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SABS Design Excellence Award scheme

Design News • 2 May 08

South African product designers are invited to submit entries for the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Awards. >
Indie Undies

Design News • 2 May 08

With six years of success as local lingerie label Ruby, Robyn Lidsky has joined forces with David Gimpel to launch Men United. >
Along the way

Design News • 2 May 08

Disturbance Design's contribution to Cascoland, a multi-disciplinary public art project, which focussed on a walking route through Durban. >
50 buck design

Lookbook • 1 May 08 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba invited Durban creatives to show-and-tell us the best design to be bought in Durban for under R50. >
Redheads, tall tales and shoeboxes

Lookbook • 1 May 08 • Sponsored Content

Durban illustrator and designer Kim Longhurst shares her newest work. >
Reddy steady...

Design News • 1 May 08

Durban architect Ruben Reddy has accelerated into the fast lane of international sporting structures. >
Designers through the looking glass

Design News • 2 Feb 08

French product designer Matali Crasset is just one of the designers who contributed to Domestic's Narcisse collection of artists' mirrors. >
Top architecture exhibition in Cape Town

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The 2007 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture exhibition will be on show in Cape Town until March 30. >
Let them eat cake!

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and Frederico Duarte have picked up their pens to celebrate Portugal's heritage of cakes. >
The green pink party

Design News • 2 Feb 08 • Sponsored Content

Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007. >
Only you can prevent forest fires

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department. >
Winter fashion for cool cats

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008. >
Not quite the garden variety

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow. >
Hani Rashid and the sun king

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection. >
It's a pot, doll!

Design News • 2 Feb 08 • Sponsored Content

Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo. >
Carrol Boyes call for entries

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >
Max normal for kids

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >
Don't feed the animators

Design News • 1 Feb 08

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

Design News • 1 Feb 08

Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >
Electric wheels for SA

Design News • 11 Jan 08

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >
Art container

Design News • 15 Nov 07

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

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >
Monument to the now

Design News • 2 Nov 07

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

Design News • 2 Nov 07

The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >

From the Archives

What artworks see

Lookbook • 24 Jan 15

Masashi Kawamura’s new photo project reverses the relationship between artwork and viewer. >
Take Five

Take Five • 24 Jan 15

Performance artist Celeste Theron, wearing a crown of plastic bottles and making her way La Dolce Vita-style into a river, intrigued readers this week. >
Andrea Zittel: Art & Design

FilmFestFriday • 23 Jan 15

Art21 produces the first of a two-part documentary on Andrea Zittel. In this first installation she talks about “living in art”. >
The wood whisperers

Lookbook • 23 Jan 15

The duo behind Studio Propolis, who present at Design Indaba Conference 2015, are single-minded about making by hand and using resources sparingly. >

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