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Horse saddle redesigned after 200 years

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries. >
Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever. >
Red and blue reconcile online

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”. >
Top SA industrial design

Design News • 1 Feb 09

A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008. >
Dreaming in kid-colour

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design. >
Cool beer city

Design News • 1 Feb 09 • Sponsored Content

Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema. >
Bracelets with megabyte

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage. >
The blue house

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs. >
Eight ball bling

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls. >
Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town

Design News • 1 Feb 09

South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September. >
Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa. >
Harsh geometry for plants

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >
All hail Gazelle!

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery. >
Final year clearance sale

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner. >
Woven islands

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008. >
Design cul-cha

Design News • 1 Feb 09

“Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition. >
Refashion, remodel, rephotograph

Design News • 1 Feb 09

All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot. >
Rex shows at the World Bank

Design News • 1 Feb 09

The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington. >
Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin

Design News • 1 Feb 09

After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin. >
Frame the family tree

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”. >
Watt the folk

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Daniel Friedman, whose alter ego is singer-songwriter Deep Fried Man, ventures in search of South African new folk music. >
Made in tjina

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Potter John Bauer is immortalising South Africa’s doily heritage through porcelain and has found happiness in craft. >
Craft debate: Justin McGuirk

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Editor of Icon, a Design Indaba media partner, Justin McGuirk weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >
Craft debate: Paul Priestman

Design News • 1 Feb 09

Industrial designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Paul Priestman weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate. >

From the Archives

EX ASTRA

Design Frontiers • 27 Mar 23

This set of woodcut prints celebrates the months of the year. >
The art bias

Design News • 27 Mar 23

The aim of this Bangalore museum collection is to reframe ideas of Indian art. >
Wayfinder

Q&A • 27 Mar 23

For 2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kamil Adam Hassim, nature is the ultimate inspiration. >
Printed pavilion

Design News • 27 Mar 23

This climate-adaptable pavilion is 3D-printed from recycled plastic. >

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