2009 Archive

Community theatre for Eastern Cape

Design News • 14 Jun 09

The Eastern Cape is due to receive a new community theatre designed by Ryder Architecture and facilitated by Dodgy Clutch theatre company. >
Hot metal

Design News • 14 Jun 09

Using three different production means, Tom Dixon explores metal in his British Steel exhibition. >
Public design for Jozi

Design News • 14 Jun 09

Designer Adriaan Hugo from Dokter and Misses has stuck a dollop of design on the Transport Square outside Ellis Park. >
Social nesting

Design News • 15 Jun 09

Cape Town creative consultancy Animal Farm have designed a human-sized Weaver's Nest, following the success of their sustainable Lite. >
Individuals in the crowd

Design News • 19 Jun 09

Stiaan Louw Menswear will launch its Summer 2009 Collection at the Cape Town Fashion Week from August 13 to 16. >
Design Indaba Expo: Early Bird Bookings Now Open

Design News • 22 Jun 09

Come and be part of the Design Indaba Expo from 26 to 28 February 2010 and enjoy a discounted rate! >
SA design lights up the White House

Design News • 24 Jul 09

Two chandeliers by the Karoo-based Magpie Collective have been selected for the Obamas' private residence. >
Gorgeous mushroomed playroom

Design News • 27 Jul 09

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. >
Installation in motion

Design News • 28 Jul 09

A large scale and site-specific installation by designer Clive Rundle entailed three models climbing out of a wall. >
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. >
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. >
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 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. >
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. >
Huggable couch

Design News • 3 Aug 09

Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
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. >
Tribal iconography

Design News • 9 Aug 09

Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London. >
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 >
An eye on power

Design News • 13 Aug 09

The Wattcher is a design object that displays the total electricity consumption of your home in a beautiful and meaningful way. >

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