Design News

  • Mould robots
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Scientists at the University of the West of England are to design the first-ever biological robot using mould. >
  • Food miles
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    WHYBIN/TBWA Sydney has crafted 12 countries’ flags from food typical of the country. >
  • Cereal assemblage
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products. >
  • Grown tables
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    A tree is a product of its specific time and place. >
  • Ornamental pastures
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hafsteinn Júlíusson’s Growing Jewellery is a clash of jewellery and gardening, couture and organism. >
  • Pocketful of posies
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Woolly Pockets are soft-sided nests for growing plants. >
  • Suburban spread
    Design News • 1 Nov 09 • Sponsored Content
    Farmadelphia by the Front Studio, proposes to transform the urban environment by introducing bucolic farmlands into the city’s urban fabric. >
  • Social farmwork
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    Hyperlocavore.com is a yardsharing social networking site launched by Liz McLellan. >
  • Farm in a box
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
  • Lawn attack
    Design News • 1 Nov 09
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
  • Straight outta SA
    Design News • 31 Oct 09
    Craig Wessels directs the beautiful robotic music video for European pop-rock sensation Tokio Hotel’s Automatic. >
  • Fashion mystery house
    Design News • 30 Oct 09
    ghd Revelations celebrates the craft of South Africa’s leading hair stylists alongside avant-garde local fashion. >
  • Baring it all
    Design News • 30 Oct 09
    South African design studio Amicollective collaborated with emerging local designers and illustrators in Project Bare. >
  • Less can be better
    Design News • 29 Oct 09
    Lisbon-based design, architecture and creativity biennale, ExperimentaDesign, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2009. >
  • Milton Glaser keeps it moving
    Design News • 29 Oct 09
    New York’s SVA Theatre has been redesigned by world-renowned designer Milton Glaser. >
  • Doodle for a difference
    Design News • 27 Oct 09
    In its third year now, the Night of 1000 Drawings has expanded to be hosted in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Amsterdam and Dubai. >
  • Jungle Beat goodies at Woolworths
    Design News • 27 Oct 09
    The South African Jungle Beat kids’ animation is poised to become a household name in South Africa. >
  • Spy vs spy
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    The growing worldwide guerilla gardening subculture comprises people secretly meeting at night to illegally garden. >
  • Mother nature
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    IncuBra by Adam Fiannaca and Cynthia Verspaget is a wearable incubator. >
  • Garden variety
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    Reconquestea by Flavia Lucantoni is a special package of green guerrilla tea. >
  • Countertop farming
    Design News • 2 Oct 09
    Domesticated farming options to try in your kitchen. >
  • New territory
    Design News • 8 Sep 09
    Salon91 presented No Strange Land, a group show featuring five emerging creatives working across music, fine art, illustration and fashion. >
  • State of Our Environment competition
    Design News • 7 Sep 09
    Someone messing with your environment and you don’t know who to tell? Tell ACT about it in the State of Our Environment competition. >
  • Afro hipster
    Design News • 7 Sep 09
    Alexander Derrick’s American and Mauritanian roots shape the thinking behind his Zulu Rose fashion brand. >

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