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Craft debate: Geraldine Fenn

Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design

Jeweller and Design Indaba Expo curator and exhibitor, Geraldine Fenn weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >

1 Feb 09
Suss’t: An alternative to mall culture

Do Tank News > Craft / Design Thinking

The KZNSA Gallery, in collaboration with Design Indaba, are presenting an exhibition of the best local sustainable design. >

1 Nov 08
Cattle heads ceramics competition

Design News > Craft

This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >

1 Nov 08
Waste worthy of art

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking

The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >

1 Nov 08
The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination

Design News > Craft / Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >

1 Nov 08
Line drawings and delicate porcelains

Design News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer. >

1 Aug 08
Beads go ape

Reviews > Craft / Creative Economy

Bead by Bead presents the uplifting story of Monkeybiz, from original lightbulb moment to the beacon of social upliftment it is today. >

2 May 08
Design, art or soup kitchen?

Design News > Craft / Architecture & Interiors

Exploring the legroom between art and design is Cape Town's newest gallery - Curious, Whetstone & Frankley. >

2 May 08
2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary

Design News > Craft / Interaction Design / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

As part of the University of Pretoria's centenary celebrations, more than 2 000 designs by alumni will be exhibited. >

2 May 08
Reflections of an outsider

Festival News > Craft

Visiting South Africa from London, creative industries entrepreneur Eckhard Thiemann reviews Design Indaba Expo 2008. >

1 May 08
Design Indaba Expo: Most Beautiful Object in South Africa

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

The finalists for Design Indaba's Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2008 award have been announced. >

20 Feb 08
Design Indaba Expo: Newcomers set to delight visitors

Festival News > Architecture & Interiors / Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Design Indaba Expo, from February 23 to 26, 2008, pushes the boundaries of creative expression with some highly original new exhibitors. >

12 Feb 08
Carrol Boyes call for entries

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >

2 Feb 08
Max normal for kids

Design News > Product Design / Craft / Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >

2 Feb 08
Art container

Design News > Craft / Architecture & Interiors

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >

15 Nov 07
Wire dressed up as lamb

Design News > Craft

“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >

2 Nov 07
Coming out in shells

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >

2 Nov 07
Porcelain menagerie of memories

Design News > Craft / Product Design

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >

2 Nov 07
Hillbrow, London

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

The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >

2 Nov 07
Crafting a difference

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

Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >

2 Nov 07
Global Buyers Trek to Expo

Festival News > Craft / Product Design

This year's Design Indaba Expo attracted a record 137 registered buyers, 66 of them international. >

1 May 07
Feast on design

Festival News > Food Design / Craft / Graphic Design & Illustration

You’ll be feeding your mind and your imagination at Design Indaba Expo 2007, but you can also appease your appetite. >

19 Feb 07
Oog on Droog

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking / Product Design

Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry. >

1 Aug 06
Our products manifesto

Design News > Craft / Design Thinking

KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >

1 Aug 06

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