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MoMa acquires local design zines

Design News • 2 May 08

A selection of BitterKomix and BitterJusi issues have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection. >
The faces that find me

Design News • 2 May 08

Dylan Culhane's Photoklecksography exhibition was inspired by Justinus Kerner and Hermann Rorschach's exploration of mirrored images. >
Watching glass grow

Design News • 2 May 08

Ilse Doyer of Glamosa Glass and glass artist Martli Jansen van Rensburg have joined forces to explore and innovate on glass work. >
Design, art or soup kitchen?

Design News • 2 May 08

Exploring the legroom between art and design is Cape Town's newest gallery - Curious, Whetstone & Frankley. >
Designer hideaway at art fair

Design News • 2 May 08

Billed as the world's first contemporary African art fair, the Jo'burg Art Fair 2008 welcomed 6 500 visitors through its doors. >
Remade plastic trees

Design News • 2 May 08

South Africa's second Open Lab was held recently at the Design Quarter in Johannesburg. >
2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary

Design News • 2 May 08

As part of the University of Pretoria's centenary celebrations, more than 2 000 designs by alumni will be exhibited. >
A body of plants

Design News • 2 May 08

Fashion design team duo Strangelove, Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, collaborated with Leora Farber on Dis-Location/Re-Location. >
Inn harness

Design News • 2 May 08

Ilse Crawford has cast her enchanting touch across the English inn, using country materials such as rush matting, tweed and pewter. >
Paper architect under the hammer

Design News • 2 May 08

Japanese starchitect Shigeru Ban's Paper Tea House reached £31 700 at a Phillips de Pury and Company auction. >
SABS Design Excellence Award scheme

Design News • 2 May 08

South African product designers are invited to submit entries for the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Awards. >
Indie Undies

Design News • 2 May 08

With six years of success as local lingerie label Ruby, Robyn Lidsky has joined forces with David Gimpel to launch Men United. >
Along the way

Design News • 2 May 08

Disturbance Design's contribution to Cascoland, a multi-disciplinary public art project, which focussed on a walking route through Durban. >
50 buck design

Lookbook • 1 May 08 • Sponsored Content

Design Indaba invited Durban creatives to show-and-tell us the best design to be bought in Durban for under R50. >
Redheads, tall tales and shoeboxes

Lookbook • 1 May 08 • Sponsored Content

Durban illustrator and designer Kim Longhurst shares her newest work. >
Reddy steady...

Design News • 1 May 08

Durban architect Ruben Reddy has accelerated into the fast lane of international sporting structures. >
Designers through the looking glass

Design News • 2 Feb 08

French product designer Matali Crasset is just one of the designers who contributed to Domestic's Narcisse collection of artists' mirrors. >
Top architecture exhibition in Cape Town

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The 2007 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture exhibition will be on show in Cape Town until March 30. >
Let them eat cake!

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and Frederico Duarte have picked up their pens to celebrate Portugal's heritage of cakes. >
The green pink party

Design News • 2 Feb 08 • Sponsored Content

Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007. >
Only you can prevent forest fires

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department. >
Winter fashion for cool cats

Design News • 2 Feb 08

Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008. >
Not quite the garden variety

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow. >
Hani Rashid and the sun king

Design News • 2 Feb 08

The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection. >

From the Archives

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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