• City of type
    Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography. >
  • Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
    Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design. >
  • Springleap vs Threadless
    Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless. >
  • Hot foreigners in Jozi
    Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi. >
  • Nampak packaging design challenge
    Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge >
  • Jabu Ndlovu: Self-portrait. By Garth Walker.
    SA: The US of Africa
    Durban-based graphic designer Garth Walker has created a politically incorrect new exhibition for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale. >
  • Waaksaam en Wakker
    Although originally the offspring of Fokofpolisiekar, Van Coke Kartell have grown into themselves with a second album, Waaksaam en Wakker. >
  • SA fashion hits the silver screen
    South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa. >
  • Draw and draw again
    The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg. >
  • DIY electronic eco-design?
    Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change. >
  • Waste worthy of art
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
  • Music fun in a packet
    MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK. >
  • X-rated peace and diversity
    A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists. >
  • Four legs good, two legs bad
    Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others. >
  • The art of fashion
    Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate. >
  • Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
    The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments. >
  • The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination
    Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >
  • No more songs for girls
    Jo’burg indie electro outfit Model C have been described as “a dirty and beautiful eight-bit soundtrack that crawls under your skin”. >
  • Cattle heads ceramics competition
    This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >
  • The Art of Possibility Returns
    Benjamin and Rosamund Zander to return for more Art of Possibility on December 1 and 3, after a jam-packed programme across South Africa. >
  • Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
    MMA Architects have won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Income Housing project. >
  • Crime unleashes a reptile
    Cape Town illustrator and graphic novelist Luis Tolosana has unleashed the first episode of his self-drawn, written and funded Iguana-Man. >
  • Durban design headed for Berlin
    Durban's artSPACE gallery hosted the second annual Bigwood exhibition during July, featuring more than 40 designers. >
  • Egg and green beans
    Durban's Bean Bag Bahia Beach Club, sibling to Bean Bag Bohemia and Deli, features an up-market restaurant café as well as a deli. >

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