2014 Archive

  • T Table by Woltemade. Image: Woltemade
    Emerging Creative Q&A: Woltemade
    Design News • 2 Jan 14
    The Emerging Creatives programme provides up-and-coming designers with a wonderful launch pad. We chat to Woltemade to find out what they have been up to. >
  • Jaime Hayon's New York is Miami cabinet. Image: Jaime Hayon.
    Fun and fantastical
    Design News • 4 Jan 14
    Spanish designer Jaime Hayón reflects on the past ten years’ worth of work in his retrospective exhibition Funtastico. >
  • The Hanataba chopsticks by Nendo. Image: Akihiro Yoshida
    Pick-up sticks
    Design News • 5 Jan 14
    Japan-based Nendo redesigns an ancient traditional eating utensil, the chopstick, transforming people’s interaction with this everyday object. >
  • Frozen Garden by Marcel Wanders for Bisazza. Image: Bisazza.
    Vertical garden
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Dutch designer Marcel Wanders creates an interior garden of ceramic flowers with his wall cladding design, Frozen Garden, for Bisazza’s 2014 collection. >
  • Beat Brass lamp by Tom Dixon.
    Brass vessels
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Tom Dixon takes inspiration from traditional vessels used to carry water for his latest collection of authentic brass pendant lamps. >
  • MARBLES interactive installation by Daan Roosegaarde.
    Marbles of light
    Design News • 6 Jan 14
    Daan Roosegaarde's eye-catching MARBLES installation will illuminate the 2014 Route du Nord Light exhibition with bright and bold colours. >
  • Pichulik Spring/Summer 2014 Collection
    Lookbook • 8 Jan 14
    Pichulik's 2014 Spring/Summer collection celebrates the seaside glamour of the golden age on the French Riviera in the 50s and 60s. >
  • Nelly Ben Hayoun appointed WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences.
    Cosmic experiences
    Design News • 8 Jan 14
    Experiential designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has been appointed as WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences. >
  • Watch Flower by Bjarke Ingels.
    Architecture in bloom
    Design News • 9 Jan 14
    Bjarke Ingels's Watch Flower promenade structure mimics and draws on the natural process of a growing flower. >
  • TEN Collection by Fotolia.
    Digital art competition
    Design News • 10 Jan 14
    International stock photo agency, Fotolia launches an international digital art competition as part of their TEN campaign. >
  • Organik luggage collection by Karim Rashid.
    Eccentric travelling
    Design News • 11 Jan 14
    Bright, bold and hypnotic... Karim Rashid's "Organik" collection of luggage is sure to make travellers stand out. >
  • Ghost by Martí Guixé for Nanimarquina. Image: Nanimarquina.
    Ghostly apparitions
    Design News • 11 Jan 14
    "Ghost" is Catalonian interior and industrial designer, Martí Guixé's new take on classic Kerman rug design. >
  • Theory interior design by Nendo.
    Go with the flow
    Design News • 12 Jan 14
    Nendo takes inspiration from city streets and movement patterns for the design of interiors for the retail spaces of fashion label Theory. >
  • Tool the Perpetual Calendar by Tom Dixon.
    Calendar accessories
    Design News • 12 Jan 14
    Tom Dixon looks to sustainable design with his Tool the Perpetual Calendar, which is made from stainless steel and can be reused year after year. >
  • Freddy Sam's Madiba mural from the original photo by Bob Gosani © BAHA foundation.
    Madiba memorial mural
    Design News • 13 Jan 14
    Cape Town-based street artist Freddy Sam has unveiled a ten-storey tall mural of Madiba in the inner city of Johannesburg. >
  • MegaFon Sochi Winter Olympics by Asif Khan.
    Kinetic façade
    Design News • 14 Jan 14
    Asif Khan has designed “a Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. >
  • Bold by Hella Jongerius for Danskina.
    Woven wares
    Design News • 14 Jan 14
    Dutch product designer and new design director of Danskina, Hella Jongerius shows a new collection of rugs at imm cologne 2014. >
  • The Silent Village furniture collection by Brynjar Sigurðarson.
    Fishing for furniture
    Design News • 15 Jan 14
    Brynjar Sigurðarson uses an Icelandic fishing technique as the inspiration for his "The Silent Village Collection" of furniture. >
  • "In the Making" exhibition by BarberOsgerby for the Design Museum London. Image: Mirko Krizanovic.
    Objects in the making
    Design News • 15 Jan 14
    BarberOsgerby has curated Design Museum's "In the Making" exhibition that showcases a variety of objects halfway through their manufacturing process. >
  • 'Club Céramique', A0-sized screenprinted poster for NAiM / Bureau Europa (Maastricht, NL), 2010
    Experimental Jetset portfolio
    Lookbook • 15 Jan 14
    Design Indaba Conference 2014 speakers, Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio. Here's a quick snapshot of some of their work. >
  • Rois de la Forêt collection vase by Marcel Wanders for Baccarat.
    Intricate crystal
    Design News • 16 Jan 14
    Marcel Wanders has designed a striking vase for Baccarat, made from crystal and marble. >
  • 2014 Emerging Creatives.
    2014 Emerging Creatives lookbook – Part 1
    Lookbook • 17 Jan 14
    Design Indaba presents the 2014 Emerging Creatives and a sneak peek into their creative portfolios. >
  • Yasiin Bey.
    Tune into Africa
    Design News • 17 Jan 14
    International renowned hip hop artist and actor Yasiin Bey (a.k.a. Mos Def) launches a special music project “Live In Africa” with live once-off performances. >
  • Abbott Miller has designed environmental graphics for Tadao Ando's new arts center at the Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico.
    Walk this way
    Design News • 18 Jan 14
    Abbott Miller designs a fresh system of signage and wayfinding for the Centro Roberto Garza Sada arts centre at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. >

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