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SA young design entrepreneur

Creative Work • 21 Aug 09

Given Nkuna will represent South Africa at the British Council 2009 International Young Design Entrepreneur (IYDE) of the Year Award Finals. >
SA snaps up two Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions

Creative Work • 20 Aug 09

Both Net#work BBDO Johannesburg and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg walked away from the 2009 Cannes Lions with a sought after Grand Prix. >
Fablab bears fruit

Creative Work • 19 Aug 09

Using Soshanguve FABlab, the design team at Readymade are prototyping The Nest fruit bowl for an income-generation venture. >
Get a handle on SA architecture

Point of View • 18 Aug 09

Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >
Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints

Creative Work • 17 Aug 09

Tribute to internationally celebrated fashion photographer Crispian Plunkett, who passed away recently. >
Moroso does Africa

Creative Work • 16 Aug 09

Italian furniture brand Moroso celebrates the influence of Africa in the M’Afrique C’est Chic exhibition. >
Siblings bring music to T-shirts

Creative Work • 15 Aug 09

Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit. >
Twiice goes local

Creative Work • 14 Aug 09

Leading South African distributor of global design products, Twiice International, has launched a local production arm, Designfaktori. >
An eye on power

Creative Work • 13 Aug 09

The Wattcher is a design object that displays the total electricity consumption of your home in a beautiful and meaningful way. >
Graphic novel goes down the gut

Point of View • 12 Aug 09

In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant. >
Green objectified

Point of View • 11 Aug 09

Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement. >
No dust in this library

Creative Work • 10 Aug 09

Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >
Tribal iconography

Creative Work • 9 Aug 09

Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London. >
One chair is enough

Creative Work • 8 Aug 09

Shigeru Ban’s ingenious new 10-Unit System for Artek can be used to make a chair, table or bench using just one simple L-shaped unit. >
Would you like that with chips?

Creative Work • 7 Aug 09

Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK. >
Drawing on the walls

Creative Work • 6 Aug 09

Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009. >
Euro chic hotel for Jozi

Creative Work • 5 Aug 09

Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >
See through function

Creative Work • 4 Aug 09

RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam. >
Huggable couch

Creative Work • 3 Aug 09

Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China

Creative Work • 2 Aug 09

Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009. >
The disgrace of popularity

Creative Work • 1 Aug 09

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >
Homework

Point of View • 1 Aug 09

Design Indaba asked creatives born on the continent which of their works was most influenced by their place of birth. >
Immortal be captured

Interviews • 1 Aug 09

Youssef Nabil tells Design Indaba about cinema, sleep, death and living between places. >
Post-er-boy

Creative Work • 1 Aug 09

Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations. >

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