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Puff and pass

Design News • 1 Aug 08

The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4. >
From Surface to Parsons

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School. >
Sunflower power

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >
From Talking Heads to singing building

Design News • 1 Aug 08

David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building. >
Design votes out Mugabe

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >
Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous

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Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces. >
The house that Pancho built

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent. >
Twee tees

Design News • 1 Aug 08

While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real. >
On the virtual edge

Design News • 2 May 08

The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK. >
Public art award announced

Design News • 2 May 08

Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces. >
Saffers hit Milan

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Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair. >
One thing that leads to another thing

Design News • 2 May 08

The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic. >
Robot gets fieldtrip

Design News • 2 May 08

Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot. >
Blossoming furniture

Design News • 2 May 08

Klein Dytham Architecture designed, developed and produced this outdoor cherry blossom party furniture. >
Coley Porter Bell launches in SA

Design News • 2 May 08

International branding and design company Coley Porter Bell has partnered with Ogilvy SA to launch locally. >
Nothing is lost

Design News • 2 May 08

Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece. >
Sea change

Design News • 2 May 08

Heath Nash's Anemone light for Artecnica was launched at this year's Milan Furniture Fair. >
Ziggy prop

Design News • 2 May 08

Ryan Frank's ZiG is a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo. >
Animation challenges the imagination ceiling

Design News • 2 May 08

Roger Smythe, managing director of multiple-award-winning animation studio Masters & Savant, talks about the possibilities of animation. >
Stay the night

Design News • 2 May 08

Architect Andrew Makin and entrepreneur Nicky Rofail have collaborated on a new boutique hotel, Motel Mi Pi Chi. >
MoMa acquires local design zines

Design News • 2 May 08

A selection of BitterKomix and BitterJusi issues have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection. >
The faces that find me

Design News • 2 May 08

Dylan Culhane's Photoklecksography exhibition was inspired by Justinus Kerner and Hermann Rorschach's exploration of mirrored images. >
Watching glass grow

Design News • 2 May 08

Ilse Doyer of Glamosa Glass and glass artist Martli Jansen van Rensburg have joined forces to explore and innovate on glass work. >
Design, art or soup kitchen?

Design News • 2 May 08

Exploring the legroom between art and design is Cape Town's newest gallery - Curious, Whetstone & Frankley. >

From the Archives

AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark

Design News • 25 Jun 15

This new exhibition of African creative culture aims to present a more varied view of the development and future prospects of this part of the world. >
Artist Gaelen Pinnock returns to three-dimensions

Design News • 25 Jun 15

The architect-turned-artist’s latest work, “Invisible Cities”, still depicts strange urban structures – but this time sculpturally. >
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors shines a spotlight on exceptional interior design

Design News • 25 Jun 15

A space-like TV studio, a healthy office and an exploded cinema set the bar high for the World Interior of the Year Award. >
Darb 1718: A place of exchange for Egypt’s artists

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:04 • 25 Jun 15

Reem Hatem fills us in on Darb 1718, the Cairo centre that is fostering the North African country’s art scene. >

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