Design News

  • Hidden earphones
    Design News • 22 May 11
    Nendo's new Otokurage earphones for Elecom is reminiscent of a jellyfish. >
  • Paula Scher mural
    Paula Scher mural
    Design News • 22 May 11 • Sponsored Content
    Paula Scher's new murals at the Queens Metropolitan Campus creates a world in one room. >
  • Made to fit
    Design News • 21 May 11
    Vivian Chiu’s Inception Chair comprises 10 chair frames that all fit together to form one, very interesting, seat. >
  • Kerstin Eser and Christopher Strong.
    Possibilities
    Design News • 21 May 11
    Openness to Explore at Freeworld Design Centre features the second series of room-size exhibitions by top creatives. >
  • Cups of cocoa
    Design News • 19 May 11
    fuseproject's Talamanca Cocoa project raises awareness about the positive aspects of organic cocoa farming in Costa Rica. >
  • Quilted
    Design News • 18 May 11
    The honeycomb-like Quilt series of sofas and chairs by the Bouroullec Brothers now comes in a new colourway. >
  • Cathedral moods
    Design News • 17 May 11
    Anish Kapoor's cathedral-like installation in Paris reflects on the transitive nature of instants. >
  • Light bulb moment
    Design News • 17 May 11
    Google have launched an LED light bulb which can be controlled by any Android device, paving the way for a new type of energy efficiency. >
  • Pattern people
    Design News • 16 May 11 • Sponsored Content
    Renée Rossouw and Laduma Ngxokolo take abstract patterns from school-day simplicity to allusions about personal identity. >
  • Handling pressure
    Design News • 16 May 11
    A new innovation allows people to monitor their blood pressure using their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. >
  • Mesh-merised
    Design News • 16 May 11 • Sponsored Content
    Tom Dixon's Mesh chair aspires to be almost invisible. >
  • A material world
    Design News • 15 May 11
    The four young partners of Fibra Design Sustentável are rethinking our material world. Theirs is no small goal, nor easy task. >
  • Considered design space
    Design News • 15 May 11 • Sponsored Content
    The Milan Furniture Fair celebrateed its golden jubilee this year, drawing some 320 000 visitors. >
  • Design as dance
    Design News • 15 May 11
    Calling on the power of artistry to move a viewer, Dror Benshetrit proposes modern dance as a fitting analogy for luxury design. >
  • Shy The Sun
    Sunny Side Up
    Design News • 15 May 11
    Shy The Sun has taken their brand of quirky fantasy and broken commercial boundaries both locally and abroad. >
  • West Coast Forager
    Design News • 15 May 11
    Bokkoms, dune spinach and dried seaweed are just some of the unique ingredients Kobus van der Merwe uses in his locavore dishes. >
  • Digital realities
    Design News • 15 May 11
    With Pixel Project, Rahle Dusheiko designs experiences where the physical and the digital interact, combining technology with storytelling. >
  • Design evolution at Milan2011
    Design News • 15 May 11
    Superfarm proposes a new way of cultivating and consuming food, looking to the urban environments of 2050. >
  • Wanders forever
    Design News • 15 May 11
    Marcel Wanders's designs are pretty desirable. So desirable, in fact, that you might want it tattooed onto your body. Now you can! >
  • Colourful cuckoos
    Design News • 14 May 11
    Coulourful and whimsical but also very functional, this little cuckoo clock is a real lust-have. >
  • Cinematic experience
    Design News • 14 May 11
    Naço Architecture has worked to once again make the Heng Shan cinema in Shanghai the place to be. >
  • Photo: Simon Bouisson.
    Internet hotel
    Design News • 13 May 11
    Devoid of concierge and staff, the Hi Matic in Paris is a 100% internet-based hotel >
  • Photo: Bruno Alder.
    Trucker style
    Design News • 13 May 11
    Used tarpaulins from trucks have never been as stylish as in Freitag's Fake Snake Collection of limited edition handbags. >
  • Animal gestures
    Design News • 13 May 11
    The Horse Marionette and Rocking Springbuck are two of Michaella Janse van Vuuren's latest creations, both designed with CAD software. >

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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 >