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The green pink party

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking / Product Design

Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007. >

2 Feb 08
Only you can prevent forest fires

Design News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department. >

2 Feb 08
Winter fashion for cool cats

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008. >

2 Feb 08
Not quite the garden variety

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow. >

2 Feb 08
Hani Rashid and the sun king

Design News > Product Design

The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection. >

2 Feb 08
It's a pot, doll!

Design News > Product Design

Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo. >

2 Feb 08
Carrol Boyes call for entries

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >

2 Feb 08
Max normal for kids

Design News > Product Design / Craft / Creative Economy / Music & Sound Design

Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >

2 Feb 08
Riddimtometry

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >

1 Feb 08
Don't feed the animators

Design News > Film & Animation

Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >

1 Feb 08
Electric wheels for SA

Design News > Design Thinking / Urban & Landscape Design

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >

11 Jan 08
Art container

Design News > Craft / Architecture & Interiors

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >

15 Nov 07
Form follows food

Design News > Food Design / Architecture & Interiors

Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >

2 Nov 07
Monument to the now

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >

2 Nov 07
Africa Remix for design

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design / Graphic Design & Illustration / Product Design / African Design

The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >

2 Nov 07
Not out of the woods

Design News > Design Thinking

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >

2 Nov 07
Volume control

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >

2 Nov 07
1 000 lights make green work

Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >

2 Nov 07
Wire dressed up as lamb

Design News > Craft

“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >

2 Nov 07
Metal muscle

Design News > Product Design

Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >

2 Nov 07
Porcelain menagerie of memories

Design News > Craft / Product Design

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >

2 Nov 07
Coming out in shells

Design News > Product Design / Craft

Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >

2 Nov 07
The public secret of avatars

Design News > Design Thinking

Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >

2 Nov 07
Five-day wooden house

Design News > Architecture & Interiors / Design Thinking

Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >

2 Nov 07

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