Craft

Natural connection

Design News > Craft

Kate MacDowell’s porcelain sculptures are both intriguing and disturbing. Her work explores the interaction between humans and nature. >

11 Jan 11
John Bauer

John Bauer pushes the limits of what is technically possible in ceramics. >

8 Jan 11
Graphic patterns

Design News > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

Renée Rossouw’s Pattern Diary designs for Bosa Ceramics play with different patterns, identities and compositions. >

1 Jan 11
Designed things

Design News > Product Design / Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Object Rotterdam, at the cutting edge of art and design, will showcase limited edition designs, craft and jewellery. >

31 Dec 10
Free lines

Design News > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

Putting pen to paper is what Lauren Fowler does best. Meet a Cape Town illustrator who also has interesting craft talents. >

29 Dec 10
Potterseed

Potterseed is the gorgeous new range developed by Kate Carlyle of Mustardseed & Moonshine and Chris Silverston of The Potters Workshop. >

27 Dec 10
Baskets for bread

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Basket Case celebrated the crafting skills of basket makers in Zimbabwe recently. >

27 Dec 10
Diana Ferreira

Handmade glass beads are combined with ceramic vessels to make functional homeware. >

20 Dec 10
Molten and Sielja Voss

Martli Jansen van Rensburg (Molten) and Sielja Voss have been working as artists and glass designers for the past ten years. >

12 Dec 10
Zizamele Ceramics

Zizamele Ceramics makes "world class ceramics in Africa." >

10 Dec 10
Supporting the sisterhood

Design News > Craft

State of the Nation is a Jo'burg-based cooperative that's empowering women by teaching them creative skills that earn them money. >

27 Nov 10
Life, crocheted

Design News > Craft

In recent years knitting, yes that thing your grandmother does, has become cool again. And it seems crocheting is not far behind. >

17 Nov 10
ISUNA South African Arts + Crafts

Isuna manufactures decorative ceramic art pieces for interior design and ceramic designer tableware. >

14 Nov 10
Clementina van der Walt Ceramic Studio

Clementina van der Walt Ceramic Studio produces both functional and decorative pieces. >

11 Nov 10
Here tonight, gone tomorrow

Design News > Craft

One Night Only is a single night exhibition featuring the work of local artists Lucinda Mudge. >

9 Nov 10
Zenzulu

Zenzulu founder and designer Marisa Fick-Jordaan embraces the inventive possibility and the skilful artistry of the human hand to breathe life into ideas. >

3 Nov 10
Design by the other 90%

Design News > Product Design / Craft / Design Thinking

The streets of Brazil are full of startling design solutions by ordinary people driven by pure human need. >

1 Nov 10
Cameron Barnes

In a world where things are designed to be used once and thrown away, we picture a new lifecycle for the furniture and products we design and make. >

1 Nov 10
Kurukuru-maki

Design News > Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

A Heath Nash chair design that you can make at home. >

1 Nov 10
May the force be with you

Design News > Craft

Inspired by space, designed on Earth, Mingo Lamberti’s new range of T-shirts brings a strong force with it. >

26 Oct 10
Kiddies Over The Moon

Kiddies Over The Moon creates fun and unique plush African animal characters in a variety of forms and sizes. >

12 Oct 10
Friends with business benefits

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy / Product Design

A new non-profit initiative is empowering local craft and design businesses for commercial success by teaching them valuable skills. >

5 Oct 10
A stitch in time

Design News > Craft

A charity initiative in the UK is teaching valuable craft skills to prisoners, and their designs are interestingly unique. >

17 Sep 10
Filling in the blanks

Design News > Craft / Architecture & Interiors

A group exhibition, Whitespace, at Salon 91 explores the possibilities of a blank white space. >

13 Sep 10