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A satirical puppet show developed and initiated by cartoonist Godfrey Mwampembwa has made it onto the airwaves in Kenya. >

Given Nkuna will represent South Africa at the British Council 2009 International Young Design Entrepreneur (IYDE) of the Year Award Finals. >

Both Net#work BBDO Johannesburg and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg walked away from the 2009 Cannes Lions with a sought after Grand Prix. >

Using Soshanguve FABlab, the design team at Readymade are prototyping The Nest fruit bowl for an income-generation venture. >

Tribute to internationally celebrated fashion photographer Crispian Plunkett, who passed away recently. >

Italian furniture brand Moroso celebrates the influence of Africa in the M’Afrique C’est Chic exhibition. >

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

Leading South African distributor of global design products, Twiice International, has launched a local production arm, Designfaktori. >

The Wattcher is a design object that displays the total electricity consumption of your home in a beautiful and meaningful way. >

Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >

Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London. >

Shigeru Ban’s ingenious new 10-Unit System for Artek can be used to make a chair, table or bench using just one simple L-shaped unit. >

Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK. >

Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009. >

Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >

RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam. >

Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >

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

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

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

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

Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >

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

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

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. >