Articles

  • A Taste For Type
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research. >
  • Geografias ingenuas
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary. >
  • Afro Guchi
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Vlisco’s transformation into a leading fashion house is partly the result of competition from cheap Chinese imports. >
  • Creative nation
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem. >
  • Put your best foot forward
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker? >
  • Mechanical magic
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition. >
  • Fresh talent
    Design News • 1 Feb 07
    Taswald Pillay, from the University of Johannesburg, has scooped the prestigious PG Bison Interior Design Student of the Year Award. >
  • Make a big noise
    Design News • 11 Dec 06
    Dream up a non-traditional campaign idea for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. >
  • Sovereign beauty
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    Beverley Price’s unique jewellery is inspired by western as well as indigenous South African goldsmithing and ritual objects. >
  • Ring by Ida-elsje
    Africa adorned
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    Renowned jeweller Ida-elsje is in demand for her beautiful and highly personal engagement rings and other fine pieces. >
  • Oodles of doodles
    Lookbook • 1 Nov 06
    A personal journal produced over two years by Durban-based graphic designer Trevor Paul has reignited his creativity. >
  • Floral finesse
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    The interior design for SRK Legal Assistance in the Hague is a tribute to the Dutch flower. >
  • Blooming marvellous
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    Nine large-scale metal tree sculptures with colourful, rotating mid-sections have given new life to Juta Street in Johannesburg. >
  • Between Ownership & Belonging
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    Michael MacGarry writes about the South African exhibition at the 10th Venice International Architecture Biennale. >
  • Home comforts
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    Providing the right solution between cool design and peace of mind, ZenKaya is a new local concept for prefab living and working space. >
  • Stairway to heaven
    Design News • 1 Nov 06
    The first contemporary flagship store for Longchamp has been designed by Heatherwick Studio. >
  • Death star
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Top graduates of Design Academy Eindhoven recently exhibited eco-friendly "death designs" that are, quite literally, to die for. >
  • Don't call me babe
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    It may look cute and cuddly, but it's one of the planet's worst poo-llutants. >
  • Prophet of the city
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    The poet of technology, Denis Santachiara, marries art and design. >
  • Oog on Droog
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry. >
  • High five
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Mike Edmonds, an associate director of Arup, identified five of the world's most significant sustainable architecture projects. >
  • My architecture manifesto
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Foremost eco-architect Keith Struthers of Natural Architecture builds with sustainable materials like clay, wood, living plants and stone. >
  • Our products manifesto
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >
  • Zulu Mama Chair by Haldane Martin
    My furniture manifesto
    Design Frontiers • 1 Aug 06
    Haldane Martin's pieces say a lot about their creator. Here, their creator says a lot about his pieces. >
  • Mission rescue
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    Photographer Clinton Friedman is raising awareness about the illegally harvested medicinal plants that he saves from "muti" markets. >
  • Walk on the wild side
    Design News • 1 Aug 06
    A pro bono campaign by the award-winning Jupiter Drawing Room tells people to take a hike. >
  • Selling SA: View to a thrill
    Design News • 1 May 06
    HKLM uses a viewfinder to show brand South Africa at its best. >
  • Selling SA: Flying high
    Design News • 1 May 06
    Two Tone flights the national bird as a symbol of our country's future. >
  • Selling SA: Feel it!
    Design News • 1 May 06
    In branding South Africa, Switch delivers an icon that comes from the heart. >
  • High Priestman
    Design News • 1 May 06
    Paul Priestman's divine designs include super trains, gigantic aeroplanes and even a humble kitchen knife block. >

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