Design News

  • Cardborigami shelter.
    Cardboard shelter
    Design News • 8 Oct 10 • Sponsored Content
    An origami-inspired corrugated cardboard shelter is a great temporary solution for the urban homeless and victims of disaster. >
  • Domestic Ponds.
    Ponds for ecosystems
    Design News • 7 Oct 10
    Domestic Ponds explores the benefits of ecosystems and looks at creative ways of bringing them into the home. >
  • Weapons for shovels.
    Gun free, tree rich
    Design News • 7 Oct 10
    A design campaign in Mexico called for the voluntary donation of weapons, and turned them into useful shovels with which to plant trees. >
  • Containing hope
    Design News • 7 Oct 10
    Tsai Design Studio's repurposed freight containers are bringing joy to poor communities in the Western Cape. >
  • Beer crate pavilion. Photo: Serge Brison.
    Built from beer (crates)
    Design News • 6 Oct 10
    Architects SHSH used beer crates for a temporary pavilion celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition. >
  • Bottle Form Ball by Heath Nash.
    Friends with business benefits
    Design News • 5 Oct 10 • Sponsored Content
    A new non-profit initiative is empowering local craft and design businesses for commercial success by teaching them valuable skills. >
  • Free sneakers!
    Design News • 5 Oct 10
    Get a free pair of really funky sneakers when you purchase your cassette tape copy of Animal Collective's unreleased songs. Now! >
  • Zulu Mama chair by Haldane Martin. Photo: Justin Patrick.
    Haldane Martin now in Jozi
    Design News • 5 Oct 10 • Sponsored Content
    Brace yourselves Joburg design lovers. Haldane Martin has opened a showroom in Parktown North. >
  • Southern Right Vessel.
    Swimming success
    Design News • 4 Oct 10
    A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam. >
  • Punkt by Jasper Morrison.
    Pick up the phone!
    Design News • 3 Oct 10
    The Punkt DP 01 is a funky new phone design by Jasper Morrison for a Swiss consumer electronics band. >
  • Thoms Heatherwick. Photo via dezeen.
    Hail to Heatherwick
    Design News • 3 Oct 10
    Thomas Heatherwick is the latest recipient of the coveted London Design Medal. >
  • Long Live the Dead Queen by Mary Sibande. Photo: 2point8photo/Nadine Hutton and Delwyn Verasamy.
    Now and forever
    Design News • 2 Oct 10
    Victorian lady or South African house maid? Mary Sibande's mixing of the two results is powerful social commentary. >
  • Needle & thread
    Design News • 2 Oct 10
    Simple yet effective. Pentagram designed the identity for the new Fashion Law Institute. >
  • Frits Philips Concert Hall.
    Music makeover
    Design News • 1 Oct 10
    The Frits Philips Concert Hall in Eindhoven has undergone a transformation: Introducing the music centre of the future! >
  • Residence 2.0.
    Welcome to Residence 2.0
    Design News • 1 Oct 10
    Residence 2.0 might be the most energy-efficient home ever. It's setting the pace for green homes, and its rather beautiful. >
  • Balancing Barn.
    Well balanced
    Design News • 1 Oct 10
    The "Balancing Barn" sounds like a playroom for children, and is colourful too, but its allowing Joe Soap to enjoy top-notch architecture. >
  • Youturn Pavilion by UNStudio. Photo: Ding Musa.
    Enabling communication
    Design News • 30 Sep 10
    UNStudio's Youturn Pavilion is part artwork, part architecture and part installation that encourages diverse forms of communication. >
  • Boi Boi, Zuko & Prince. Photo: Araminta de Clermont.
    Watershed photography
    Design News • 30 Sep 10
    Araminta de Clermont's exhibition, A New Beginning, explores the outer transition newly initiated young men go through. >
  • AlessiTab by Stefano Giovannoni. Photo via designboom.
    Kitchen cool
    Design News • 29 Sep 10
    The new AlessiTab designed by Stefano Giovannoni is the ideal interactive, multimedia device for domestic spaces. >
  • Paul Senyol.
    Ark-inspired art
    Design News • 28 Sep 10
    The biblical story of Noah's Ark is the metaphoric reference for the Ark Exhibition featuring Justin Southey, Paul Senyol and Bruce Mackay. >
  • World's largest offshore wind farm.
    Blown away
    Design News • 28 Sep 10
    Renewable energy solutions are a key concern for designers across the world. See the world's largest offshore wind farm in the UK. >
  • Pigeon D'Or by Tuur van Balen.
    What happens next
    Design News • 27 Sep 10
    Further Instructions, a critical design show by Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, explored the complexity of multiple urban narratives. >
  • Antalis Award of Design Awards.
    Graphic recognition
    Design News • 27 Sep 10
    The 2010 Art of Design Awards delivered an original and inspiring selection of creative work - a slap on back for the local industry. >
  • Djibouti City, Djibouti.
    The other side of Africa
    Design News • 27 Sep 10
    Africa, through the eyes of architect David Adjaye, presents some interesting insights into the continent’s built environment. >

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  • Objets d’art
    Design News • 3 Jan 23
    The Maison&Objet biannual design and decor fair in Paris will host over 700 brands between 19 and 23 January 2023. >
  • In the zone
    Design News • 3 Jan 23
    Dyson tackles both air and noise pollution with a sci-fi-esque set of headphones. >
  • Blossoming creativity
    Design News • 3 Jan 23
    The first contemporary florilegium in Africa is reviving botanical art with the aim of furthering conservation. >
  • Building blocks
    Design News • 3 Jan 23
    The latest project of international architecture company Office for Metropolitan Architecture employs stacked structures to make best use of limited space. >