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Come on, let's twist again!

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Dubai will be home to the world's first rotating skyscraper, the so-called Dynamic Tower, designed by Italian architect Dr David Fisher. >
Brick-and-mortar design shop

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books. >
Orchestrating chaos

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp. >
Line drawings and delicate porcelains

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer. >
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

Design News • 2 May 08 • Sponsored Content

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. >

From the Archives

Self-taught inventor powers a village in West Africa using hydro energy

Design News • 18 Oct 17

He built a micro-hydroelectric dam for his village using his savings of about R78 000. >
Speak up, speak out, speak back: Africa Architecture Awards 2017

Design News • 17 Oct 17

"What is African architecture? What makes architecture work on this continent?," asks Mark Olweny, a judge at this year’s Africa Architecture Awards. >
First stage of Dementia gets innovative home hub

Product Spotlight • 16 Oct 17

With the push of a button, misplacing belongings in stage one Dementia might become less frustrating. >
Buitenkant takes a look at homelessness in Cape Town

Design News • 16 Oct 17

This homeless woman discovers a set of keys in a muddy puddle of water. >

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