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Interpretations of Africa: Football, Art and Design celebrates Puma's new football kit, inspired by African culture and history, for Puma's football teams. >

8 Nov 11
Food edit

Design News > Food Design

Photoshop for your food? The iPlate lets you play around with your food, much like you would play around with pictures in image editing software. >

8 Nov 11
Climate simulation

Design News > Design Thinking

SunGlacier is a "climate simulation" prototype that explores ways of making ice in the desert. >

7 Nov 11
Health function

Design News > Product Design

Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health. >

7 Nov 11
Jusi flavours

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, William Kentridge and David Goldblatt are some of the artists whose work features in the i-Jusi Portfolio Number 2. >

7 Nov 11
Wild for animals

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Winner of the Best Graphic Design award at the Dutch Design Awards Rop van Mierlo tells about his Wilde Dieren book project. >

6 Nov 11
State/status

Design News > Interaction Design

Kudzanai Chiurai's State of the Nation exhibition unpacks the notion of "state" using art, photography, performance and videos. >

5 Nov 11
Mad comedy

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Off-beat, surreal and funny but that’s what one would expect from Noel Fielding and a book with the title The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton. >

5 Nov 11
Shining young stars

Design News > Interaction Design

Recognising artistic excellence in the visual and performing arts, the winners of the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award were announced recently. >

3 Nov 11
Kitty Hawk 2.0

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Is it a bird or is it a plane? It's the E-volo Multicopter, a helicopter-like craft for cruising the space above the ground. >

3 Nov 11
Map away

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

MAPS is a wonderful collection of cartographical pieces created by Paula Scher over the past 20 years. >

3 Nov 11
Who's afraid?

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Vampires in the desert and sightings of Kurt Cobain in the Karoo? Could it be? Who's afraid? Van Coke Kartel's latest graphic novel investigates. >

3 Nov 11
Looking swell

Design News > Product Design

An iPad case by Swell accessories with a bamboo and leather look is rather... well, swell. >

2 Nov 11
Growing, patiently

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Patience, we know, is a great virtue. It could also be the key to a more sustainable way of building. Visiondivision explore. >

2 Nov 11
Publically functional

Design News > Product Design

The Western Cape Furniture Design Competition is calling on designers to create beautiful, functional public furniture pieces with alien wood. >

2 Nov 11
Period pains

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Zanele Muholi's "Isilumo siyaluma" collection of work looks at the stigmas and violence black lesbians in South Africa face. >

2 Nov 11
Black again

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Black Pearl, a modern reinterpretation of an old property in Rotterdam, was awarded the Public Award at the Dutch Design Awards recently. >

1 Nov 11
Creative freedom

Design News > Design Thinking

The Freedom to Create Prize Festival, which aims to empower grassroots organisations through the arts, will be taking place in Cape Town this November. >

1 Nov 11
Modular makings

Design News > Product Design

The Clik Lamp and Treze Library bookshelf by Katarq encourages the user to interact with the products by easily assembling it. >

1 Nov 11
Classroom of hope

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

A school in Klapmuts outside Stellenbosch is more than a place of learning for children. It is a beacon of hope for a community. >

31 Oct 11
Critical mass

Design News > Product Design

What a mass! Ten designers considered the methods, material and manufacturing of mass production. >

31 Oct 11
African roots

Design News > Craft

Stylish and practical, Quamta's range of leather accessories are ideal for the modern individual. >

31 Oct 11
Paper creations

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Maverick filmmaker David Lynch's collection of drawings, Works on Paper, reveal something about his creative processes. >

28 Oct 11
Material forms

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Lorenzo Nassimbeni recently took part in an exhibition that looked at the creative handling of materials for quality and sustainability. >

28 Oct 11

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