Articles

  • Story telling
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time. >
  • Wining and dining
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed. >
  • Floating orchestra
    Design News • 18 Oct 11
    The gravity-defying Floating Orchestra is a different kind of musical experience with the user in the role of a supernatural conductor. >
  • Knitting with bacteria
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    The Textured Self by Sonja Bäumel uses bacteria to demonstrate how different forms of life work together to make the human body function. >
  • New rules of work
    Design News • 17 Oct 11
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Moving craft
    Design News • 16 Oct 11
    BarberOsgerby's "Ascent" collection of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London is inspired by the duo's interest in moving craft. >
  • Save the post office
    Design News • 15 Oct 11
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Sensory dining
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Secret Sensory Suppers take the dining experience to a new ritualistic level, exploring the relationship between food, sight, scent and sound. >
  • Bouroullec retrospective
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Bivouac is the first major retrospective of the work of the Bouroullec Brothers at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. >
  • Usuals collection
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    Usuals is a range of domestic products by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe that looks to simplicity and functionality. >
  • 10 Years of Hat-trick
    Design News • 14 Oct 11
    In Brief is a small book, with lots of pages, celebrating Hat-trick's work of the past 10 years. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >
  • Climate change and performance art
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    GIPCA's Hot Water Festival considers the conversation on climate change that needs to happen between scientists and performing artists. >
  • Birds of a feather
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Diamond magnate Laurence Graff has marked the maturation of the Delaire Graff Estate with an art installation of birds. >
  • Micro-Nutrient Couture by Emily Crane.
    Cultivated couture
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    How about growing high-end fashion in your kitchen? Emily Crane's Micro-Nutrient Couture is exotic and edible. >
  • Green as glass
    Design News • 13 Oct 11
    Glasshouse is the ideal urban greenhouse, and it doubles up as a functional pendant lamp. >
  • The Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Du Noon township
    Educational integration
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    The Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Du Noon township serves as a beacon of aspiration, highlighting the importance of education. >
  • Safe bike
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >
  • Infographic wine label
    Design News • 12 Oct 11
    The labels for the wines of an Australian winery feature an infograph with unique information about the vineyards, vintage conditions and ferments. >
  • Fear.Less by Daniel Ting Chong and Jordan Metcalf.
    Month ten
    Design News • 11 Oct 11
    The October Show at Salon91 in Cape Town presents the work of an all-male creative cast. >
  • Urban alternatives
    Design News • 11 Oct 11
    The Vertical Village looks at ways that East Asian cities may be able to expand and develop while maintaining traditional village qualities. >
  • Circular films
    Design News • 10 Oct 11
    The 360 Project uses 48 cameras, arranged in a circle, to explore the possibilities of combining stills and moving images. >
  • Collage paintings
    Design News • 10 Oct 11
    Micro Cluster Picnic is a collection of collage-like paintings by Asha Zero that interrogates the relationship between the real and the representation. >
  • Japan: Tradition. Innovation by Nendo.
    Tradition & innovation
    Design News • 10 Oct 11
    An exhibition designed by Nendo at the Canadian Museum of Innovation explores the relationship between Japanese culture and design. >
  • Alphabet 2 by N9ve.
    Letter forms
    Design News • 10 Oct 11
    ABC comes to life with Alphabet 2, a project that creates a stop-motion animation with each letter of the alphabet. >
  • Sustainable tower
    Design News • 8 Oct 11
    The Bionic Arch by Vincent Callebaut Architects proposes a multi-purpose sustainable tower for the Taichung Gateway City in Taiwan. >
  • School centre
    Design News • 7 Oct 11
    SAOTA's Mankgaile Primary School in Limpopo actively involved the community in the building of a school that also serves as a community centre. >
  • Imperial branding
    Design News • 7 Oct 11
    Hat-trick worked on the rebranding of the Imperial War Museum in the UK, aiming to make the visitor experience more engaging. >
  • Digital brawn smackdown
    Design News • 6 Oct 11
    Digital Edge Live on 14 October will see local mavericks debating the future of marketing and digital platforms. Bob Garfield delivers the keynote. >
  • Alarming relief
    Design News • 6 Oct 11
    Sales of Jasper Morrison's limited-edition red-and-white AC01 Punkt Alarm Clock to aid reconstruction of earthquake-affected Japan. >

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