The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments. >

MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge. >

Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >

Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. >

The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >

Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi. >

Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography. >

A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists. >

Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others. >

The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals. >

Stefano Giovannoni’s OrienTales opens a new chapter in the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan. >