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  • 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. >
  • 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. >

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From the Archives

  • Creative business
    Design News • 10 Oct 22
    Multidisciplinary artist Nene Mahlangu is the 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative programme curator. >
  • Ringing the changes
    Design News • 10 Oct 22
    The International Olympic Committee revealed a new brand identity for the Olympics, the first since the games began in 1896 >
  • Into the woods
    Q&A • 10 Oct 22
    The pandemic inspired UK-based artist Oliver Chalk’s move from creating fabric installations to sculpting wood >
  • Architecture’s best
    Design News • 10 Oct 22
    The Aga Khan Award for Architecture announced the six winners of its 15th award cycle (2020-2022) >