2008 Archive

  • Tangible brand marks
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market. >
  • Design stuffs its face
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Fabrico Próprio: The Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery makes a strong case for the design fame of 90 single-serving cakes. >
  • Green goes orange
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    Architecture of Change is a book about sustainable buildings, and the cover has not a single shade of green. >
  • But how does nature make you feel?
    Reviews • 1 Nov 08
    An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely. >
  • The gospel truth
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia. >
  • Shrinking the art world
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound. >
  • Waste worthy of art
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used. >
  • Design Indaba film to air
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October. >
  • And now for the black blob
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky. >
  • Paula Scher does China
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series. >
  • Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona. >
  • Not quite Discovery Channel
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals. >
  • Travelling on trains with kids
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons. >
  • Direct via the Transkei
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets. >
  • Tees for trees
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation. >
  • The art of fashion
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate. >
  • Hot foreigners in Jozi
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi. >
  • Cops coin it on Sagmeister
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September. >
  • Full moon for eco-fashion
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week. >
  • Cattle heads ceramics competition
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth. >
  • The end of minimalism
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Stefano Giovannoni’s OrienTales opens a new chapter in the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan. >
  • Witty wallpaper
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness. >
  • SA fashion hits the silver screen
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa. >
  • New fair trade shop in South Africa
    Design News • 1 Nov 08
    British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November. >

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