Higher Education in South Africa
(ISBN 978-1-920338-14-5)
Editor: Eli Bitzer
Publication date: October 2009

This title should be of considerable interest to higher education researchers outside South Africa. The researchers have engaged with research and writing from many parts of the world, which they have then applied to make sense of their own condition.

- Malcolm Tight, Lancaster University, UK

TUT (Tshwane University of Technology) annual year-end fashion show has to be the next best thing to unearthing fashion talent in Gauteng. This year's brief was to work with the global ethnicity theme and it was conscious fashion as the students had to interpret different world cultures provided in a five-minute documentary in their collections.

IDSA, BusinessWeek, Target and Autodesk proudly present the winners of the 2009 International Design Excellence Award (IDEA) competition. Out of 1631 entries, 31 were awarded the coveted Gold award, while 47 received Silver awards and 72 won Bronze awards, while 349 finalists were named in addition to the winners.

This year the Red Dot Awards will give away up to 50 free registrations for the “red dot award: product design 2010” to up-and-coming designers. We are calling independent designers who have obtained their academic qualifications within the past 5 years (a copy of the degree will be accepted as proof). Designers can submit industrially manufactured products that were brought to market after 1 January 2008 and went into series production prior to 1 July 2010.