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  • Personalised Citycropps Package
    Green Product: Citycropps virtually helps create a functional garden
    Design News > Design Activism / Information Design
    Citycropps is an urban agricultural project that virtually assists app users as they cultivate their own organic gardens. >
    3 May 16
  • Edyn Garden by Jason Aramburu and fuseproject.
    Product spotlight: Edyn Garden
    Product Spotlight > Product Design
    Stay connected to your garden with the world's first smart garden system and app. >
    17 Jun 14
  • Garden explorations
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Matali Crasset's Le Blobterre de Matali is an installation that serves as a space of exploration for children. >
    28 Nov 11
  • Food fight: Maranda Engelbrecht
    Design News > Food Design
    Food stylist and chef Maranda Engelbrecht says that home-grown and home cooked is the ultimate luxury. >
    14 Nov 11
  • 8 House (2010) by Bjarke Ingels Group
    Shapes of eight
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    The 8 House allows people to bike all the way from the street to the 10th level penthouses. >
    25 Jun 11
  • Cinematic experience
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    Naço Architecture has worked to once again make the Heng Shan cinema in Shanghai the place to be. >
    14 May 11
  • Woolworths Trust living wall at DI2011
    Festival News > Design Thinking
    Join Woolworths in making a difference by planting a virtual seedling at Design Indaba Conference and Expo. >
    23 Feb 11
  • Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin
    Plant a wall
    Design News > Industrial Design
    The Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin, created to enable city dwellers to grow their own plants. >
    21 Feb 11
  • Li Edelkoort at DI2011
    Festival News > Design Thinking / Architecture & Interiors / Fashion & Jewellery Design
    Woolworths is pleased to present Li Edelkoort’s Trend Seminars in Cape Town and Johannesburg, in association with Design Indaba. >
    15 Feb 11
  • Green feet
    Design News > Product Design
    Forget green fingers. With Oats Shoes's new Virgin Collection you can have green feet, or shoes rather. >
    12 Feb 11
  • Paik Nam June Media Bridge by Planning Korea.
    Connecting bridge
    Design News > Architecture & Interiors
    A new mega structure in Seoul, South Korea, is more than just a bridge... It generates its own power. >
    21 Oct 10
  • Home: Good housekeeping
    Opinion > Architecture & Interiors
    Vastu Shastra is the ancient Indian architectural practice of constructing buildings in harmony with nature. >
    1 Aug 10
  • Phul Chair by Mann Singh.
    Push and Phul
    Design News > Product Design
    You know you’ve got a winner when a chair is not only comfortable to sit on but also exceptionally beautiful to look at. >
    27 Jul 10
  • Cement garden
    Design News >
    CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Crop share actionism
    Profiling > Design Thinking
    Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Soil soul
    Profiling > Urban & Landscape Design
    Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Lawn attack
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Barrel o’ rain
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Designed to look like a giant water drop, Bas van der Veer’s A Drop of Water collects rainwater by filling a watering can and rain barrel. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Farm in a box
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The self-watering, self-feeding, weed-resistant EarthBox is a portable, reusable, maintenance-free, organic gardening system. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Growth and death
    Design News > Design Thinking
    Artist Philip Ross’s work explores humanity’s relationship with plants. >
    1 Nov 09
  • Spy vs spy
    Design News > Design Thinking
    The growing worldwide guerilla gardening subculture comprises people secretly meeting at night to illegally garden. >
    2 Oct 09
  • Harsh geometry for plants
    Design News > Product Design
    Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics. >
    1 Feb 09
  • Sunflower power
    Design News > Product Design / Design Thinking
    Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece. >
    1 Aug 08
  • Avant garden
    Opinion > Urban & Landscape Design
    Spring has sprung in the UK and Dan Pearson is busy, writes Lynda Relph-Knight. >
    1 May 04
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