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    New Ubuntu Award at The Loeries
    Design News • 3 May 10
    The Ubuntu Award is a new category at The Loeries, recognising brands that are making a positive difference. >
  • Plaque of The Dinner Party
    A little less conversation
    Design News • 3 May 10
    The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever. >
  • Courtesy of Guido Ooms and David Grosemans. Artwork: Baschz.
    Milk anyone?
    Design News • 2 May 10
    The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje. >
  • Courtesy of Oded Ezer.
    Biologically creative
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems. >
  • Courtesy of Airside.
    Blame it on the bunny
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful. >
  • Courtesy of Garth Walker.
    African Bondage
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa. >
  • Many ways to love
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition. >
  • Confession by Arik Levy. Photo: Florian Kleinefenn.
    Changing the inappropriate
    Design News • 2 May 10
    “Pussy, Ass & Dick.” To most people these words are inappropriate and vulgar, their use impermissible in society. Arik Levy challenges that. >
  • Zuma Biscuits, 2007. Courtesy of Stuart Bird.
    Beneath the surface
    Design News • 2 May 10
    There’s something that makes you double take when you look at a piece of Stuart Bird’s work. At first you simply see it for the artwork... >
  • Courtesy of Karen Stewart.
    A little koekie time
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book. >
  • Courtesy of Tracey-Lee Scully.
    Sensual beginnings
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Tracey-Lee Scully's Auto-Erotic Photo-Romantic project was inspired by her travels to Berlin and the Photoautomat machines in the city. >
  • Queering Anne
    Design News • 2 May 10
    If Queen Anne of England was alive today there’s a good chance she’d have plenty to say about Ernst van der Val’s ball&claw series. >
  • Courtesy of The Museum of Se[x].
    A rubber history
    Design News • 2 May 10
    While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it. >
  • Courtesy of Steve Brown
    Delicious second skin
    Design News • 2 May 10
    What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams. >
  • Courtesy of Roelf Mulder.
    Fun in four seconds
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design. >
  • Courtesy of LELO.
    Metallic masterpiece
    Design News • 2 May 10
    The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia. >
  • Courtesy of Jimmyjane/Fuseproject.
    Double the fun
    Design News • 2 May 10
    The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series. >
  • Courtesy of Myla.
    Oh so hip Bone
    Design News • 2 May 10
    Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that... >
  • Picture 9. Photo by Leah Hawker.
    Sentient cool
    Lookbook • 1 May 10 • Sponsored Content
    Fine artist and commercial photographer Leah Hawker sourced everything in this photoshoot from the 2010 Design Indaba Expo. >
  • Photos by Emmanuelle Haughel from Bloom n°17. Courtesy of Trend Union.
    Sex is the new yellow
    Design News • 1 May 10
    According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback. >
  • Zinzi and Tozama II Mowbray, Cape Town, 2010. Photo by: Zanele Muholi. Courtesy of Michael Stevenson Gallery.
    Black to the closet
    Lookbook • 1 May 10 • Sponsored Content
    Photographer Zanele Muholi’s exploration of black female bodies has raised more than a couple of eyebrows. >
  • The Boookery in Cape Town
    Support The Bookery!
    Design News • 30 Apr 10
    The Bookery sounds like a place that belongs to the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. And it’s working the same kind of magic. >
  • See Better to Learn Better. Courtesy of fuseproject.
    Seeing is believing
    Design News • 30 Apr 10 • Sponsored Content
    Yves Béhar has designed a funky collection of eyeglasses to help Mexican school children See Better to Learn Better. >
  • Matali Crasset with her “Essentiel de pâtisserie” for Alessi.
    Matali Crasset in the kitchen
    Design News • 29 Apr 10
    Alessi recently launched their “Essentiel de pâtisserie” collection by Parisian designer Matali Crasset. >

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From the Archives

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    Q&A • 26 Jul 22
    Lauren Gericke thrives on creative problem-solving and efficient design >
  • All things shiny
    Q&A • 26 Jul 22
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  • Rock of ages
    Design News • 26 Jul 22
    Michel Rojkind presents his immersive piece "Yoltic Seat" at Lisbon museum >
  • Hope floats
    Design News • 26 Jul 22
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