South Africa

Get a handle on SA architecture

Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >
Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints

Tribute to internationally celebrated fashion photographer Crispian Plunkett, who passed away recently. >
Siblings bring music to T-shirts

Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit. >
Twiice goes local

Leading South African distributor of global design products, Twiice International, has launched a local production arm, Designfaktori. >
Graphic novel goes down the gut

In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant. >
Euro chic hotel for Jozi

Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China

Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009. >
The disgrace of popularity

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >
The indigenous style

Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >
But is it “African”?

You’d think that, as a designer based in Africa, it would be easy to answer the question “What constitutes African design?” >
Post-er-boy

Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations. >
Paint the town with poetry

Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing. >
Interversion

Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art. >
Hands-free viral

Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile. >
Installation in motion

A large scale and site-specific installation by designer Clive Rundle entailed three models climbing out of a wall. >
The Creative Cape

Can positioning Cape Town as a global creative destination and design mecca save the regional economy from being marginalised? >
Trend Report

Li Edelkoort recently touched down in SA to share her positive vision of the future at a pair of seminars in Cape Town and Johannesburg. >
Dai me up

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World's design dynamos add colour to indaba

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Thirty years on

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Screen Africa

Broadcast, film, commercial, new media and technology news. >
Outside the box

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Designer Hair

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Free thinker

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