August 2009 Archive

  • Green objectified
    Reviews • 11 Aug 09
    Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement. >
  • No dust in this library
    Design News • 10 Aug 09
    Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >
  • Tribal iconography
    Design News • 9 Aug 09
    Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London. >
  • One chair is enough
    Design News • 8 Aug 09
    Shigeru Ban’s ingenious new 10-Unit System for Artek can be used to make a chair, table or bench using just one simple L-shaped unit. >
  • Would you like that with chips?
    Design News • 7 Aug 09
    Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK. >
  • Drawing on the walls
    Design News • 6 Aug 09
    Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009. >
  • Euro chic hotel for Jozi
    Design News • 5 Aug 09
    Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >
  • 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. >
  • Fela Kuti's Yellow Fever album designed by Ghariokwu Lemi.
    Cover activist
    Profiling • 1 Aug 09
    Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba. >
  • The indigenous style
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >
  • Interversion
    Design News • 1 Aug 09
    Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art. >
  • But is it “African”?
    Opinion • 1 Aug 09
    You’d think that, as a designer based in Africa, it would be easy to answer the question “What constitutes African design?” >
  • 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. >
  • Homework
    Opinion • 1 Aug 09
    Design Indaba asked creatives born on the continent which of their works was most influenced by their place of birth. >
  • Immortal be captured
    Profiling • 1 Aug 09
    Youssef Nabil tells Design Indaba about cinema, sleep, death and living between places. >
  • Hands-free viral
    Lookbook • 1 Aug 09
    Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile. >
  • 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. >

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