Share In a few days the world will be introduced to perhaps the most important “personality” on the South African Football team. Zakumi, the South African team mascot is a leopard, designed and produced exclusively in the host country. The name is a composition of “ZA”, standing for South Africa, and “kumi” translating into “10″ in »
Share Designer Y Tsai designed this Ostrich Bar Stool, which by the way made it (without flying of course) to the final of the “the most beautiful object in South Africa” contest. The stool apparently comes in the same proportions as a real Ostrich, which i suppose is the closest most people will come to experiencing sitting »
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Designs don’t always have to be instant hits; the concept behind them and recognition of the need to contribute to the solution of problems are just as important. Design Affair Studio’s “Swirl” falls into this category. Swirl was designed to make laundry easier for folks in resource poor areas of the world where washing machines may »
Share In Limbe, Cameroon, Bill Zimmerman of 27 Months.com, discovered the amazing work of Lekuama Ketuafor, a teacher who runs Bamboo Magic a workshop/enterprise that churns out some of the most incredible bamboo inspired designs. Lekuama’s aim is to establish a training centre to pass on his skills to young Cameroonians. Lekuama, who is interested in partnerships »
Share Ola-Dele Kuku is a Lagos born architect and an artist who lives in Belgium. His work often combines the use of proportions, empty space, splendid aesthetics and design. He has been quoted by the fine arts studio as stating that he considers himself “a monk in search of the use of emptiness as a structure – »
Share The motto “Reduce, Reuse and Recycle” is one that resonates strongly with environmentalists. Every argument that has to be made to raise awareness of the damage done to the environment by waste products has been made. Reducing: Buying in bulk to reduce the amount of packaging, buying locally and repairing what we can. Reuse: Making more use »
Share A few weeks ago, we introduced you to the incredible design talents of Wren. We featured the Wren Coffee bag. Well, Wren has just released a new laptop bag design aptly named the PPC cement laptop bag As Wren states on her site: “One of the favourite things about this bag is the cement mixing instructions »
Share Beautiful designs catch the eye. However, sooner or later the purveyor of the design will be put on the spot to explain how practical their design is to solving everyday problems. This design was Philips’ idea of using an LED solar based lighting solution to promote education in Africa. As Philips pointed out in their sales »
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Stephen Burks was commisioned by patrizia moroso to design and curate the m’afrique exhibition, held at the moroso showroom during milan design week. For his research he travelled to the African city of Dakar to understand the production process of furniture making, work with local artisans and buy the Sengalese and Mali fabrics, which covers all the »
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Blugirlart designed this Bold ethnic print in black, shimmering bronze and terracotta – it’s graphic and animal print inspired as well. Finished with a 1/4 solid welt. its name is “African Inspiration”. The dings and dents of their history have been intentionally left behind. We are not trying to produce new furniture. We’re giving new life »
