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Art road trip

Design News • 16 Jun 10

The artworks of the various winners of the Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will be touring the country for the next couple of months. >
Over your head

Design News • 16 Jun 10

The best way to support your favourite players during the World Cup might be to pull their faces over your head, literally. >
Green moon power

Design News • 16 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

The proposed Aluna tidal-powered moon clock plans to illuminate the green power of the moon and tides. >
Anatomy and Tiaan Nagel set up shop

Design News • 15 Jun 10

The designer of Design Indaba’s Most Beautiful Object in SA 2010 recently opened a gorgeous shop in Jo'burg. >
Amen football amen

Design News • 15 Jun 10

With football fever all around us, photographer Jessica Hilltout investigates the cultural significance of the beautiful game in Africa. >
The American design dream at Basel2010

Design News • 15 Jun 10

Some of the finest vintage and contemporary American designers' work will be on display at Design Miami/Basel this year. >
From cradle to consumer

Design News • 14 Jun 10

The Green Products Innovation Institute marks the historic launch of a non-profit organisation promoting sustainable design. >
Positive painting

Design News • 14 Jun 10

A coat of paint can go a long way in making a colourful and empowering difference in the lives of poor communities. >
Can-do creativity with the Cratefan

Design News • 14 Jun 10

It bears a slight resemblance to the Incredible Hulk but the Cratefan in Jozi and Cape Town is no ordinary superhero. >
Fine and furnished

Design News • 14 Jun 10

The Bouroullec Brothers have created an interesting apartment interior for one of the units in the famous Radiant City in France. >
Second chances

Design News • 13 Jun 10

Haldane Martin’s re-edition prototype of the Globe Chair is making this everyday household item a must-have. >
Design to heal wounds

Design News • 13 Jun 10

An improved negative-pressure system that doesn’t use batteries or electricity could help to heal many wounds in developing countries. >
Legends of Echo

Design News • 12 Jun 10

The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game. >
Shower power

Design News • 12 Jun 10

The Delta Outdoor Shower is French designer, Inga Sempé’s latest creation. >
Fiction or football

Design News • 10 Jun 10

Flags, vuvuzelas and bright clothing everywhere. It's hard not to be infected by footie fever. Am I Collective's posters add to the joy. >
One man band

Design News • 9 Jun 10

Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits. >
Milestones and goalposts

Design News • 8 Jun 10

In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives. >
Fashionable football fever

Design News • 7 Jun 10

SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories. >
Young and grey

Design News • 7 Jun 10

Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame. >
Writing on trees

Design News • 7 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art? >
Magnetic trailer park attraction

Design News • 4 Jun 10

There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley. >
No tick, no tock

Design News • 3 Jun 10

The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic. >
The final countdown

Design News • 3 Jun 10

With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster. >
Li Edelkoort presents a future past

Design News • 2 Jun 10

A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future. >

From the Archives

Handle with care

Q&A • 10 Apr 22

Nandipha Yanta’s artwork focuses on self-care for Black women >
Outer peace

Design News • 10 Apr 22

Design Indaba Alumnus Shigeru Ban designs a wellness retreat on Japan’s Awaji Island >
Text messaging

Q&A • 10 Apr 22

‘Tentative Words Change Everything’ is a new outdoor sculpture exhibition by British artist Nathan Coley >
Art for art’s sake

Design News • 10 Apr 22

A reimagining of one of the world’s foremost performing arts schools has healing potential for creatives and audiences alike >

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