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Underground at Woolworths

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >

2 Nov 07
The bobo movement

Design News > Product Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >

2 Nov 07
MCQP is FAB

Design News > Design Thinking / Creative Economy

What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >

2 Nov 07
Tsai times two

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >

2 Nov 07
Shoe-wow!

Design News > Industrial Design

Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >

2 Nov 07
‘You can’t bomb an idea’

Design News > Design Thinking / Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >

2 Nov 07
Crafting a difference

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >

2 Nov 07
New old solutions

Design News > Design Thinking

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >

1 Aug 07
Gold Loerie for Design Indaba

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Interactive Africa clinched 10 Loerie awards at the ceremony held in Margate from July 28 to 29. >

1 Aug 07
Buying green back

Design News > Design Thinking

Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental. >

1 Aug 07
10 Houses = 10 Families

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector >

1 Aug 07
Flotsam and jetsam

Design News > Design Thinking

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture. >

1 Aug 07
The brief: Fan your passion 2010

Design News > Creative Economy

South Africa will host one of the world's greatest sporting events in only three years time - the 2010 FIFA World Cup. >

1 May 07
Fanfest by King James RSVP

Design News > Creative Economy

King James RSVP proposes that our local taxis and taxi drivers become the hosts and ambassadors to the tourists. >

1 May 07
Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG

Design News > Creative Economy

Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever. >

1 May 07
Online innovation

Design News > Interaction Design

Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies. >

1 May 07
Super normal

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics. >

1 May 07
The Ultimate Guide to Local Design out now

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The Ultimate Guide to Local Design brings together South Africa's best designs and designers who exhibited at the Design Indaba Expo 2007. >

20 Mar 07
A Taste For Type

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research. >

1 Feb 07
Geografias ingenuas

Design News > Product Design / Interaction Design

Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary. >

1 Feb 07
Afro Guchi

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Vlisco’s transformation into a leading fashion house is partly the result of competition from cheap Chinese imports. >

1 Feb 07
Creative nation

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem. >

1 Feb 07
Put your best foot forward

Design News > Product Design / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker? >

1 Feb 07
Mechanical magic

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition. >

1 Feb 07

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