Design News

  • Children of the Stars - Willem Boshoff.
    Perfectly moulded
    Design News • 17 Jun 10
    Often under-rated as an art form, a new exhibition attempts to give sculpture its rightful place in contemporary SA art history. >
  • Blank Daily Monster.
    Daily Monster football fever
    Design News • 17 Jun 10
    Let's have a special word of welcome for the World Cup Edition of the Daily Monster! >
  • Motel6 by Priestmangoode.
    Welcome to Motel6
    Design News • 16 Jun 10
    Just because it’s cheap doesn’t mean that it should be inferior. In fact, Priestmangoode brings boutique design to Motel6 at budget price. >
  • Taxi Crash - Gordon Froud.
    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. >
  • Photo: Milan Daniels.
    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. >
  • The Aluna Foundation - Mark Glean.
    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 Design/Tiaan Nagel.
    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. >
  • Orlando, Chicome, Mozambique. Photo: Jessica Hilltout.
    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. >
  • Wendell Castle Lamp Edition. Photo: Shirley Griffin for R20th Century.
    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. >
  • GPII logo by Yves Béhar.
    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. >
  • Favela paintings by Haas&Hahn.
    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. >
  • Cratefan in Newtown, Joburg.
    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. >
  • Apartment 50. Photo: Studio Bouroullec + FLC ADAGP.
    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. >
  • Globe Chair. Photo: Justin Patrick.
    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. >
  • Danielle Zurovcik demonstrates how to use the negative pressure pump to seal an arm wound. Photo: Melanie Gonick.
    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
    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. >
  • Delta Outdoor Shower
    Shower power
    Design News • 12 Jun 10
    The Delta Outdoor Shower is French designer, Inga Sempé’s latest creation. >
  • Africa. Image via Cherryflava.com.
    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. >
  • The Skurweberge along Witzenburg Valley, 2008.
    One man band
    Design News • 9 Jun 10
    Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits. >
  • Strike by Lynette Bester, 2010.
    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. >
  • Designer Isabelle Carpenter, Zizo Beda, Bridget Masinga and designer Kelly Fisher. Photo: Natalie Payne.
    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. >
  • Grey Derivations: Dressoir (2010).
    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. >
  • Typographic Trees by Gordon Young.
    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? >
  • The Grolsch magnetic Airstream trailer.
    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. >

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From the Archives

  • Pavilions on a pedestal
    Design News • 17 Apr 22
    Architectural pavilions can take creativity to the next level – but what makes a pavilion truly great? >
  • The sound of silence
    Design News • 17 Apr 22
    Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss >
  • A virtual leap for the lab
    Q&A • 17 Apr 22
    Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners >
  • Art across time
    Design News • 17 Apr 22
    Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms >