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AEP Frames by Ballo and Atang Tshikare

Product Spotlight • 23 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Summer gets city-slick with illustrator Atang Tshikare's urban doodles on Ballo's handmade wooden sunglasses. >
Blackwood & Brass bench by Cameron Barnes

Product Spotlight • 19 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Made from a fallen blackwood tree, the designer's latest furniture piece sprouted from his passion for the natural landscape in KwaZulu-Natal. >
Font fusion

Design News • 17 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Dutch visual communications studio Thonik has designed a new graphic identity for the Holland Festival that fuses letters together for a bold visual statement. >
Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress

Product Spotlight • 15 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

The third edition of the Artist's Almanac by Essie Letterpress showcases some of the most exciting South African graphic designers. >
A school is unpacked in Malawi

Lookbook • 11 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

How a rural school went from fabrication at a workshop in Johannesburg to erection on a dusty site in the village of Chimphamba. >
"Die Steunpilaar" by Jan Douglas

Product Spotlight • 10 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

The South African designer creates a leaning lamp to add to his collection of minimalist lights and furniture. >
Square peas and family ponchos

Lookbook • 8 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Eight drawings of whimsical, wicked and weird inventions from Dominic Wilcox's blog-turned-book, "Variations on Normal". >
Preview of "Refuse the Hour"

Design News • 3 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Here's a preview of the magical performance "Refuse The Hour" by William Kentridge, Philip Miller, Dada Masilo, Catherine Meyburgh and Peter Galison. >
Material maestros

Lookbook • 3 Dec 14 • Sponsored Content

Studio Formafantasma explores the intersection between material and culture. Here are four of our favourite projects by the inventive duo. >
Nature’s colours

Design News • 30 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Satyendra Pakhalé tickles the imagination with a bright sculpture set in a beautiful tropical garden. >
5 favourites at the new Southern Guild gallery

Lookbook • 29 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

There's a new kid on the block in Woodstock's burgeoning art and design precinct that specialises in limited-edition South African design. >
New exhibitors at Design Indaba Expo 2015

Lookbook • 26 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Here's a taste from the feast of new work that will be showcased for the first time at Africa's largest design exhibition. >
3 game-changers for low-income housing?

Design News • 26 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

The three winners of the Better Living Challenge design competition each receive R500 000 worth of support services to develop their products for market. >
Silk Quilted Plaids by Borre Akkersdijk and Piet Hein Eek

Product Spotlight • 24 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

The designers present a range of richly patterned quilts made from fabrics left behind at an old tie factory. >
Hammered Bowls by Piet Hein Eek and Studio Floris Wubben

Product Spotlight • 22 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

This collection of misshapen bowls captures the performative act of making. >
The Diamond Condition by Kirsten Goss

Product Spotlight • 17 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Kirsten Goss's latest collection proves that sometimes a girl's best friend is a bit of irreverence. >
Floral Bomb by Missibaba

Product Spotlight • 15 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Celebrated accessory and handbag label, Missibaba delights with a flowery explosion. >
Walls that mark the passage of time

Lookbook • 14 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

A tour of the street art in Cape Town's neighbourhoods reveals some hidden artworks in the city. >
Dreams woven in raffia

Lookbook • 14 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

A trip to Bolgatanga in northern Ghana to meet the women who weave A A K S’s sought-after raffia bags. >
Tekku stools by Ira Studio

Product Spotlight • 12 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Teak and brass combine in two stools that exemplify this Chennai-based studio's subtle synthesis of age-old Indian craft and contemporary design. >
BISAZZA Hayón Tiles by Jaime Hayón

Product Spotlight • 10 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Patterns multiply underfoot in the Spanish designer's new collection of tiles for Bisazza. >
Window shopping at the Watershed

Lookbook • 9 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

We popped by the newly opened Watershed at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town to check out some of the gorgeous local design and craft on sale. >
Basotho blankets go north

Lookbook • 8 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Emerging fashion designer Thabo Makhetha launched her modern take on the Basotho blanket at Vancouver Fashion Week 2014. >
The evolution of Taibo Bacar

Lookbook • 6 Nov 14 • Sponsored Content

Mozambican fashion designer Taibo Bacar's latest colourful collection signals an evolutionary shift in his eponymous label. >

From the Archives

Pavilions on a pedestal

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Architectural pavilions can take creativity to the next level – but what makes a pavilion truly great? >
The sound of silence

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss >
A virtual leap for the lab

Q&A • 17 Apr 22

Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners >
Art across time

Design News • 17 Apr 22

Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms >

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