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Green house for green skin

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works. >
Fashion unions take to the street

Design News • 12 Aug 08 • Sponsored Content

Grabbing public attention in May, the SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) took the Cape Town Fashion Festival to the streets. >
Fashion week frenzy

Design News • 12 Aug 08

The fashion week season saw fashion shows galore delighting audiences at the Durban, Johannesburg and then Cape Town Fashion Weeks. >
Garden furniture for good

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Environmental design studio Orange 22 in Los Angeles has launched the Botanist Blank Canvas Project, which raises money for charity. >
Cape Town librarians vote Kaplicky

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Jan Kaplicky's design for Prague's new national library won the state competition in October last year, causing a political maelstrom. >
Princesses have backsides too

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Inspired by the princess and pea story, Doshi Levien's Principessa daybed consists of many thin mattress layers. >
Edelkoort leaves Eindhoven

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Li Edelkoort resigned as chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland after 10 years in this role, but will remain affiliated. >
The green design race

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Cape Town creative agency the Design Works goes green, encouraging their clients to become more environmentally aware. >
Business for fashion students

Design News • 12 Aug 08

The Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, aimed at empowering young fashion designers with business mentoring, have announced the 2008 winners. >
Hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on student design

Design News • 12 Aug 08

The winners of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Achievers student awards were announced on Youth Day, June 16. >
Yves is for the children

Design News • 12 Aug 08 • Sponsored Content

Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth. >
Pecha Kucha in SA

Design News • 12 Aug 08

South Africa's first Pecha Kucha design open-mic event presented eight local creatives, hosted at the Whatiftheworld Gallery. >
Come on, let's twist again!

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Dubai will be home to the world's first rotating skyscraper, the so-called Dynamic Tower, designed by Italian architect Dr David Fisher. >
Brick-and-mortar design shop

Design News • 12 Aug 08

Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books. >
Orchestrating chaos

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp. >
Line drawings and delicate porcelains

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer. >
Puff and pass

Design News • 1 Aug 08

The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4. >
From Surface to Parsons

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School. >
Sunflower power

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >
From Talking Heads to singing building

Design News • 1 Aug 08

David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building. >
Design votes out Mugabe

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >
Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous

Lookbook • 1 Aug 08 • Sponsored Content

Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces. >
The house that Pancho built

Design News • 1 Aug 08

Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent. >
Twee tees

Design News • 1 Aug 08

While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real. >

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Fresh air

Design News • 27 Jun 23

This public tower in New Delhi purifies polluted air. >
Tectonic forces

Design Frontiers • 27 Jun 23

This massive museum emulates the forms created by shifting tectonic plates. >
Clothes minded

Q&A • 27 Jun 23

2023 Design Indaba Emerging Creative Nokukhanya Justine Zungu is the founder of a brand that specialises in African contemporary women’s wear. >
Decolonising architecture

Design News • 27 Jun 23

The Applied Arts pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale explores the colonial roots and evolution of Tropical Modernist architecture. >

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