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Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Music & Sound Design

Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona. >

1 Nov 08
Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration / Urban & Landscape Design

Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design. >

1 Nov 08
Cattle heads ceramics competition

Design News > Craft

This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >

1 Nov 08
Bird on a wire

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration. >

1 Nov 08
Western Cape Furniture Design Competition

Design News > Product Design

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

1 Nov 08
Travelling on trains with kids

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >

1 Nov 08
$100 000 prize for Design Indaba 10x10

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

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

1 Nov 08
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
Shrinking the art world

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The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound. >

1 Nov 08
The Art of Possibility Returns

Design News > Design Thinking / Music & Sound Design

Benjamin and Rosamund Zander to return for more Art of Possibility on December 1 and 3, after a jam-packed programme across South Africa. >

1 Nov 08
Tees for trees

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

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

1 Nov 08
New fair trade shop in South Africa

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November. >

1 Nov 08
Design Indaba film to air

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United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. >

1 Nov 08
Rhode hits London streets

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South African art lovers have long known that Robin Rhode's stop-motion street-inspired art is too cool for school, now he's hit London. >

1 Nov 08
Hot foreigners in Jozi

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

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. >

1 Nov 08
Head honcho

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success. >

1 Nov 08
City of type

Design News > Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration

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

1 Nov 08
Paula Scher does China

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >

1 Nov 08
X-rated peace and diversity

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

1 Nov 08
Full moon for eco-fashion

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Design Thinking

Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week. >

1 Nov 08
Springleap vs Threadless

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless. >

1 Nov 08
SVW scholarship and workshop

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days. >

1 Nov 08
Not quite Discovery Channel

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

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

1 Nov 08
The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >

1 Nov 08

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