August 2009 Archive

  • See through function
    Design News • 4 Aug 09
    RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam. >
  • Huggable couch
    Design News • 3 Aug 09
    Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >
  • Mingo Lamberti: Made in China
    Design News • 2 Aug 09
    Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009. >
  • The disgrace of popularity
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >
  • Interversion
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art. >
  • Paint the town with poetry
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing. >
  • Spoek Mathambo
    Post-er-boy
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations. >
  • The indigenous style
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >

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