November 2007 Archive

  • Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien
    1+1 makes 3
    Profiling • 1 Nov 07
    Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration. >
  • Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington. >
  • The first Droog Christmas Dinner by Marije Vogelzang.
    From the stomach to the heart
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    “Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang. >
  • Kill the copy cat
    Opinion • 1 Nov 07
    Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights. >
  • By Maxim Velcovsky
    Maximum velocity
    Q&A • 1 Nov 07
    When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique. >
  • Crafting a difference
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty. >
  • Design Indaba 2008: Create a better world
    Festival News • 2 Nov 07
    Leading creative thinkers will converge at the Design Indaba Conference from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 2008. >
  • ‘You can’t bomb an idea’
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with... >
  • Tall tale for kids
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards. >
  • Shoe-wow!
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >
  • Tsai times two
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >
  • MCQP is FAB
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >
  • The bobo movement
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >
  • Simon Waterfall
    Waterfall on the digital “now”
    Digital News • 2 Nov 07
    The Times, in association with Design Indaba and D&AD, hosted two workshops in October with UK's Simon Waterfall. >
  • Underground at Woolworths
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • The public secret of avatars
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • Metal muscle
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • The plight of healing plants
    Reviews • 2 Nov 07
    Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >

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