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Creative nation

Design News • 1 Feb 07

Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem. >
Put your best foot forward

Design News • 1 Feb 07

Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker? >
Mechanical magic

Design News • 1 Feb 07 • Sponsored Content

A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition. >
Fresh talent

Design News • 1 Feb 07 • Sponsored Content

Taswald Pillay, from the University of Johannesburg, has scooped the prestigious PG Bison Interior Design Student of the Year Award. >
Make a big noise

Design News • 11 Dec 06

Dream up a non-traditional campaign idea for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. >
Sovereign beauty

Design News • 1 Nov 06

Beverley Price’s unique jewellery is inspired by western as well as indigenous South African goldsmithing and ritual objects. >
Africa adorned

Design News • 1 Nov 06 • Sponsored Content

Renowned jeweller Ida-elsje is in demand for her beautiful and highly personal engagement rings and other fine pieces. >
Oodles of doodles

Lookbook • 1 Nov 06 • Sponsored Content

A personal journal produced over two years by Durban-based graphic designer Trevor Paul has reignited his creativity. >
Floral finesse

Design News • 1 Nov 06 • Sponsored Content

The interior design for SRK Legal Assistance in the Hague is a tribute to the Dutch flower. >
Blooming marvellous

Design News • 1 Nov 06

Nine large-scale metal tree sculptures with colourful, rotating mid-sections have given new life to Juta Street in Johannesburg. >
Between Ownership & Belonging

Design News • 1 Nov 06 • Sponsored Content

Michael MacGarry writes about the South African exhibition at the 10th Venice International Architecture Biennale. >
Home comforts

Design News • 1 Nov 06

Providing the right solution between cool design and peace of mind, ZenKaya is a new local concept for prefab living and working space. >
Stairway to heaven

Design News • 1 Nov 06

The first contemporary flagship store for Longchamp has been designed by Heatherwick Studio. >
Death star

Design News • 1 Aug 06

Top graduates of Design Academy Eindhoven recently exhibited eco-friendly "death designs" that are, quite literally, to die for. >
Don't call me babe

Design News • 1 Aug 06 • Sponsored Content

It may look cute and cuddly, but it's one of the planet's worst poo-llutants. >
Prophet of the city

Design News • 1 Aug 06

The poet of technology, Denis Santachiara, marries art and design. >
Oog on Droog

Design News • 1 Aug 06 • Sponsored Content

Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry. >
High five

Design News • 1 Aug 06 • Sponsored Content

Mike Edmonds, an associate director of Arup, identified five of the world's most significant sustainable architecture projects. >
My architecture manifesto

Design News • 1 Aug 06 • Sponsored Content

Foremost eco-architect Keith Struthers of Natural Architecture builds with sustainable materials like clay, wood, living plants and stone. >
Our products manifesto

Design News • 1 Aug 06 • Sponsored Content

KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products. >
Mission rescue

Design News • 1 Aug 06

Photographer Clinton Friedman is raising awareness about the illegally harvested medicinal plants that he saves from "muti" markets. >
Walk on the wild side

Design News • 1 Aug 06

A pro bono campaign by the award-winning Jupiter Drawing Room tells people to take a hike. >
Selling SA: View to a thrill

Design News • 1 May 06

HKLM uses a viewfinder to show brand South Africa at its best. >
Selling SA: Flying high

Design News • 1 May 06

Two Tone flights the national bird as a symbol of our country's future. >

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Tapping in

Design News • 3 Oct 22

Austrian industrial design company Salz tackles water heating in emerging markets with a solar water heater. >
A woven story

Q&A • 3 Oct 22

2022 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Leila Walter used a life-changing experience in India as inspiration for her own weaving studio. >
On the seashore

Design News • 3 Oct 22

A collaborative design from Barcode Architects and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the Sluishuis residential building slants over the water in Amsterdam. >
London Calling

Design News • 3 Oct 22

The 20th edition of the London Design Festival took place across 12 design districts in the city. >

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