Product Design

Pure not poor

Reviews > Industrial Design / Product Design / Creative Economy / Fashion & Jewellery Design

“Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa. >

1 Feb 09
Craft debate: Lauren Shantall

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Deputy editor of Elle Decoration SA, Design Indaba Expo curator and media partner, Lauren Shantall weighs in on the craft debate. >

1 Feb 09
Harsh geometry for plants

Design News > Product Design

Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >

1 Feb 09
Nobumichi Tosa

Nobumichi Tosa is a Japanese artist and founder of Maywa Denki, a design firm meets performance art collective. >

31 Jan 09
Marcel Wanders

Marcel Wanders is a Dutch designer who has been lauded by the The New York Times as the "Lady Gaga of the design world". >

31 Jan 09
BarberOsgerby

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby founded their eponymous design studio BarberOsgerby in 1996. >

31 Jan 09
5.5 designers

5.5 designers is a design studio started up in 2003 by Vincent Baranger, Jean-Sébastien Blanc, Anthony Lebossé and Claire Renard. >

31 Jan 09
The fabulous Marcel Wanders at Design Indaba 2009

Festival News > Product Design

Liberate your fabulousness with Marcel Wanders at Design Indaba Conference 2009, from February 25 to 27. >

9 Dec 08
5.5 question the status quo at Design Indaba 2009

Festival News > Product Design

Don't miss the opportunity to meet the 5.5 designers in person at Design Indaba from February 25 to 27, 2009. >

25 Nov 08
Witty wallpaper

Design News > Product Design / Graphic Design & Illustration

Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness. >

1 Nov 08
Exquisite scales

Design News > Product Design

Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design. >

1 Nov 08
Hot or cold?

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Product Design

Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop. >

1 Nov 08
The gospel truth

Design News > Product Design

Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >

1 Nov 08
The end of minimalism

Design News > Product Design

Stefano Giovannoni’s OrienTales opens a new chapter in the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan. >

1 Nov 08
Western Cape Furniture Design Competition

Design News > Product Design

The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments. >

1 Nov 08
Save the designer 5.5

Q&A > Product Design

Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession. >

1 Nov 08
But how does nature make you feel?

Reviews > Product Design / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely. >

1 Nov 08
Direct via the Transkei

Design News > Product Design

South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets. >

1 Nov 08
The origin of light

Design News > Product Design

Ingo Maurer unveiled his egg-shaped light for Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia, declaring the egg to be the perfect form. >

18 Aug 08
Princesses have backsides too

Design News > Product Design

Inspired by the princess and pea story, Doshi Levien's Principessa daybed consists of many thin mattress layers. >

12 Aug 08
Yves is for the children

Design News > Product Design

Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth. >

12 Aug 08
Garden furniture for good

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Environmental design studio Orange 22 in Los Angeles has launched the Botanist Blank Canvas Project, which raises money for charity. >

12 Aug 08
Brick-and-mortar design shop

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

Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books. >

12 Aug 08
Elaborately cheeky work

Reviews > Product Design / Creative Economy

Jaime Hayon Works offers a thorough exposition of the prolific designer's interdisciplinary approach and extraordinary talent. >

1 Aug 08