Design News

  • Food fight: Neil Stemmet
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Restaurant designer and consultant Neil Stemmet idealistically proclaims that there is a way for designers to feed the world. >
  • Food fight: Jason Drew
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Author, entrepreneur and environmentalist Jason Drew says that the biggest problem with the food system is an over-taxed ecosystem. >
  • Food fight: Justine Drake
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Justine Drake wonders at Westerners who eat fois gras, prawns and added vitamins, but not poodle, cockroaches or fresh produce. >
  • Food fight: Eric Bulpitt
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Eric Bulpitt says that although we are all eating designers to some degree, there are certainly some that are better than others. >
  • Food fight: Kathryn White
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Kathryn White thinks that, considering the world's obesity and poverty problem, the food system really needs to address bad bread. >
  • Photo: Daici Ano.
    Indulgent
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Nendo have used a variety of doors as shielding elements to create a surprise experience for customers in a new clothing shop in Japan. >
  • Food fight: Matt Allison
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    Industrialised farming methods has stripped fresh produce of its vitamins and minerals says urban farmer Matt Allison. >
  • Urban intersections
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    BIG Architects have won a competition to turn a large concrete warehouse in Basel, Switzerland, into a mixed-use arts district. >
  • Eat me data
    Design News • 14 Nov 11
    How would you visually depict two years worth of meals? Take a look at how Lauren Manning did it. >
  • Scholten & Baijings.
    Fabric greens
    Design News • 13 Nov 11 • Sponsored Content
    Not everything always needs to be functional, take Scholten & Baijings's whimsical veggies as an example... >
  • Sewn up sausages
    Design News • 12 Nov 11
    Meat lover's delight, the Aufschnitt boutique's range of cushions resemble different cuts of meat. >
  • Informal city. Photo: Tanya Zack.
    Issues of informality
    Design News • 11 Nov 11
    The South African Informal City exhibition in Johannesburg, during COP17, aims to encourage dialogue around urban development. >
  • Worthy Abbey. Photo: Edmund Sumner.
    Worthy creation
    Design News • 11 Nov 11
    Thomas Heatherwick has designed the furniture for the Worth Abbey Church in England, using solid American black walnut wood. >
  • City bees
    Design News • 11 Nov 11
    Keen to try your hand at beekeeping? It might be possible to do so in your city apartment with Philips's Urban Beehive concept. >
  • How to eat
    Design News • 10 Nov 11
    A new edition of Michael Pollan's Food Rules comes with gorgeous illustrations by Maira Kalman. >
  • Eleven eleven eleven - winner announced
    Design News • 10 Nov 11
    Depict 11.11.11 and you could win R11 111,11 worth of Design Indaba Shop vouchers. Well done to Samantha Jones whose submission got the popular vote. >
  • Smart biome
    Design News • 10 Nov 11
    Tending a garden takes time, patience and control. With the Biome this process can be managed using your smartphone or iPad. >
  • Bobble by Karim Rashid.
    Water wise
    Design News • 10 Nov 11 • Sponsored Content
    Karim Rashid's colourful Bobble water jug is ideal for filtering water, it looks good and it's 100% recyclable. >
  • DIY wine making
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sabine Marcelis created a system for making wine at home. >
  • Colour me healthy
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    The colourful Nature Matching System works to remind you to consume the right colour combination of fruit and veg every day. >
  • Food political
    Design News • 9 Nov 11 • Sponsored Content
    Conflict Kitchen is a restaurant concept that educates patrons about the culture and politics of countries that the USA are in conflict with. >
  • Mutated produce
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    Would a banana still be a banana if it weren't yellow and shaped as it is? A philosophical question perhaps, but one that Uli Westphal explores with Mutatoes. >
  • To eat or not to meat
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    A vegetarian butchery in The Netherlands is reinvigorating market interest in the protein-rich lupin crop. >
  • Rain maker
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    Airdrop is an irrigation concept that harvests the moisture in the air to irrigate crops in times of drought. >

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    Q&A • 16 Aug 22
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    Design News • 16 Aug 22
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    Design News • 16 Aug 22
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    Design News • 16 Aug 22
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