June 2010 Archive

  • Image: Frederik Busch
    Three little pigs
    Design News • 1 Jun 10
    Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter. >
  • Twisted Ice-Cream Lamp by Chad Peterson.
    Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment
    Design News • 1 Jun 10
    Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson. >
  • Alcazar fine woods at +20 Egypt Design
    Egyptian creativity on the design map
    Design News • 2 Jun 10
    The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design. >
  • B L K b o o k. Photo: Brett Rubin. Styling: Nicole van Heerden.
    Leather satchels and literacy
    Design News • 2 Jun 10
    From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion. >
  • Energy Efficient Lighting Design Competition winner.
    Switched on competition
    Design News • 2 Jun 10
    Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time. >
  • Biennale of Sydney corporate identity. Image: Barnbrook.
    Modular graphics
    Design News • 2 Jun 10
    The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook. >
  • Li Edelkoort presents a future past
    Design News • 2 Jun 10
    A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future. >
  • World Cup calendar poster by David Watson.
    The final countdown
    Design News • 3 Jun 10
    With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster. >
  • Qlocktwo Spanish Cherry Cake.
    No tick, no tock
    Design News • 3 Jun 10
    The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic. >
  • The Grolsch magnetic Airstream trailer.
    Magnetic trailer park attraction
    Design News • 4 Jun 10
    There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley. >
  • Typographic Trees by Gordon Young.
    Writing on trees
    Design News • 7 Jun 10
    Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art? >
  • Grey Derivations: Dressoir (2010).
    Young and grey
    Design News • 7 Jun 10
    Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame. >
  • Designer Isabelle Carpenter, Zizo Beda, Bridget Masinga and designer Kelly Fisher. Photo: Natalie Payne.
    Fashionable football fever
    Design News • 7 Jun 10
    SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories. >
  • Strike by Lynette Bester, 2010.
    Milestones and goalposts
    Design News • 8 Jun 10
    In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives. >
  • The Skurweberge along Witzenburg Valley, 2008.
    One man band
    Design News • 9 Jun 10
    Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits. >
  • Africa. Image via Cherryflava.com.
    Fiction or football
    Design News • 10 Jun 10
    Flags, vuvuzelas and bright clothing everywhere. It's hard not to be infected by footie fever. Am I Collective's posters add to the joy. >
  • Delta Outdoor Shower
    Shower power
    Design News • 12 Jun 10
    The Delta Outdoor Shower is French designer, Inga Sempé’s latest creation. >
  • Legends of Echo
    Legends of Echo
    Design News • 12 Jun 10
    The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game. >
  • Danielle Zurovcik demonstrates how to use the negative pressure pump to seal an arm wound. Photo: Melanie Gonick.
    Design to heal wounds
    Design News • 13 Jun 10
    An improved negative-pressure system that doesn’t use batteries or electricity could help to heal many wounds in developing countries. >
  • Globe Chair. Photo: Justin Patrick.
    Second chances
    Design News • 13 Jun 10
    Haldane Martin’s re-edition prototype of the Globe Chair is making this everyday household item a must-have. >
  • Apartment 50. Photo: Studio Bouroullec + FLC ADAGP.
    Fine and furnished
    Design News • 14 Jun 10
    The Bouroullec Brothers have created an interesting apartment interior for one of the units in the famous Radiant City in France. >
  • Cratefan in Newtown, Joburg.
    Can-do creativity with the Cratefan
    Design News • 14 Jun 10
    It bears a slight resemblance to the Incredible Hulk but the Cratefan in Jozi and Cape Town is no ordinary superhero. >
  • Favela paintings by Haas&Hahn.
    Positive painting
    Design News • 14 Jun 10
    A coat of paint can go a long way in making a colourful and empowering difference in the lives of poor communities. >
  • GPII logo by Yves Béhar.
    From cradle to consumer
    Design News • 14 Jun 10
    The Green Products Innovation Institute marks the historic launch of a non-profit organisation promoting sustainable design. >

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