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Durban's artSPACE gallery hosted the second annual Bigwood exhibition during July, featuring more than 40 designers. >

Marije Vogelzang’s first solo exhibition, Fuel, at Mama in Rotterdam from May 21 to July 6 included cuddly sausages. >

Durban's Bean Bag Bahia Beach Club, sibling to Bean Bag Bohemia and Deli, features an up-market restaurant café as well as a deli. >

Design Indaba alumnus Ilse Crawford, tasked with designing the Aesop shop pairs modern interventions with endearing revival. >

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, aimed at empowering young fashion designers with business mentoring, have announced the 2008 winners. >

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. >

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

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

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

Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg. >