May 2008 Archive

Fun for good

Festival News • 1 May 08

Patrick Burgoyne, editor of Creative Review, rounds up the 2008 Design Indaba Conference. >
Imagination @ 2.0 gbps

Opinion • 1 May 08

Professor Shin-ichi Takemura announces the dawn of a new era of mass media. >
Phantom limbs

Opinion • 1 May 08

With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger. >
Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design

Inside View • 1 May 08

Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design. >
A house for Mrs Jonkers

Do Tank News • 1 May 08

Portuguese design journalist Frederico Duarte visited the 10x10 Housing Project in Freedom Park during Design Indaba 2008. >
Reflections of an outsider

Festival News • 1 May 08

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

Profiling • 1 May 08

Amanda Laird Cherry talks about how the fabric of society has changed through her past few collections. >
50 buck design

Lookbook • 1 May 08

Design Indaba invited Durban creatives to show-and-tell us the best design to be bought in Durban for under R50. >
Processed space

Opinion • 1 May 08

Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many. >
Redheads, tall tales and shoeboxes

Lookbook • 1 May 08

Durban illustrator and designer Kim Longhurst shares her newest work. >
Reddy steady...

Design News • 1 May 08

Durban architect Ruben Reddy has accelerated into the fast lane of international sporting structures. >
Bright sparks with office jobs

Festival News • 1 May 08

Mark Rosenberg, editor of Design Times, visits Design Indaba's newest sibling, the Creative Company Conference in Amsterdam. >
Digital is not the answer

Inside View • 1 May 08

During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest. >
Digital dandies

Opinion • 1 May 08

Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are... >
Stay the night

Design News • 2 May 08

Architect Andrew Makin and entrepreneur Nicky Rofail have collaborated on a new boutique hotel, Motel Mi Pi Chi. >
MoMa acquires local design zines

Design News • 2 May 08

A selection of BitterKomix and BitterJusi issues have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection. >
Jupiter cracks the One Show list

Festival News • 2 May 08

The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town has been short listed for a number of One Show Awards this year. >
The faces that find me

Design News • 2 May 08

Dylan Culhane's Photoklecksography exhibition was inspired by Justinus Kerner and Hermann Rorschach's exploration of mirrored images. >
Watching glass grow

Design News • 2 May 08

Ilse Doyer of Glamosa Glass and glass artist Martli Jansen van Rensburg have joined forces to explore and innovate on glass work. >
Design, art or soup kitchen?

Design News • 2 May 08

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

Design News • 2 May 08

Billed as the world's first contemporary African art fair, the Jo'burg Art Fair 2008 welcomed 6 500 visitors through its doors. >
Remade plastic trees

Design News • 2 May 08

South Africa's second Open Lab was held recently at the Design Quarter in Johannesburg. >
2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary

Design News • 2 May 08

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

Design News • 2 May 08

Fashion design team duo Strangelove, Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, collaborated with Leora Farber on Dis-Location/Re-Location. >

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