy of JaguarShoes Collective.
    Red green blue
    Design News >
    Italian design duo Carnovsky takes their RGB technique to London with La Selva, exploring the jungle environment. >
    26 Aug 11
  • Do good work at DI2011
    Festival News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    Doing work of the highest quality characterises the creative output of Bibliotheque's studio in London. >
    15 Dec 10
  • Minksters.
    Meet the Minksters
    Design News > Product Design
    The Minksters are more than just adorable little characters, they're also super useful USB flashdrives. >
    26 Nov 10
  • Mural for Neil Ellis Wines by Lorenzo Nassimbeni.
    Flow chart
    Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration
    There's something very romantic about winemaking depicted as a linear process against a wall. >
    8 Nov 10
  • Transkei Cows - textile design.
    Treasure chest
    Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Design Kist is an interesting new online design studio to showcase the work of South African creatives. >
    2 Nov 10
  • Wall panels by Anne Kyyrö Quinn.
    Whispering walls
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Anne Kyyrö Quinn’s unique designs may qualify as the world’s most beautiful sound-proof wall panels. >
    9 Oct 10
  • Ellis Park Swimming Pool.
    Journey through Jo'Burg
    Reviews > Creative Economy / Urban & Landscape Design
    Jo'burg is a place of harsh contrasts and with fast pace. But it's also full of hidden treasures, as the Wallpaper* guide points out. >
    24 Sep 10
  • The Wallpaper* City Guide to Cape Town. Photo: Courtesy of Phaidon publishers.
    The Republic of Cape Town
    Reviews > Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration
    It’s a local joke that Cape Town is a republic of its own. The Wallpaper* City Guide gives some hints as to why. >
    4 Aug 10
  • Airside Granimator pack.
    Jazz up your iPhone
    Design News > Music & Sound Design
    Granimator is a cool new iPhone app that allows you to make your own musical wallpaper. >
    30 Jun 10
  • RGB Wallpaper. Photo: Luca Volpe.
    Like an illusion
    Design News > Product Design / Architecture & Interiors
    A series of wallpapers representing a metamorphosis reveals some unexpected and disorientating images. >
    29 Jun 10
  • The future is entertaining
    Reviews > Creative Economy
    Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity. >
    2 Jun 10
  • CD: Shaka Won
    Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration / Music & Sound Design
    After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won. >
    28 Nov 09
  • Witty wallpaper
    Design News > Product Design / Graphic Design & Illustration
    Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness. >
    1 Nov 08
  • The road to Wallpaper
    Q&A > Design Thinking / Creative Economy
    Interview with Tyler Brûlé, founder of *Wallpaper magazine. >
    1 May 03
  • Bright Ideo
    Lookbook > Industrial Design / Product Design
    Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa is a designer with the innovative design firm IDEO. >
    1 Nov 02
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