Articles

  • Nampak packaging design challenge
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge >
  • Cattle heads ceramics competition
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >
  • Four legs good, two legs bad
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others. >
  • Draw and draw again
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg. >
  • The gospel truth
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >
  • Witty wallpaper
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness. >
  • Designer rubbish
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town. >
  • Waste worthy of art
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
  • New fair trade shop in South Africa
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November. >
  • Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design. >
  • And now for the black blob
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky. >
  • The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials. >
  • Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona. >
  • Travelling on trains with kids
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >
  • Music fun in a packet
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK. >
  • Exquisite scales
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design. >
  • Tees for trees
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. >
  • Meta/physical
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Belgian choreographer Frederic Flamand and Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana give life to Ovid's Metamorphosis poems. >
  • Gadget: Purpose wanted
    Design News • 19 Aug 08
    The Chumby, a real geek's toy, is an internet-connected touchscreen device. It's thoroughly open-source and runs widgets on Linux software. >
  • Crime unleashes a reptile
    Design News • 19 Aug 08
    Cape Town illustrator and graphic novelist Luis Tolosana has unleashed the first episode of his self-drawn, written and funded Iguana-Man. >
  • The origin of light
    Design News • 18 Aug 08
    Ingo Maurer unveiled his egg-shaped light for Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio della Spezia, declaring the egg to be the perfect form. >
  • Durban design headed for Berlin
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Durban's artSPACE gallery hosted the second annual Bigwood exhibition during July, featuring more than 40 designers. >
  • But sausages grow on trees?
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Marije Vogelzang’s first solo exhibition, Fuel, at Mama in Rotterdam from May 21 to July 6 included cuddly sausages. >
  • Egg and green beans
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Durban's Bean Bag Bahia Beach Club, sibling to Bean Bag Bohemia and Deli, features an up-market restaurant café as well as a deli. >
  • Brick-and-mortar design shop
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books. >
  • Edelkoort leaves Eindhoven
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Li Edelkoort resigned as chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland after 10 years in this role, but will remain affiliated. >
  • Cape Town librarians vote Kaplicky
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Jan Kaplicky's design for Prague's new national library won the state competition in October last year, causing a political maelstrom. >
  • Fashion week frenzy
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    The fashion week season saw fashion shows galore delighting audiences at the Durban, Johannesburg and then Cape Town Fashion Weeks. >
  • Green house for green skin
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works. >
  • Pecha Kucha in SA
    Design News • 12 Aug 08
    South Africa's first Pecha Kucha design open-mic event presented eight local creatives, hosted at the Whatiftheworld Gallery. >

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