Design News

  • Interpret Africa
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Interpretations of Africa: Football, Art and Design celebrates Puma's new football kit, inspired by African culture and history, for Puma's football teams. >
  • Food edit
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Photoshop for your food? The iPlate lets you play around with your food, much like you would play around with pictures in image editing software. >
  • Climate simulation
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    SunGlacier is a "climate simulation" prototype that explores ways of making ice in the desert. >
  • Health function
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health. >
  • Jusi flavours
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, William Kentridge and David Goldblatt are some of the artists whose work features in the i-Jusi Portfolio Number 2. >
  • Wild for animals
    Design News • 6 Nov 11
    Winner of the Best Graphic Design award at the Dutch Design Awards Rop van Mierlo tells about his Wilde Dieren book project. >
  • State/status
    Design News • 5 Nov 11
    Kudzanai Chiurai's State of the Nation exhibition unpacks the notion of "state" using art, photography, performance and videos. >
  • The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton. Photo: Dave Brown.
    Mad comedy
    Design News • 5 Nov 11
    Off-beat, surreal and funny but that’s what one would expect from Noel Fielding and a book with the title The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton. >
  • Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo for music.
    Shining young stars
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Recognising artistic excellence in the visual and performing arts, the winners of the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award were announced recently. >
  • Kitty Hawk 2.0
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Is it a bird or is it a plane? It's the E-volo Multicopter, a helicopter-like craft for cruising the space above the ground. >
  • Map away
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    MAPS is a wonderful collection of cartographical pieces created by Paula Scher over the past 20 years. >
  • Who's afraid?
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Vampires in the desert and sightings of Kurt Cobain in the Karoo? Could it be? Who's afraid? Van Coke Kartel's latest graphic novel investigates. >
  • Looking swell
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    An iPad case by Swell accessories with a bamboo and leather look is rather... well, swell. >
  • Growing, patiently
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    Patience, we know, is a great virtue. It could also be the key to a more sustainable way of building. Visiondivision explore. >
  • Publically functional
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    The Western Cape Furniture Design Competition is calling on designers to create beautiful, functional public furniture pieces with alien wood. >
  • Zanele Muholi. Ummeli, 2011. (Image courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery).
    Period pains
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    Zanele Muholi's "Isilumo siyaluma" collection of work looks at the stigmas and violence black lesbians in South Africa face. >
  • Black again
    Design News • 1 Nov 11
    Black Pearl, a modern reinterpretation of an old property in Rotterdam, was awarded the Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards recently. >
  • A Peace Treaty merchandise.
    Creative freedom
    Design News • 1 Nov 11
    The Freedom to Create Prize Festival, which aims to empower grassroots organisations through the arts, will be taking place in Cape Town this November. >
  • Modular makings
    Design News • 1 Nov 11
    The Clik Lamp and Treze Library bookshelf by Katarq encourages the user to interact with the products by easily assembling it. >
  • Classroom of hope
    Design News • 31 Oct 11
    A school in Klapmuts outside Stellenbosch is more than a place of learning for children. It is a beacon of hope for a community. >
  • Critical mass
    Design News • 31 Oct 11
    What a mass! Ten designers considered the methods, material and manufacturing of mass production. >
  • African roots
    Design News • 31 Oct 11
    Stylish and practical, Quamta's range of leather accessories are ideal for the modern individual. >
  • Paper creations
    Design News • 28 Oct 11
    Maverick filmmaker David Lynch's collection of drawings, Works on Paper, reveal something about his creative processes. >
  • Material forms
    Design News • 28 Oct 11
    Lorenzo Nassimbeni recently took part in an exhibition that looked at the creative handling of materials for quality and sustainability. >

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From the Archives

  • Athi and Irma
    Q&A • 24 May 22
    Finding connections between South Africa’s past and present >
  • Eye on the prize
    Design News • 22 May 22
    Mariam Issoufou Kamara, founder of the award-winning Atelier Masōmī, will lead the design of a new museum and cultural centre – Bët-bi – in southwestern Senegal >
  • Stylin’
    Q&A • 22 May 22
    Riyaadh Ismail’s sustainable, gender-neutral luxury streetwear redefines Johannesburg street culture >
  • Story of my life
    Q&A • 16 May 22
    Njabulo Maseko is on a mission to open doors for the youth to express the power of their inner creativity >