Design News

Handmade Home Collection by Quazi Design

Product Spotlight • 20 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Quazi Design’s new range of homeware is an ambitious departure from its previous focus on jewellery. >
Lookbook: Inside Cape Town's modernist textile factories

Lookbook • 18 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

An Open House Architecture tour offers a rare glimpse inside the iconic buildings that were at the centre of the city's rag trade. >
A hand-drawn music video

Design News • 18 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Stefan Bucher's perfectly flowing animation of this music video belies the painstaking work behind it. He tells us about the ups and downs of making it. >
Lookbook: Common Methods First Edition

Lookbook • 15 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

South African and Dutch designers collaborated to create a range of products that experiments with bronze and leather. >
Lookbook: AngloGold Ashanti AuDITIONS

Lookbook • 14 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Kristen Malan’s “Halo” headpiece wins the AngloGold Ashanti AuDITIONS gold jewellery design competition. >
Offis System by Raw Studio

Product Spotlight • 13 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Raw Studio unveils a sleek system of furniture to suit the changing needs of modern work habits. >
Guerilla Architect – trailer

Design News • 12 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Watch a preview of the first episode of "Rebel Architecture", Al Jazeera's new documentary series on architects who push the boundaries of the profession. >
Veld couch and Pebble Stool by Dokter and Misses

Product Spotlight • 11 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Dokter and Misses are on a collab kick – this time with renowned felt artist Ronel Jordaan. >
Soldier Screens by Dokter and Misses and Gone Rural.

Product Spotlight • 11 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Dokter and Misses collaborates with Gone Rural to create a new partition screen system. >
Lookbook: Open Field

Lookbook • 10 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

The wild natural gardens of Piet Oudolf belie the masterful hand that conceived them. A new exhibition of his sketches reveals his creative process. >
The Sticky Brick Fingers

Design News • 7 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "The Sticky Brick Fingers", Henrik Vibskov's Spring/Summer 2015 men's collection. >
The rebels of architecture

Design News • 6 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

A new six-part documentary series tracks architects operating at the fringes of the profession – and even the law. >
Lookbook: What's Your Type?

Lookbook • 4 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

An exhibition of alphabet prints by David Kindersley harks back to the pre-digital days of typographic design. >
Eclectic interiors

Design News • 3 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Studio Makkink & Bey combines antiques and contemporary design to transform a 17th-century French hotel into a university research centre. >
SA's top buildings

Lookbook • 2 Aug 14 • Sponsored Content

Presenting this year's winners of the South Africa Institute of Architecture's awards celebrating architectural excellence in the country. >
Whisper chandelier by High Thorn

Product Spotlight • 31 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

High Thorn's latest lighting design is a cascade of leather evoking a laidback sense of luxury. >
Lookbook: Marianne Fassler's Resort 2015 collection

Lookbook • 28 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

South Africa's favourite iconoclastic fashion designer unleashes a riot of colour and pattern at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Cape Town. >
Orbit coffee table by Stratflex

Product Spotlight • 26 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

The Stratflex family of furniture grows with the addition of this cleverly designed flat-pack table. >
Instomi metal sideboard by Meyer von Wielligh

Product Spotlight • 24 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Meyer von Wielligh contrasts smooth metal with aged wood in the latest addition to its signature range. >
The smell of London

Design News • 22 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Tom Dixon is bringing the scent of London to Paris with a major installation showcasing the making of his new fragrance. >
Kettal Mesh by Patricia Urquiola

Product Spotlight • 21 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Patricia Urquiola contrasts the texture of expanded metal mesh with the solidity of wood and marble in her latest collection of outdoor furniture for Kettal. >
Food for thought

Design News • 20 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Honey & Bunny's new book, "Eat Design", documents everyday objects such as cutlery that affect not only our food but our actions and lifestyles. >
Tuffy by Konstantin Grcic

Product Spotlight • 19 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Konstantin Grcic's Wild Bunch collection of furniture for Magis gets a new addition. >
Face value

Design News • 18 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

This Mandela Day, we pay tribute to our home-grown hero with Garth Walker's cover design for the 29th issue of "ijusi" magazine. >

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From the Archives

Finding hope

Q&A • 12 May 23

Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2023 Oteng Hope Kopiso applies no limits to her craft. >
House of memories

Design News • 12 May 23

A memorial dedicated to earthquake victims traces the natural paths on a hill. >
To-do list

Design News • 12 May 23

Ayse Birsel’s latest book guides readers in designing their own long, happy lives. >
Bathroom break

Design News • 12 May 23

Tom Dixon collaborates with Cosentino on a bold new vision for bathrooms. >