Design News

  • Carrol Boyes call for entries
    Design News • 2 Feb 08
    Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >
  • Max normal for kids
    Design News • 2 Feb 08
    Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >
  • Don't feed the animators
    Design News • 1 Feb 08
    Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >
  • DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid
    Riddimtometry
    Design News • 1 Feb 08
    Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >
  • Electric wheels for SA
    Design News • 11 Jan 08
    Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >
  • Art container
    Design News • 15 Nov 07
    One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >
  • Form follows food
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >
  • Monument to the now
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >
  • New Africa
    Africa Remix for design
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >
  • Not out of the woods
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >
  • Volume control
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >
  • 1 000 lights make green work
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >
  • Wire dressed up as lamb
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    “Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >
  • Metal muscle
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >
  • Coming out in shells
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >
  • Porcelain menagerie of memories
    Design News • 2 Nov 07 • Sponsored Content
    Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >
  • The public secret of avatars
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >
  • Five-day wooden house
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >
  • Hillbrow, London
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >
  • Underground at Woolworths
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >
  • The bobo movement
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >
  • MCQP is FAB
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >
  • Tsai times two
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >
  • Shoe-wow!
    Design News • 2 Nov 07
    Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >

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From the Archives

  • Fruits of labour
    Design News • 12 Dec 22
    Seeds of the Fig at Twee Jonge Gezellen farm features sculptures by 24 celebrated African artists. >
  • High rise
    Design News • 12 Dec 22
    The winners of the 15th annual World Architecture Festival were announced recently in Lisbon, Portugal. >
  • Art Down Under
    Design News • 12 Dec 22
    A new building overlooking Sydney Harbour was recently added to the Art Gallery of New South Wales. >
  • The Life Aquatic
    Design News • 12 Dec 22
    Italian scuba diver and gardener Sergio Gamberini designed Nemo’s Garden, the world’s first underwater garden. >