Design News

  • 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. >
  • 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. >

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