Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >

The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >

Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >

Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >

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

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

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