Design Indaba Archive

  • USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite
    Bracelets with megabyte
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage. >
  • The blue house
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs. >
  • Eight ball bling
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls. >
  • Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September. >
  • Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >
  • Harsh geometry for plants
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >
  • All hail Gazelle!
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >
  • Final year clearance sale
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner. >
  • Woven islands
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >
  • Design cul-cha
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    “Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition. >
  • Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
  • Rex shows at the World Bank
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >
  • Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin. >
  • Frame the family tree
    Design News • 1 Feb 09
    Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”. >
  • Building bible
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    It was with much anticipation that the updated Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture was received. >
  • Pure not poor
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    “Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa. >
  • SA in graphic prime
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry. >
  • The Interior World of Tom Dixon
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish. >
  • The Art of Romance
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    The Art of Romance takes you on a journey through the cheesy history of Mills & Boons and Harlequin book covers. >
  • Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts. >
  • Doodle for a Difference
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings. >
  • Futures to believe in
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Dion Chang has put together a series of essays on the way the world will be very soon in The 2009 Flux Trend Review. >
  • Not just an album design pioneer
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design. >
  • Citizen of the World
    Reviews • 1 Feb 09
    Internationally celebrated jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça has released his second Moreira Project album, Citizen of the World. >

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