Design News

Huggable couch

Design News • 3 Aug 09

Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China

Design News • 2 Aug 09

Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009. >
The disgrace of popularity

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >
Post-er-boy

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations. >
Hands-free viral

Lookbook • 1 Aug 09 • Sponsored Content

Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile. >
Paint the town with poetry

Design News • 1 Aug 09 • Sponsored Content

Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing. >
Interversion

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art. >
The indigenous style

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >
Installation in motion

Design News • 28 Jul 09

A large scale and site-specific installation by designer Clive Rundle entailed three models climbing out of a wall. >
Gorgeous mushroomed playroom

Design News • 27 Jul 09

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. >
SA design lights up the White House

Design News • 24 Jul 09

Two chandeliers by the Karoo-based Magpie Collective have been selected for the Obamas' private residence. >
Design Indaba Expo: Early Bird Bookings Now Open

Design News • 22 Jun 09

Come and be part of the Design Indaba Expo from 26 to 28 February 2010 and enjoy a discounted rate! >
Individuals in the crowd

Design News • 19 Jun 09 • Sponsored Content

Stiaan Louw Menswear will launch its Summer 2009 Collection at the Cape Town Fashion Week from August 13 to 16. >
Social nesting

Design News • 15 Jun 09

Cape Town creative consultancy Animal Farm have designed a human-sized Weaver's Nest, following the success of their sustainable Lite. >
Public design for Jozi

Design News • 14 Jun 09

Designer Adriaan Hugo from Dokter and Misses has stuck a dollop of design on the Transport Square outside Ellis Park. >
Hot metal

Design News • 14 Jun 09

Using three different production means, Tom Dixon explores metal in his British Steel exhibition. >
Community theatre for Eastern Cape

Design News • 14 Jun 09

The Eastern Cape is due to receive a new community theatre designed by Ryder Architecture and facilitated by Dodgy Clutch theatre company. >
Beat this bike!

Design News • 20 May 09 • Sponsored Content

Yves Béhar designs the Mission One Electric Motorcycle, the first electric sports bike that features uncompromised performance. >
Cape craft companies strut their stuff in Germany

Design News • 14 May 09

The Cape Craft and Design Institute took part on the dti stand at Ambiente, the annual German exhibition held in February. >
Reinvent yourself

Design News • 14 May 09

Apply now to have your creativity rebooted by Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker in their graphic design workshop from 20 to 25 July. >
Bey goes Brazilian

Design News • 14 May 09

Dutch studio Makkink & Bey reinterpreted five classic pieces by Brazilian design masters. >
Third time lucky for Art Vespa entrant

Design News • 14 May 09

After three attempts in four years, David Newenhuizen of BandC Group scooped first prize in the 2009 Art Vespa design competition. >
The architecture of fashion

Design News • 14 May 09 • Sponsored Content

SOUTH award finalist David West launched his Holbol Collection at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town during March. >
The hole ad

Design News • 14 May 09

For an outdoor campaign for power drill Makita, Saatchi & Saatchi made 20 000 precision drilled holes to create an image of the tool. >

From the Archives

Hopeful romantic

Q&A • 24 Oct 22

Blurring disciplinary boundaries, Cape Town-based creative Mikhailia Petersen builds intricate narratives in her photo series. >
Head above water

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kenyaa Mzee’s latest visual collection is exhibiting at Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town in October. >
Parking off

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Design Indaba, Beefeater Gin and I Love The Dough collaborated on turning a pavement into a community-minded parklet. >
Modern classics

Design News • 24 Oct 22

Iconic furniture design studio Herman Miller collaborated with Danish design brand HAY on a collection that reimagines the classic Eames collection. >

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