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SA snaps up two Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions

Design News • 20 Aug 09

Both Net#work BBDO Johannesburg and TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg walked away from the 2009 Cannes Lions with a sought after Grand Prix. >
Fablab bears fruit

Design News • 19 Aug 09

Using Soshanguve FABlab, the design team at Readymade are prototyping The Nest fruit bowl for an income-generation venture. >
Take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints

Design News • 17 Aug 09

Tribute to internationally celebrated fashion photographer Crispian Plunkett, who passed away recently. >
Moroso does Africa

Design News • 16 Aug 09

Italian furniture brand Moroso celebrates the influence of Africa in the M’Afrique C’est Chic exhibition. >
Siblings bring music to T-shirts

Design News • 15 Aug 09

Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit. >
Twiice goes local

Design News • 14 Aug 09

Leading South African distributor of global design products, Twiice International, has launched a local production arm, Designfaktori. >
An eye on power

Design News • 13 Aug 09

The Wattcher is a design object that displays the total electricity consumption of your home in a beautiful and meaningful way. >
No dust in this library

Design News • 10 Aug 09

Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library >
Tribal iconography

Design News • 9 Aug 09

Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London. >
One chair is enough

Design News • 8 Aug 09

Shigeru Ban’s ingenious new 10-Unit System for Artek can be used to make a chair, table or bench using just one simple L-shaped unit. >
Would you like that with chips?

Design News • 7 Aug 09

Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK. >
Drawing on the walls

Design News • 6 Aug 09

Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009. >
Euro chic hotel for Jozi

Design News • 5 Aug 09

Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg. >
See through function

Design News • 4 Aug 09

RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam. >
Huggable couch

Design News • 3 Aug 09

Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece. >
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China

Design News • 2 Aug 09

Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009. >
The disgrace of popularity

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture. >
Post-er-boy

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations. >
Hands-free viral

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Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile. >
Paint the town with poetry

Design News • 1 Aug 09 • Sponsored Content

Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing. >
Interversion

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art. >
The indigenous style

Design News • 1 Aug 09

Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction. >
Installation in motion

Design News • 28 Jul 09

A large scale and site-specific installation by designer Clive Rundle entailed three models climbing out of a wall. >
Gorgeous mushroomed playroom

Design News • 27 Jul 09

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of House for the Little Ones at the 104 Centquatre arts centre in Paris. >

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Flipping the script

Design News • 6 Feb 22

Pandemic lockdowns inspired Mina Kasirifar’s multifunctional sensory furniture for kids >
Setting down roots

Design News • 6 Feb 22

DRIFT’s LED-lit Tree of Ténéré finds a permanent home in Dallas, Texas >
Paying homage to the matriarchy

Design News • 6 Feb 22

Nokukhanya Charity Vilakazi’s work explores the power of the stories African grandmothers tell their grandchildren. >
Light my wire

Design News • 6 Feb 22

A contemporary spin on telephone wire weaving makes for a range of mesmerising pendants. >

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