2009 Archive

  • Kentridge in five
    Reviews • 2 Dec 09
    William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist. >
  • Know rules to break them
    Reviews • 1 Dec 09
    Never Use White Type on a Black Background must be one of the most fun and quirky books one can read about design and fashion rules. >
  • The 10 000 hours manifesto
    Reviews • 1 Dec 09
    In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise. >
  • 50c business bible
    Reviews • 30 Nov 09
    The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008. >
  • CD: Shaka Won
    Reviews • 28 Nov 09
    After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won. >
  • CD: Mooi Besoedeling
    Reviews • 27 Nov 09
    For Zinkplaat's fourth album, designers Fanakalo.co.za created a scratch-off album cover. >
  • Gay architectural mockumentary
    Reviews • 1 Nov 09
    Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film. >
  • Jaunted Haunts Press
    Reviews • 5 Sep 09
    Righard Kapp recently released four albums on his garage label Jaunted Haunts Press. >
  • Yes, Pet Shop Boys by Mark Farrow
    Reviews • 3 Sep 09
    For the limited-edition of the Pet Shop Boys’s latest offering, Yes, Mark Farrow certainly responds in the affirmative. >
  • Picturing taste
    Reviews • 1 Sep 09
    Photographer Stan Engelbrecht’s German language follow-up to the successful African Salad, Das is(s)t Deutschland was recently launched. >
  • Photos full of marvel
    Reviews • 31 Aug 09
    With barely a human subject in sight, Roger Ballen’s newest book, Boarding House, makes his oeuvre even more intangible. >
  • Get a handle on SA architecture
    Reviews • 18 Aug 09
    Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture. >
  • Graphic novel goes down the gut
    Reviews • 12 Aug 09
    In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant. >
  • 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. >
  • Graphics beyond language
    Reviews • 28 Jul 09
    De Wereld Volgens Gorilla is an anthology of the best works that have appeared on the front page of De Volkskrant in Holland. >
  • Chic Afrique
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience. >
  • Koos
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released. >
  • Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Stefan Sagmeister designs the packaging for the collector's edition of David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative album. >
  • Big Idea
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Big Idea, by Sandu Cultural Media, is a compilation of winning works from seven international design competitions. >
  • As We Like It
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    As We Like It, published by Arnoldsche, covers the past 20 years of teacher and student work at the Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule. >
  • Eye of the beholder
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Miss Beautiful is a photographic investigation into South Africa’s pageants by Stan Engelbrecht, with supporting stories by Tamsen de Beer. >
  • Get green, already!
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Going Green by Simon Gear obliterates all silly excuses for not making simple changes that will benefit you, the planet and your fellows. >
  • Inside today’s pantry
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    crEATe is a timely overview of the state of our world’s pantry, researched and written by the Future Laboratory, published by Gestalaten. >
  • Can you taste when food is made with love?
    Reviews • 15 May 09
    Marije Vogelzang's debut monograph, Eat Love, poses some intriguing questions regarding food an the act of eating. >

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