Design Picks of the Week Design April 7, 2014 Picks of the Week Kickstart your week with the team’s inspirational highlights, ranging from clashtastic Dries van Noten and exploding petals to a hut on sleds, an eerie walled city and exquisite shadow lighting. Full Article
Design Picks of the Week Design March 24, 2014 Picks of the Week Kickstart your week right here with the team’s creative highlights ranging from the sublime social hammocks to the ridiculous hamster-wheel apartment, with crystal rock lights, walking lamps and more in between. Full Article
Decor Skin deeper Decor March 18, 2014 Skin deeper Here at VISI we know perfectly well that beauty is all about the way you feel and that the surroundings play a massive part in that. This is the genius behind the Aesop brand’s world-famous store designs and now there’s one in Cape Town too. Full Article
Lifestyle All the city’s a stage Lifestyle March 17, 2014 All the city’s a stage Last week was the irrepressibly contagious Infecting The City Public Arts Festival, which turned Cape Town’s central streets into a stage. Photographer Sydelle Willow Smith shot this striking photo essay of highlights. Full Article
Architecture Inhouse container Architecture March 13, 2014 Inhouse container Two of VISI’s favourite trends — liveable, sociable workspaces and container architecture — come together in the sweet spot that is the new offices of advertising agency 99c, designed by Inhouse Brand Architects. Full Article
Lifestyle Delft dawg Lifestyle March 11, 2014 Delft dawg The newest addition to Babylonstoren is a giant sculpture of a dog by artist Frank van Reenen and interior decorator Tracy Lee Lynch. The mutt is currently covered in bird feed, but as that is chomped by its feathered friends, a Delft pattern will show. Full Article
Design Fixie fantasia at Guild Design March 7, 2014 Fixie fantasia at Guild Africa’s first international design fair, Guild runs until Sunday 9 March in Cape Town. Make sure to get down there and be part of history in the making. For one thing, there’s the most desirable bicycle in South Africa on show. Full Article
Decor Design’s been punked Decor February 27, 2014 Design’s been punked A WDC2014 project, the Yenza: Make It! project is celebrating self-made objects, sourced from homes in some of Cape Town’s informal settlements, which prioritise function over style and celebrate the sheer human ingenuity that is born of basic need. Full Article
