August 2008 Archive

  • Arne Quinze
    Orchestrating chaos
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp. >
  • Diminutive disaster
    Q&A • 1 Aug 08
    Constantin Boym talks about what the 20th century taught him about the power of the miniature and memory. >
  • "Having guts always works out for me"
    Reviews • 1 Aug 08
    Design Indaba reads Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister. >
  • Line drawings and delicate porcelains
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer. >
  • Puff and pass
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4. >
  • From Surface to Parsons
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School. >
  • Sunflower power
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >
  • From Talking Heads to singing building
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building. >
  • Design votes out Mugabe
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >
  • Side profile
    Profiling • 1 Aug 08
    Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. >
  • True to type
    Q&A • 1 Aug 08
    Young designers in Kosovo are building a new visual order. Peet Pienaar speaks to typographer and information designer Yll Rugova. >
  • Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous
    Lookbook • 1 Aug 08
    Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces. >
  • Gardening on pavements
    Opinion • 1 Aug 08
    Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene. >
  • By Ontwerp.TV
    Look ma, no skool
    Opinion • 1 Aug 08
    Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing. >
  • By Pancho Guedes
    The house that Pancho built
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent. >
  • Conversations on a Toronto afternoon
    Q&A • 1 Aug 08
    Architect Len Abelman sets off to meet expats Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg, two South Africans shaping the Toronto cityscape. >
  • Twee tees
    Design News • 1 Aug 08
    While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real. >
  • All that glitters
    Hot Topic • 1 Aug 08
    Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling. >
  • Elaborately cheeky work
    Reviews • 1 Aug 08
    Jaime Hayon Works offers a thorough exposition of the prolific designer's interdisciplinary approach and extraordinary talent. >
  • Jozi's mine
    Do Tank News • 1 Aug 08
    Design Indaba challenged Jozi creatives to claim the city of Johannesburg, Africa's most developed city. >
  • Sinking into beauty
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Design Indaba alumnus Ilse Crawford, tasked with designing the Aesop shop pairs modern interventions with endearing revival. >
  • Green house for green skin
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works. >
  • Fashion unions take to the street
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Grabbing public attention in May, the SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) took the Cape Town Fashion Festival to the streets. >
  • Fashion week frenzy
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    The fashion week season saw fashion shows galore delighting audiences at the Durban, Johannesburg and then Cape Town Fashion Weeks. >

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