Design News

The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table. >

Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries. >

Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”. >

Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design. >

Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage. >

Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls. >

Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >

Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >

All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >

After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin. >