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Electric wheels for SA

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >

11 Jan 08
Not out of the woods

Design News > Design Thinking

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >

2 Nov 07
1 000 lights make green work

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >

2 Nov 07
The public secret of avatars

Design News > Design Thinking

Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >

2 Nov 07
Five-day wooden house

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >

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
MCQP is FAB

Design News > Design Thinking / Creative Economy

What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >

2 Nov 07
Tsai times two

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >

2 Nov 07
‘You can’t bomb an idea’

Design News > Design Thinking / Creative Economy / Graphic Design & Illustration

The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >

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
Kill the copy cat

Opinion > Design Thinking

Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >

1 Nov 07
New old solutions

Design News > Design Thinking

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet. >

1 Aug 07
10 Houses = 10 Families

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector >

1 Aug 07
Carpet bombing

Opinion > Design Thinking

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat. >

1 Aug 07
Buying green back

Design News > Design Thinking

Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental. >

1 Aug 07
A Kyoto treaty for design

Opinion > Design Thinking

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design. >

1 Aug 07
Flotsam and jetsam

Design News > Design Thinking

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture. >

1 Aug 07
How many designers does it take to change the light?

Opinion > Design Thinking

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover. >

1 Aug 07
Design Indaba 10… Ideas

Festival News > Design Thinking

Not accepting the status quo was a recurring theme at the tenth Design Indaba in Cape Town this year. >

1 May 07
Woolworths: Driving design into the future

Do Tank News > Design Thinking

Among the many faces at Design Indaba there's one that virtually every delegate will recognise at a glance. >

23 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Flowerball

Design Indaba Campaigns > Design Thinking / Film & Animation / Product Design

An official commercial for Design Indaba 2007, based on Heath Nash's Flowerball light. >

20 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Kreepy Krauly

Design Indaba Campaigns > Design Thinking

The official commercial for Design Indaba 2007. The commercial showcases the kreepy krauly, a South African invention by Ferdinand Chauvier. >

19 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Hippo Roller

Design Indaba Campaigns > Design Thinking

The official commercial for the Design Indaba 2007, featuring the hippo roller - an invention designed by Johan Jonker and Pettie Petzer. >

19 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007

Festival News > Design Thinking

The 2007 Design Indaba Expo's 20 755 visitors and the Conference's 2664 delegates, made it the most successful at the time. >

19 Feb 07

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