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Third time lucky for Art Vespa entrant

Design News • 14 May 09

After three attempts in four years, David Newenhuizen of BandC Group scooped first prize in the 2009 Art Vespa design competition. >
The architecture of fashion

Design News • 14 May 09 • Sponsored Content

SOUTH award finalist David West launched his Holbol Collection at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town during March. >
The hole ad

Design News • 14 May 09

For an outdoor campaign for power drill Makita, Saatchi & Saatchi made 20 000 precision drilled holes to create an image of the tool. >
New order textiles

Design News • 14 May 09

In an unusual collaboration, architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville redo Kvadrat's showroom in London. >
Clay spandex

Design News • 14 May 09

The 2009 Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Fashion Design went to Jo'burg design duo Black Coffee. >
Intimate scale

Design News • 14 May 09

Philippe Bousquet, Geraldine Fenn and Marchand van Tonder exhibit their contemporary jewellery at the Bell-Roberts Gallery. >
Art funds libraries

Design News • 14 May 09

Cape Town's Jupiter Drawing Room agency generate funds for the South African Mobile Libraries Association. >
Urban art on auction

Design News • 14 May 09

Cape Town graffiti artists raise money for underprivileged communities and new urban art space opens in Woodstock. >
A crystal full of sugar

Design News • 14 May 09

Impish Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has created a limited edition set of crystal for Baccarat. >
DI2009 speakers talk about SA

Festival News • 14 May 09

World-renowned designers discuss South Africa - a country that Rick Valicenti refers to as, "a charmed and emerging place". >
Nampak winners announced

Design News • 14 May 09

Professional and student winners of the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge were announced at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo. >
Friends of Ruth Prowse

Design News • 14 May 09

Help raise funds for disadvantaged students to attend Ruth Prowse School of Art by creating a small art work before 8 June. >
Animation meets theatre

Design News • 14 May 09

Theatre multi-tasker, Neil Coppen's recent production of Tree Boy introduced design, animation and multimedia to the Durban Playhouse. >
Touchpad dining

Design News • 14 May 09

The new Inamo restaurant in London revolutionises the service and hospitality industry with a unique menu based on interactive design. >
Joule on South African roads by 2010

Design News • 14 May 09

South Africa's first locally designed and manufactured electric car is ready for production. >
Prism awards to champion green design

Design News • 14 May 09

Architecture and design students are invited to enter the Plascon Prism awards before 29 May 2009. >
South Africans in Milan

Design News • 14 May 09

After debuting at the Design Indaba Expo, four South African designers exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair under the Misael label. >
SOUTH: The exhibition

Festival News • 14 May 09

The SOUTH awards and exhibition enthusiastically delight in the promise of South African creativity. >
Design Indaba 2009

Festival News • 14 May 09

This quick synopsis of Design Indaba 2009 celebrates its slogan – a better world through creativity. >
Design Conferences Reports

Festival News • 11 May 09

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Conversations

Festival News • 11 May 09

A conversation between Bruce Mau, Marcel Wanders and Dunne&Raby, moderated by Justin McGuirk at Design Indaba. Table Mountain, Cape Town, 28 February 2009. >
Change for good

Festival News • 11 May 09

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Nathan Reddy Pecha Kucha

Talks • 8 May 09 • Sponsored Content

Nathan Reddy, South Africa's most awarded brand specialist, explains his success in the manufacture of desirability. >
Zapiro Pecha Kucha (part one): The Mandela Files

Talks • 2 May 09 • Sponsored Content

The Mandela Files, by South Africa's best-loved and most widely known satirical cartoonist Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro), looks at Mandela as an icon and leader. >

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