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Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo. >

Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame". >

Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys. >

Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo. >

Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube. >

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule. >

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition. >

Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid. >

The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world. >

The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards. >

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials. >

At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges. >

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights. >

“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town. >

Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials. >

Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk. >

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects. >

Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines. >

Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build. >

The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion. >

Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot. >

Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space. >

What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering. >

Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds. >

Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans. >