Design News

  • Food fight: Sumien Brink
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    Given that more food does not equate to less hunger, there is nothing right with the current food system, says Sumien Brink. >
  • Made to fit
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    The Kickstand desk allows you to kill two birds with one stone - get your desk job done and keep fit. >
  • Facing the crowd
    Design News • 9 Nov 11
    William Kentridge's series of charcoal drawings for the Other Faces film can be seen at Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg. >
  • Food fight: Sarah Emily Duff
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Sarah Emily Duff shows that in their mystification of cooking and eating, foodies are snobs, not gluttons. >
  • Food fight: Zoe Coombes
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Product designer and architect Zoe Coombes feels that food culture has a lot to teach other creative fields. >
  • Food fight: Martin Hablesreiter
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Martin Hablesreiter thinks that Barack Obama himself should be dealing with food issues, not his wife. >
  • Inside art space
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    An exhibition celebrating street art in Tel Aviv pays tribute to the city's street art scene while also questioning official and unofficial spaces for art. >
  • Bare minimum
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Frank Tjepkema's Recession Chair is a designer response to current and looming economic issues. >
  • Interpret Africa
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Interpretations of Africa: Football, Art and Design celebrates Puma's new football kit, inspired by African culture and history, for Puma's football teams. >
  • Food edit
    Design News • 8 Nov 11
    Photoshop for your food? The iPlate lets you play around with your food, much like you would play around with pictures in image editing software. >
  • Climate simulation
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    SunGlacier is a "climate simulation" prototype that explores ways of making ice in the desert. >
  • Health function
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health. >
  • Jusi flavours
    Design News • 7 Nov 11
    Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, William Kentridge and David Goldblatt are some of the artists whose work features in the i-Jusi Portfolio Number 2. >
  • Wild for animals
    Design News • 6 Nov 11
    Winner of the Best Graphic Design award at the Dutch Design Awards Rop van Mierlo tells about his Wilde Dieren book project. >
  • State/status
    Design News • 5 Nov 11
    Kudzanai Chiurai's State of the Nation exhibition unpacks the notion of "state" using art, photography, performance and videos. >
  • The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton. Photo: Dave Brown.
    Mad comedy
    Design News • 5 Nov 11
    Off-beat, surreal and funny but that’s what one would expect from Noel Fielding and a book with the title The Scribblings of a Madcap Shambleton. >
  • Kelebogile (Pearl) Boikanyo for music.
    Shining young stars
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Recognising artistic excellence in the visual and performing arts, the winners of the 2011 Standard Bank Young Artist Award were announced recently. >
  • Kitty Hawk 2.0
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Is it a bird or is it a plane? It's the E-volo Multicopter, a helicopter-like craft for cruising the space above the ground. >
  • Map away
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    MAPS is a wonderful collection of cartographical pieces created by Paula Scher over the past 20 years. >
  • Who's afraid?
    Design News • 3 Nov 11
    Vampires in the desert and sightings of Kurt Cobain in the Karoo? Could it be? Who's afraid? Van Coke Kartel's latest graphic novel investigates. >
  • Looking swell
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    An iPad case by Swell accessories with a bamboo and leather look is rather... well, swell. >
  • Growing, patiently
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    Patience, we know, is a great virtue. It could also be the key to a more sustainable way of building. Visiondivision explore. >
  • Publically functional
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    The Western Cape Furniture Design Competition is calling on designers to create beautiful, functional public furniture pieces with alien wood. >
  • Zanele Muholi. Ummeli, 2011. (Image courtesy of the artist and Stevenson Gallery).
    Period pains
    Design News • 2 Nov 11
    Zanele Muholi's "Isilumo siyaluma" collection of work looks at the stigmas and violence black lesbians in South Africa face. >

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From the Archives

  • Hollywood calling
    Q&A • 16 Aug 22
    This Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 is a content creator and fitness influencer with a penchant for filmmaking >
  • Community living
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Mumbai-based architectural and design firm Community Design Agency is working together with community members to revitalise the Sanjaynagar slum >
  • Star quality
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Siviwe Jali, one of the Design Indaba Emerging Creative mentees from 2014, recently won the Best New Talent award at Decorex Cape Town 2022 >
  • Mr Sandman
    Design News • 16 Aug 22
    Recent graduate Archie Read designed an off-grid, ‘flushable’ toilet that aims to provide a dignified solution to unsafe sanitary conditions >