Design News

  • Mini Inflatables
    Design News • 19 Aug 11
    The new Mini Inflatables hold the promise of hours of fun in the sun. >
  • Eat Play Grow Table. Photographed in Corkellis House.
    Grow & learn
    Design News • 18 Aug 11
    Get kids excited about helping out in the kitchen with the Eat Play Grow table that allows them to grow and prepare their own food. >
  • Black
    Design News • 18 Aug 11
    With RCA Black, the Royal College of Art presents the first-ever exhibition of work by students of African and African Caribbean descent. >
  • Eco Automatic by Ahhaproject.
    Eco wash
    Design News • 18 Aug 11
    Eco Automatic is a kitchen sink and dishwasher in one, elminating the need to pack everything neatly into the machine. >
  • Scenes from Gulp. Photo: Aardman.
    Gulp!
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    Unbelievable – the world’s largest stop-motion animation, shot on a camera phone! >
  • WorldWide Carpets by David Hanauer.
    Carpet magic
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    Images from Google Earth make for compelling rug designs with David Hanaeur's WorldWide Carpets. >
  • Stictching Concrete by Florian Schmid.
    Concrete stools
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    Strong, comfortable and not bad looking, Florian Schmid's Stitching Concrete stools are great for indoor and outdoor use. >
  • Designs in sawdust
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    Collect sawdust, add resin, press into mould and voila - you have very interesting furnture pieces, as Yoav Avinoam discovered. >
  • The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher. Published by Phaidon.
    Mind Over Matter
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    An exhibition at Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Alan Fletcher on the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways. >
  • Record speaker. Photo: Mark Cocksedge.
    Live transformation
    Design News • 16 Aug 11
    Designer Paul Cocksedge transforms old LP records into smartphone sound amplifiers. >
  • Photo: Leo Veger.
    Design can-do
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    The inaugural What Design Can Do conference brought together designers, thinkers and doers working in a transformative space. >
  • DIY Hybrids
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    With Hybrids, Brazilian designer Rodrigo Almeida explores material culture, craftmanship and tradition. >
  • Tracking change
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    Rapid rail travel aboard the Gautrain has the potential to revitalise Johannesburg and Pretoria as thriving urban environments. >
  • (In)formal connections
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    Jorge Mario Jáuregui works to integrate Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with the formal city, using articulation through public spaces. >
  • Dignified chaos
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    The most populous city in China, Shanghai is experiencing urban development and cultural renewal on a grand scale. >
  • Shadowless
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    No Shadow is a collection of sculptures by Makoto Tojiki that uses light as a form of expression. >
  • Soho Synagogue. Photo: John M Hall.
    Soho Synagogue
    Design News • 15 Aug 11
    Soho Synagogue by Dror Benshetrit brings design direction and interventions to a Jewish place of worship. >
  • Rememberme. Photo: Tania Feghali.
    Never forgotten
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    Can't get rid of old clothes for sentimental reasons? Why not use it to craft a chair? Like the Rememberme chair. >
  • Zeilgalerie. Photo: Emanuel Raab. Copyright: 3deluxe.
    Public light
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    A light installation on the façade of the Zeilgalerie in Frankfurt hopes to make this building an architectural highlight in the city. >
  • Modern reinvention
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    A design concept by Tsai Design Studio and Jakupa Architects and Urban Designers draws on historical relationships to modernise a building. >
  • Faena by Nandipha Mntambo
    Creations in cowhide
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    Using cowhide as her main canvas, Nandipha Mntambo challenges social and cultural norms with her creative work. >
  • Bicycle Library
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    Here's a different type of library, one where you can borrow bicyles rather than books. >
  • Leaving footprints
    Design News • 12 Aug 11
    Umcebo Design is planning an exhibition for Durban that looks to ways in which art and craft can address climate change. >
  • Solid by Magnus Pettersen.
    Solid
    Design News • 11 Aug 11
    Concrete was the preferred material choice for Magnus Pettersen's desk accessories. >

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From the Archives

  • Come home again
    Design News • 17 Oct 22
    British designer Es Devlin created a cathedral-like structure illustrated with pencil drawings of London’s 243 endangered flora and fauna species. >
  • Tulip fever
    Design News • 17 Oct 22
    The biggest design event in Northern Europe is taking place in Eindhoven between 22 and 30 October 2022. >
  • Babe in arms
    Design News • 17 Oct 22
    Ogilvy Africa, RotoTanks and the Ministry of Health Kenya partnered on a project aimed at educating young mothers to prevent malnutrition. >
  • Dressed to the nines
    Q&A • 17 Oct 22
    SAFW award-winning menswear designer Samkelo Boyde Xaba is a Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022. >