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Lookbook • 3 Feb 09 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Brett Rubin, fashion stylist Carey Watson and decor stylist Kate Boswell take Design Indaba Expo produce beyond the present. >
Design Indaba launches product range

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Spawned by a passion to create quality design at affordable costs, Design Indaba launches its Free Range at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >
Head start on 2010 fever

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Michael Souter is adding to the 2010 fever with his “makarabas” (sculpted hard hats) that fuse urban culture, design and sporting passion. >
Dead bull

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Designer and Google creative director, Ji Lee’s illustration for Portfolio magazine sums up the economic times. >
Winners turn the table

Design News • 1 Feb 09

The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table. >
Dog tag for dating

Design News • 1 Feb 09 • Sponsored Content

Ever sat at work and wondered what your pooch is up to? Put your idle thoughts to rest with SNIF, developed by Readymade in Pretoria. >
Horse saddle redesigned after 200 years

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries. >
Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever. >
Red and blue reconcile online

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”. >
Top SA industrial design

Design News • 1 Feb 09

A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008. >
Dreaming in kid-colour

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design. >
Cool beer city

Design News • 1 Feb 09 • Sponsored Content

Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema. >
Bracelets with megabyte

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage. >
The blue house

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs. >
Eight ball bling

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls. >
Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town

Design News • 1 Feb 09

South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September. >
Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >
Harsh geometry for plants

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >
All hail Gazelle!

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >
Final year clearance sale

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner. >
Woven islands

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >
Design cul-cha

Design News • 1 Feb 09

“Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition. >
Refashion, remodel, rephotograph

Design News • 1 Feb 09

All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
Rex shows at the World Bank

Design News • 1 Feb 09

The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >

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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