July 2011 Archive

  • +loop
    Design News • 20 Jul 11
    Trollbäck + Company have released a video iPhone app called +loop. >
  • Party trick
    Design News • 20 Jul 11
    Ice-cream, sweets and fizzy drinks is great but Hat-trick has an idea to get kids to opt for carrots, tomatoes and lean meat at parties. >
  • Nuked
    Design News • 20 Jul 11
    A table lamp resembling a nuclear bomb cloud was created using 3D printing techniques. >
  • Well dressed
    Design News • 19 Jul 11
    Canadian duo, the Brothers Dressler, repurpose used materials and respectfully transform renewable resources into original furniture. >
  • Musings
    Design News • 19 Jul 11
    Tracy Payne’s Muse body of work explores notions of masculine strength and serenity. >
  • Festival highlight
    Design News • 19 Jul 11
    This poster, which was designed for the Glastonbury Festival in June, is enough to put anybody in a festive mood. >
  • Birthday wishes for Madiba
    Design News • 18 Jul 11
    Love, faith, forgiveness, freedom and courage are some of the words Brand inc used to pay tribute to Madiba on his birthday. >
  • Happy birthday Madiba
    Design News • 18 Jul 11
    Ceramicist Hennie Meyer created 93 colouful small vases that say happy birthday to Nelson Mandela. >
  • Paper love
    Design News • 18 Jul 11
    The Antalis 2012 Art of Design Awards recognises design excellence and encourages the original and beautiful use of paper. >
  • Glass houses
    Design News • 17 Jul 11
    Bright and shiny, Shanghai’s new Museum of Glass highlights the endless possibilities of this material. >
  • Plain Clay
    Design News • 15 Jul 11
    Maarten Baas's Plain Clay designs aim to be accessible to more people. >
  • Station slide
    Design News • 15 Jul 11
    Skip the stairs, take the slide! >
  • Wear only ZA
    Design News • 15 Jul 11
    Save jobs while looking fabulous! Be sure to Wear Only ZA every Friday, because South African fashion is where it’s at for Fashion Fridays. >
  • Anatoemy by Karlind Govender.
    Boiling
    Design News • 15 Jul 11
    Check out what’s happening on Cape Town’s independent film scene with On the Boil at the Fugard Theatre. >
  • Urban Sputnik
    Design News • 14 Jul 11
    Urban Sputnik makes understanding the frontiers of astrophysical research easy for everyone, in an interactive cosmology project. >
  • Oppopet. Photo: Hiroshi Iwasaki.
    Mousey mouse
    Design News • 14 Jul 11
    Like a small animal, Nendo's Oppopet wireless computer mouse sometimes wants to be taken for a walk. >
  • Re-vamped up
    Design News • 14 Jul 11
    Thingking’s design interventions at Velokhaya in Khayelitsha aims to make the centre more accessible, fun and functional. >
  • Bracket Light by Thingking
    Bracket Light by Thingking
    Product Spotlight • 13 Jul 11
    Simple and versatile, Thingking's Bracket light can be used in a variety of interesting ways. >
  • Designer pop-up shop hits Cape Town
    Digital News • 13 Jul 11
    Pop Shop, inspired by Design Indaba, is a temporary store with some of the finest lust-have designer products upon local shores. >
  • "Design Samurai" Manabu Mizuno on the possibilities of design
    Talks • Duration: 00:31:56 • 13 Jul 11
    Manabu Mizuno likes to refer to himself as a design samurai, in a very positive sense. >
  • William Drenttel
    William Drenttel on design's global impact
    Talks • Duration: 00:39:28 • 13 Jul 11
    Promoting social entrepreneurship and applying design innovation to impact the world is what creativity is about for the William Drenttel (1953-2013). >
  • Free voices
    Design News • 12 Jul 11
    Voices in Freedom is a collection of posters that celebrate the independence of Mexico. >
  • Home and heart
    Design News • 12 Jul 11
    Show that home is where the heart is with a sustainable concept for the Eco Design Competition. >
  • Instant fix
    Design News • 11 Jul 11
    The Bike Fixtation is like a vending machine for cyclists, where they can both fix their bikes and grab a snack for themselves. >

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