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10 for 1

Design News • 20 Dec 11

This car-shaped bicycle rack highlights the fact that ten bicycles can be safely parked in a space that can only be used by one car. >
Nice for noodles

Design News • 19 Dec 11

Nendo's "Cupnoodle Urushi" is a souvenir product that adds new creative value to the packaging of instant "cup" noodles. >
CREATIVE CLUB: Bright sparks unite

Festival News • 19 Dec 11

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Brain food

Design News • 19 Dec 11

Sara Asnaghi's brain sculptures, made from edible materials, encourages thinking about what we eat and explores notions of materiality. >
Unexpected transformations

Profiling • 18 Dec 11 • Sponsored Content

Interior designer Tracy Lynch tells of her passion for finding the unexpected, her love for junk shops and the importance of heartfelt spaces. >
Art to eat

Design News • 18 Dec 11

Think gingerbread is only for gingerbread men? Think again. And think domes, skulls and Bauhaus replications. >
Illustrative interactions

Design News • 18 Dec 11

The wise old owl is given a quirky makeover by Melissa Maloney in her illustrations. >
Close ties

Design News • 17 Dec 11

Keeping it simple: The Almohadilla Chair is consists of nothing more than six wooden planes and cable ties. >
Illuminated versions

Design News • 17 Dec 11

Humans Since 1982's "Collection of Light" is an LED lamp that resembles an illuminated drawer for keeping insects. >
Tough as nails

Design News • 16 Dec 11

Sharp sharp: The Nail Cloud is an interior lamp made with magnets and nails. >
Everybody smile

Design News • 16 Dec 11

Smile! The "face" atop the lighthouse is watching you. >
Cultural pioneering

Design News • 16 Dec 11

The Pan-African publication Chimurenga was awarded the Prince Claus Award for cultural pioneering earlier this week. >
Urban acupuncture

Profiling • 15 Dec 11 • Sponsored Content

Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work. >
Displaced fragments

Design News • 15 Dec 11

Olivia de Gouveia's "Apocalyptopia" project considers the consequences of present displacement in a fictional future. >
Festive flavours

Design News • 15 Dec 11

Music, food, design and craft retail, experience it all at Freeworld's Designer-Make Artisan Market. Great place to get your Christmas shopping done. >
Strijdom van der Merwe at Design Indabar

Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11

Land artist Strijdom van der Merwe shows how creativity can help to draw attention to and facilitate understanding of issues around climate change. >
Assaf Biderman at Design Indabar

Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11

Networked technology and connectivity is changing the way we move around cities, says Assaf Biderman. >
Andrew Makin at Design Indabar

Video Interviews • 14 Dec 11

Andrew Makin spoke at Design Indabar in Durban about climate change. >
Love and mystery

Design News • 14 Dec 11

Mister Handsome is Jason Wishnow's short film about love, imagination and some of the dark sides of human nature. >
Intelligent craft

Design News • 14 Dec 11

Haptic Intelligentia is a system that makes provision for traditional craftsmanship in the age of digital technology and 3D printing. >
Sheets of colour

Design News • 14 Dec 11 • Sponsored Content

Artist Tyree Callahan's Chromatic Typewriter "types" paintings, with the machine's keys as different colours. >
Quirky cauliflower

Design News • 13 Dec 11

Meet Doris. She's a great-tasting, long-lasting cauliflower. Then also meet her siblings: Doug, Shirl and Bob. >
Talking about love

Design News • 13 Dec 11

What we talk about when we talk about love is a group exhibition exploring different notions of love and the relationship we have with ourselves. >
Specialised generalist

Profiling • 13 Dec 11 • Sponsored Content

With a form follows materials approach, Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek creates distinctive designer furniture from scraps of wood. >

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