Design News

  • 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. >
  • New Africa
    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. >
  • Not out of the woods
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >
  • Volume control
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • Metal muscle
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Design News • 2 Nov 07 • Sponsored Content
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • The public secret of avatars
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Underground at Woolworths
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >
  • The bobo movement
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >
  • MCQP is FAB
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >
  • Tsai times two
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >
  • Shoe-wow!
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >
  • ‘You can’t bomb an idea’
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >
  • Crafting a difference
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >
  • New old solutions
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >
  • Buying green back
    Design News • 1 Aug 07
    Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental. >

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From the Archives

  • Heightened play
    Design News • 30 May 22
    Francesco Nassimbeni’s film, ‘AEIOU’ has scooped the prestigious Jury Award for Best Experimental Short at this year’s Cannes Short Film Festival. Here’s why >
  • What happens at the salone…
    Design News • 30 May 22
    The 60th edition of the world’s biggest furniture fair, Salone del Mobile.Milano – scheduled for June this year – is a vibrant subsidiary of Milan Design Week >
  • Thought print
    Q&A • 30 May 22
    Design Indaba Emerging Creative Mohau Moholane was always “that kid that drew”. He explains why people are his focal point and what art means to his identity >
  • Reimagination is the new disruption
    Design News • 30 May 22
    Disruption’s “softer” cousin, Reimagination, is a survival tool for brands, and leads the way to a better world through creativity >