2008 Archive

Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography. >

New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days. >

Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge >

The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg. >

Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town. >

Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design. >

MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge. >

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

Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters. >

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

MMA Architects won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-cost Housing project. >