Top 10 January 2014

Here's a round up of the top ten stories on designindaba.com for January 2014.

Here is the ten most popular stories on designindaba.com for the month of January.

Taking top honours is a product story on prolific Japan-based design company, Nendo's range of chopsticks, followed by a story on a memorial mural for Madiba by Freddy Sam and a feature on the Most Beautiful Object on South Africa nominations for 2014.

Other stories that proved popular is a feature on jewellery designer Katherine-Mary Pichulik, Emerging Creative Lazi Mathebula and a story on signage design by Pentagram's Abbott Miller.

If you haven't read these highlight already, here's you chance to catch up on January's hot design news. Enjoy.

We see beauty – part 1

Festival News > Craft / Fashion & Jewellery Design / Product Design

Sunday Times introduces the Design Indaba 2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa nominations. >

23 Jan 14
Utilitarian beauty

Q&A > Craft / Creative Economy / Design Thinking

Dutch designer Reny van der Kamp questions and redefines design in "Utensils", a book based on documenting a Malawian family's life through their utensils. >

20 Jan 14
Walk this way

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Abbott Miller designs a fresh system of signage and wayfinding for the Centro Roberto Garza Sada arts centre at the University of Monterrey in Mexico. >

18 Jan 14
Kinetic façade

Design News > Interaction Design

Asif Khan has designed “a Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. >

14 Jan 14
Madiba memorial mural

Design News > Art & Photography

Cape Town-based street artist Freddy Sam has unveiled a ten-storey tall mural of Madiba in the inner city of Johannesburg. >

13 Jan 14
Digital art competition

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

International stock photo agency, Fotolia launches an international digital art competition as part of their TEN campaign. >

10 Jan 14
Storysmith

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Katherine-Mary Pichulik is the creative mind and maker behind Pichulik. Design Indaba chats to her about her journey and telling stories through jewellery. >

8 Jan 14
Marbles of light

Design News > Interaction Design

Daan Roosegaarde's eye-catching MARBLES installation will illuminate the 2014 Route du Nord Light exhibition with bright and bold colours. >

6 Jan 14
Pick-up sticks

Design News > Industrial Design / Product Design

Japan-based Nendo redesigns an ancient traditional eating utensil, the chopstick, transforming people’s interaction with this everyday object. >

5 Jan 14
Emerging Creative catch-up: Lazi Mathebula

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

2013 Emerging Creative Lazi Mathebula, aka Greiispaces, is one of 50 international illustrators currently exhibiting at .M Contemporary gallery in Australia. >

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