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Blog from Festarch festival: The Stargate machine - revolt!

Design News • 6 Jun 11

“Vomit the space out of your mind”, insightful parting words on the last day of the Festarch festival. >
Blog from Festarch festival: A real human comedy

Design News • 5 Jun 11

A one-man show, a “coalition of amateurs” and real human comedy at the Festarch festival. >
Blog from Festarch festival: Urban age meets Babel Tower

Design News • 4 Jun 11

The dark urban age meets the Babel Tower in a wrestling ring on top of a skyline building at the Festarch festival. >
Blog from Venice Biennale: From Venice, with love

Design News • 4 Jun 11

At the Venice Biennale, the presence of artists from Africa is very refreshing. >
Light for the nations

Design News • 3 Jun 11

ILLUMInations is the title of the 54th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, curated by Bice Curiger. >
Old and new

Design News • 3 Jun 11

At the Design Museum Holon, the New Olds exhibition explores the space in design between tradition and innovation. >
Mobile sauna

Design News • 3 Jun 11

Keen for a steamy session? Enjoy one on the move with the Bicycle Sauna by H3T Architects. >
Future visions

Design News • 3 Jun 11

The Festarch festival explores visions of a future city that prioristises civil engagement, shared spaces and an open society. >
Creative dinner party

Design News • 2 Jun 11

Skaftien is a community-based project promoting experimental ideas by assisting with micro grants. >
With instructions

Design News • 2 Jun 11

The Information Blanket hopes to improve infant mortality rates by giving parents in underdeveloped areas vital health information. >
Blog: What Design Can Do conference round-up

Design News • 1 Jun 11

Dutch courage pays off at the What Design Can Do conference. >
Tea party

Design News • 1 Jun 11

Add a touch of magic to every tea party with Yuya vs. Design’s lovely Paper Tea Set. >
Power for art’s sake

Design News • 31 May 11

South African painter Carla Busuttil has caught Charles Saatchi’s eye among others. >
Making a pitch

Design News • 31 May 11

An idea for a new board game, The Pitch, brings out the graphic designer in everyone. >
Blog: Day 2 of What Design Can Do Conference

Design News • 31 May 11

The last day of the What Design Can Do conference was a mix and match of a little bad with a whole lot of good. >
Interactive tree

Design News • 30 May 11 • Sponsored Content

Lit Tree is an interactive light installation that takes a new approach to 3D mapping. >
Types like India

Design News • 30 May 11

The headline typeface for an India-themed issue of Wallpaper* draws on the rich visual culture of India. >
Actively sitting

Design News • 30 May 11

At five metres tall, the Empty Chair by Maarten Baas is a symbol of the peaceful battle for human rights. >
Spectacle revolution

Design News • 29 May 11

Self-adjusting glasses may go on to help billions of people in the developing world with poor eyesight. >
Total joy

Design News • 28 May 11

TOTAL, a new music compilation of Joy Division and New Order, features striking artwork by Peter Saville. >
Craft evolution

Design News • 28 May 11

Jurgen Bey curates an exhibition that looks to the connection between production processes of past and present. >
Blog: Day 1 of What Design Can Do Conference

Design News • 27 May 11

Rohan Shivkumar, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares and Oliviero Toscani stood out on day one of the What Design Can Do Conference in Amsterdam. >
Colourful cityscapes

Design News • 27 May 11

An interactive installation, Build Up! by the Rockwell Group’s LAB invited guests to help design a virtual cityscape. >
Greener grass

Design News • 27 May 11

Hat-trick have served up an interesting new brand identity for the famous Wimbledon tennis club. >

From the Archives

Time flies

Design News • 1 May 22

Design Indaba alumnus Neil Harbisson is ready to live Einstein’s theory of relativity with the help of a new wing-shaped sense organ >
Skyfall

Design News • 1 May 22

A never-ending stream of dominoes extending upwards provides the building blocks of architect Jean-Paul Cassia’s latest brainchild, the Zanzibar Tower >
The multipotentialite side of life

Q&A • 1 May 22

Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nuraan Khan wants to make beautiful, functional design accessible to everyone >
Where science and fiction meet

Q&A • 1 May 22

Kuang-Yi Ku, a former dentist turned speculative designer and artist, explores a fictional future where termites and humans live in harmony >

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