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  • Bob chair by Hella Jongerius for Kettal.
    Sitting on Bob
    Creative Work • 13 Oct 10
    Bob's not your uncle, but a new masculine garden chair designed by Hella Jongerius. >
  • SAYL Chair by fuseproject for Herman Miller.
    Suspension seating
    Creative Work • 13 Oct 10
    The SAYL Chair is stylish, ergonomic and eco-friendly. But isn’t that exactly what we expect from Yves Béhar and Herman Miller? >
  • Data-Driven by Karim Rashid.
    Digital abstraction
    Creative Work • 12 Oct 10
    Karim Rashid's latest series of abstract digital works combines his interests in art and scientific thinking. >
  • Tucker Viemeister.
    20Q: Tucker Viemeister
    Interviews • 12 Oct 10
    Tucker Viemeister likes to laugh with the people at Rockwell Group's Lab because design is a happy experience. >
  • The One Room Hotel by JAMESPLUMB (www.jamesplumb.co.uk), photo by Gisela Torres (www.giselatorres.co.uk).
    One of a kind
    Creative Work • 12 Oct 10
    A showcase of gorgeous interior design by day, a customised hotel room by night. The One Room Hotel is a unique design experience. >
  • Freak Show: Kueng Caputo.
    Freaks of design
    Creative Work • 11 Oct 10
    Freak Show is an exhibition of selected designers that challenge the system and consider strategies for design (dis)engagement. >
  • Off-Axis Watch by Eric Janssen.
    Watch with a twist
    Creative Work • 11 Oct 10
    The Off-Axis Watch removes the need to bend one's elbow when looking at the time. >
  • Freshlyground: Radio Africa.
    Freshly African
    Point of View • 11 Oct 10
    Freshlyground's new album Radio Africa is fresh (obviously), fun and fabulously local! >
  • Diamant coffin by Jacob Jensen Design.
    For eternity
    Creative Work • 10 Oct 10
    The new Diamant series of coffins and urns: For a more dignified farewell... >
  • Wall panels by Anne Kyyrö Quinn.
    Whispering walls
    Creative Work • 9 Oct 10
    Anne Kyyrö Quinn’s unique designs may qualify as the world’s most beautiful sound-proof wall panels. >
  • City Bowl by Maria van Rooyen.
    Homeward bound
    Creative Work • 9 Oct 10
    With coin rubbings as the medium for large drawings, Maria van Rooyen explores issues of homesickness in her exhibition. >
  • The Country Trainer. Photo: Camper.
    Camping out
    Creative Work • 8 Oct 10
    Camper and Jasper. It evens sounds comfortable. Now see the shoe that resulted from the collaboration. >
  • Cardborigami shelter.
    Cardboard shelter
    Creative Work • 8 Oct 10
    An origami-inspired corrugated cardboard shelter is a great temporary solution for the urban homeless and victims of disaster. >
  • Haldane Martin.
    20Q: Haldane Martin
    Interviews • 7 Oct 10
    When he's not designing, Haldane Martin is probably out mountain biking. He also reveals something of his latest project, a bed system. >
  • Domestic Ponds.
    Ponds for ecosystems
    Creative Work • 7 Oct 10
    Domestic Ponds explores the benefits of ecosystems and looks at creative ways of bringing them into the home. >
  • Weapons for shovels.
    Gun free, tree rich
    Creative Work • 7 Oct 10
    A design campaign in Mexico called for the voluntary donation of weapons, and turned them into useful shovels with which to plant trees. >
  • Containing hope
    Creative Work • 7 Oct 10
    Tsai Design Studio's repurposed freight containers are bringing joy to poor communities in the Western Cape. >
  • Beer crate pavilion. Photo: Serge Brison.
    Built from beer (crates)
    Creative Work • 6 Oct 10
    Architects SHSH used beer crates for a temporary pavilion celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition. >
  • Bottle Form Ball by Heath Nash.
    Friends with business benefits
    Creative Work • 5 Oct 10
    A new non-profit initiative is empowering local craft and design businesses for commercial success by teaching them valuable skills. >
  • Heath Nash.
    20Q: Heath Nash
    Interviews • 5 Oct 10
    Heath Nash doesn't need much of an introduction. He makes really beautiful things with recycled materials, and often wonders "but why?". >
  • Free sneakers!
    Creative Work • 5 Oct 10
    Get a free pair of really funky sneakers when you purchase your cassette tape copy of Animal Collective's unreleased songs. Now! >
  • Zulu Mama chair by Haldane Martin. Photo: Justin Patrick.
    Haldane Martin now in Jozi
    Creative Work • 5 Oct 10
    Brace yourselves Joburg design lovers. Haldane Martin has opened a showroom in Parktown North. >
  • Southern Right Vessel.
    Swimming success
    Creative Work • 4 Oct 10
    A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam. >
  • Punkt by Jasper Morrison.
    Pick up the phone!
    Creative Work • 3 Oct 10
    The Punkt DP 01 is a funky new phone design by Jasper Morrison for a Swiss consumer electronics band. >

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