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Index: to improve life

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking / Design Thinking

Boasting the largest purse of any design competition INDEX: 2009 shared 500 000 euros between five category winners. >

6 Nov 09
Family furniture

Design News > Product Design

Ilse Crawford launches her newest range, Seating for Eating. >

3 Nov 09
Respect cheap design

Design News > Product Design

Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”. >

2 Nov 09
Space explorer

Q&A > Product Design

Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design. >

1 Nov 09
Transhuman metamorphosis

Q&A > Product Design / Interaction Design

Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations. >

1 Nov 09
The don of design

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design

Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life. >

1 Nov 09
Grown tables

Design News > Product Design

A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >

1 Nov 09
Barrel o’ rain

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Designed to look like a giant water drop, Bas van der Veer’s A Drop of Water collects rainwater by filling a watering can and rain barrel. >

1 Nov 09
Molecular meat

Design News > Food Design / Product Design

Cocoon by Rickard Hederstierna is a response to the world’s growing population and its desire to consume meat and fish. >

1 Nov 09
Pocketful of posies

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >

1 Nov 09
Singing in the rain

Design News > Design Thinking / Product Design

The Filterbrella by Andrew Leinonen provides protection while collecting and filtering rainwater to make it safe to drink. >

1 Nov 09
Hard stomach

Design News > Product Design

Julia Lohmann’s work explores the threshold between animal and animal material, probing society’s attitude towards animals. >

1 Nov 09
Less can be better

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Lisbon-based design, architecture and creativity biennale, ExperimentaDesign, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. >

29 Oct 09
Countertop farming

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen. >

2 Oct 09
“Protect yourself from stupid rules”

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Designed by Ingo Maurer, the Euro Condom is a reaction to the new EU guideline that bans frosted bulbs. >

30 Aug 09
Arad still on form

Design News > Product Design

Although Ron Arad has resigned from the Royal College of Arts, he’s nowhere near done. >

29 Aug 09
Natural design stories

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius’s "Artificial Flowers" and "Animal Tables" celebrated the sculptural qualities of design. >

27 Aug 09
Gregor Jenkin comes out tops

Design News > Product Design

Gregor Jenkin was chosen winner in the design category of the South Africa's Celebrating Strides awards. >

25 Aug 09
Fablab bears fruit

Design News > Product Design

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

19 Aug 09
Moroso does Africa

Design News > Product Design / Architecture & Interiors

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

16 Aug 09
Twiice goes local

Design News > Product Design

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

14 Aug 09
An eye on power

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

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

13 Aug 09
Green objectified

Reviews > Product Design / Design Thinking

Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement. >

11 Aug 09
Tribal iconography

Design News > Product Design

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

9 Aug 09

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