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Top architecture exhibition in Cape Town

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The 2007 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture exhibition will be on show in Cape Town until March 30. >
Let them eat cake!

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and Frederico Duarte have picked up their pens to celebrate Portugal's heritage of cakes. >
The green pink party

Design News • 2 Feb 08 • Sponsored Content

Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007. >
Only you can prevent forest fires

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department. >
Winter fashion for cool cats

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008. >
Not quite the garden variety

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow. >
Hani Rashid and the sun king

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection. >
It's a pot, doll!

Design News • 2 Feb 08 • Sponsored Content

Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo. >
Carrol Boyes call for entries

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >
Max normal for kids

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >
Don't feed the animators

Design News • 1 Feb 08

Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >
Riddimtometry

Design News • 1 Feb 08

Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >
Electric wheels for SA

Design News • 11 Jan 08

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >
Art container

Design News • 15 Nov 07

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >
Form follows food

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >
Monument to the now

Design News • 2 Nov 07

The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >
Africa Remix for design

Design News • 2 Nov 07

The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >
Not out of the woods

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >
Volume control

Design News • 2 Nov 07

At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >
1 000 lights make green work

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
Wire dressed up as lamb

Design News • 2 Nov 07

“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
Metal muscle

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
Coming out in shells

Design News • 2 Nov 07

Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
Porcelain menagerie of memories

Design News • 2 Nov 07 • Sponsored Content

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >

From the Archives

The plot thickens

Design News • 17 Apr 23

Studio Other Spaces has been developing this massive park in Ethiopia since 2013. >
Light work

Design News • 17 Apr 23

This wind-up flashlight kit was designed in collaboration with its intended users. >
She shoots

Q&A • 17 Apr 23

SAFTA-nominated director Jessie Zinn is a Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023. >
Illumination station

Design News • 17 Apr 23

Light takes centre stage in six Milan Design Week exhibitions. >

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