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Food for thought

Design News • 20 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Honey & Bunny's new book, "Eat Design", documents everyday objects such as cutlery that affect not only our food but our actions and lifestyles. >
Tuffy by Konstantin Grcic

Product Spotlight • 19 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Konstantin Grcic's Wild Bunch collection of furniture for Magis gets a new addition. >
Face value

Design News • 18 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

This Mandela Day, we pay tribute to our home-grown hero with Garth Walker's cover design for the 29th issue of "ijusi" magazine. >
Flip and Sketch by Ryan Frank

Product Spotlight • 17 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Ryan Frank's eco-sleeve design brand TAPEGear falls for flax. >
Finger ballet

Design News • 15 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Pentagram's Abbott Miller has designed an app that allows users to choreograph their own ballet sequences. >
Lookbook: Rebranding Rwanda

Lookbook • 14 Jul 14

George Pericles Creative Think-Tank proposes a visual identity for Rwanda's provinces based on traditional patterns. >
A Kenyan conundrum

Design News • 14 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Kenya’s first pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale – a giant missed opportunity? >
Woven vessels by Design Afrika

Product Spotlight • 12 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Unusual material combinations give these traditional woven vessels a contemporary twist. >
Gathered together

Design News • 11 Jul 14

Lidewij Edelkoort's latest exhibition at the Design Museum Holon in Israel explores the seam of craft and design. >
Braaitjie by Dieter Zermatten

Product Spotlight • 10 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

A pint-sized ‘braai’ hopes to reinvent South Africa’s obsession with barbecuing meat outdoors. >
Lookbook: Over the Rainbow

Lookbook • 9 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

A new exhibition in France shows Scholten & Baijings's creative portfolio from the past 14 years. >
A desert in Venice

Design News • 9 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Morocco's first-ever pavilion at the Venice Biennale explores the country's experimental approach to 'desert architecture'. >
Lookbook: Department of Design

Lookbook • 7 Jul 14

We look at Droog's design of a pop-up pavilion to foster Dutch-South African collaboration for Cape Town's reign as 2014 World Design Capital. >
Blocks and Grid by Scholten & Baijings

Product Spotlight • 5 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

Scholten & Baijings latest fabric collection reinterprets colour blocking as an exercise in subtle colour gradations. >
Lookbook: Word Cup

Lookbook • 3 Jul 14

Facebook communication designer and football fanatic Ji Lee creates a league of his own with his Word Cup challenge. >
News: Exemplary colours

Design News • 2 Jul 14

Colour maven Hella Jongerius gets outs her paintbrush for a group exhibition celebrating MAK's 150th anniversary. >
Beaded iPhone cases by Vukile Batyi and Laduma Ngxokolo

Product Spotlight • 1 Jul 14 • Sponsored Content

The quintessential 21st-century accessory gets a Xhosa-inspired case courtesy of Vukile Batyi and Laduma Ngxokolo. >
Lookbook: Our picks of the DDA finalists

Lookbook • 30 Jun 14

Every year the Dutch Design Awards ferret out the most forward-thinking work produced in The Netherlands. We select our favourites. >
Product Spotlight: Karoo Chair

Product Spotlight • 28 Jun 14 • Sponsored Content

The Karoo Chair by Curious Room is a felt and fabric ode to the natural beauty of the South African landscape. >
Product Spotlight: Karoo Chair

Product Spotlight • 28 Jun 14 • Sponsored Content

The Karoo Chair by Curious Room is a felt and fabric ode to the natural beauty of the South African landscape. >
Juice detox

Design News • 27 Jun 14

A new exhibition of Garth Walker's "ijusi" magazine explores what makes us South African and what that looks like. >
A new app to connect creatives with clients

Design News • 26 Jun 14 • Sponsored Content

Creative Cape Town has launched an app that maps the creative industries in the Mother City, making it easier to navigate for potential clients. >
News: Drawings are forever

Design News • 26 Jun 14

Ron Arad's newest edition of "Last Train" uses diamonds as a drawing tool to call attention to their strength rather than their preciousness. >
Lookbook: Doing the polka

Lookbook • 25 Jun 14 • Sponsored Content

Laurence Airline's Spring Summer 2015 collection deftly balances graphic pattern with urban un-fussiness. Step into the urban jungle with our gallery of images. >

From the Archives

Design for Human Rights

Design News • 13 Mar 23

In honour of Human Rights Day on 21 March, we take a look at human-centred innovations from South Africa. >
To the world

Q&A • 13 Mar 23

Sumayya Vally is shaping and shifting architectural discourses for the future. >
Something fishy

Design News • 13 Mar 23

This floating pavilion, which resembles a fish eye, is dedicated to sustainable fishing. >
Full of beans

Design Frontiers • 13 Mar 23

Anish Kapoor’s latest sculpture lies ‘squashed’ under a high-rise building. >

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