• Business for fashion students
    The Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, aimed at empowering young fashion designers with business mentoring, have announced the 2008 winners. >
  • Fashion week frenzy
    The fashion week season saw fashion shows galore delighting audiences at the Durban, Johannesburg and then Cape Town Fashion Weeks. >
  • Brick-and-mortar design shop
    Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books. >
  • Green house for green skin
    Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works. >
  • Hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on student design
    The winners of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Achievers student awards were announced on Youth Day, June 16. >
  • The green design race
    Cape Town creative agency the Design Works goes green, encouraging their clients to become more environmentally aware. >
  • Fashion unions take to the street
    Grabbing public attention in May, the SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) took the Cape Town Fashion Festival to the streets. >
  • Pecha Kucha in SA
    South Africa's first Pecha Kucha design open-mic event presented eight local creatives, hosted at the Whatiftheworld Gallery. >
  • Jozi's mine
    Design Indaba challenged Jozi creatives to claim the city of Johannesburg, Africa's most developed city. >
  • All that glitters
    Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling. >
  • Gardening on pavements
    Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene. >
  • Puff and pass
    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. >
  • Twee tees
    While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real. >
  • By Ontwerp.TV
    Look ma, no skool
    Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing. >
  • Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous
    Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces. >
  • Line drawings and delicate porcelains
    Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer. >
  • On the virtual edge
    The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK. >
  • Public art award announced
    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
    Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair. >
  • One thing that leads to another thing
    The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic. >
  • Creative Circle for Design Indaba
    Design Indaba's recycled radio advert won first prize for best radio advert in the February Creative Circle awards. >
  • Robot gets fieldtrip
    Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot. >
  • Optical delusions
    Cape Town's emo-electro outfit Unit.r have launched their debut album decked out in a full-house design campaign from illustrator Kronk. >
  • Coley Porter Bell launches in SA
    International branding and design company Coley Porter Bell has partnered with Ogilvy SA to launch locally. >

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