New retro Street bike
Alp Germaner has submitted a really cool design for a new street bike.
 
Friday Favourites no. 1

We thought that it would be nice to round off the week with a roundup of some design favourites...

 
WCFI 2011 Seating Competition Winners
The Western Cape Furniture Initiative held its annual design competition. The brief was to design a multi-purpose seating solution under the banner "shack chic". And the winners are....
 
Laser Puppetry
Michaella Janse van Vuuren has created stunning new art pieces using 3-D printing technology. Both show an acute sense of attention to detail and mastery of an exciting new medium.
 
Let your plants hang out
Haldane Martin reveals his latest prototype for a new vertical garden system.
 
FP7. Self Promotion Posters
Ryan Atkinson & his team have created a set of powerful promotional posters using the graphic clarity of typography and clever copy.
 
SA Architects recognised at WAF2010
The recent World Architecture Festival 2010 awarded 2 South African architecture projects with distinctions.
 
South African Innovation
The latest National Geographic (November 2010) featured a South African invention, the Q-drum. The article, entitled Big Ideas: Little Packages suggests "Can good design save the world? It just might, one novel idea at a time."
 
Recycled vases by Liam Mooney
Gone are the days of dodgy recycled glass bottle beer mugs & wine glasses. Liam Mooney has reinvented recycled glassware with these vases.
 
Limited Edition Trees
Snapping a twig from Swedese, Sebastian van Greunen has created a storage solution to satisfy his Libran order hang-ups.
 
Reality vs. Fiction: Kloof Street
While playing google earth tourist, I stumbled across my architectural thesis site. The existence of a rather predictable parking & commercial structure made me think about how large the gap between my fiction and Kloof Street's reality was.
 
blaq by Zelé Angelides
Zelé Angelides, a Jozi based designer let us know about her latest branding project  "blaq" in response to the Antalis Art of Design competition.
 
Supermodified by Anthony Dart
Anthony Dart challenges our impact on our environment through site and sound.
 
Faith 47 - losing city, finding village
Faith 47 chats to us about her latest mural in the China.  The theme for the mural project was 'finding city, painting village'
 
2011 Morewood's MTB new prototype
Pietermaritzburg based mountain bike designer and manufacturer Morewood has unveiled their new prototype model for 2011.
 
Rebranding for Goosecraft
Goosecraft is a leather jacket brand based in the Netherlands. A young label looking for a strong brand identity and after two years of growth approached CMK1 to collaborate with them to develop a premium brand position in the leather goods market.
 
Light Interactive Vessels by John Newdigate
These pierced vessels by John Newdigate came about when accidentally carving through a piece he was working on. John noticed the way light was projected onto the opposite side of the vessel, like a pin-hole camera.
 
To Skin a Cat
An investigation into the loss of leopard populations to the skin trade. A collaborative project by Greg Lomas and Colwyn Thomas.
 
Latest products from Liam Mooney
With the recent launch of his Dry Goods Store, Liam Mooney has produced some great new goodies.
 
Ontwerp - new poster projects
Anthony Dart, from Ontwerp, has created two new poster projects called 'Graphikos' & 'Speak and Spell'.
 


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