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Given its associations with decaying hill stations and hippy hovels, rattan furniture has not traditionally had good press. But in Philippine designer Kenneth Cobonpue, kennethcobopue.com, the material may have found its first great virtuoso. The 37-year-old alumnus of New York City's Pratt Institute has been garnering kudos - most recently a 2005 Design[an error occurred while processing this directive] for Asia Award - from his studio in the sun-splashed city of Cebu (a place better known for its azure ocean and impossibly sweet mangos). Now the big time beckons. Brad Pitt recently bought Cobonpue's Voyage...
...when a kid will look at the classic telephone, with its keypad, clunky handset and curly pigtail cord, and ask, "What is that?" A phone today can come in any shape, as long as it's a tiny one. Vonage's latest design is as simple as a USB keychain drive. OK, so it requires a PC, but it can be used with any Internet-connected Windows PC- without any software setup...
BAGGING IT Shaun Jackson Design's Higher Ground laptop bags are light, compact and cleverly configured to obviate the need for a desk. Several of the small company's cool cases are marketed toward students but serve business travelers equally well...
...PALESA MADUMO, advertising executive First hit the Design Quarter, pictured, Jo'burg's newest and hippest shopping mall at Fourways in the north. You can eat or have a drink at the Kitchen Bar, which is divided into a restaurant at the bottom and a club area at the top. It's new so it's still fun. If you want good African food, head to Nambitha in Soweto. It has a vibe you can't quite get anywhere else, very friendly...
...trade, transport and postal services with China. Without direct flights, it takes us six to seven hours to fly from Taipei to Shanghai, so we've effectively moved Taipei to where Jakarta is. Can you think of anything more stupid than that? We're very strong in R&D, design, incubation and marketing, but it's too expensive to manufacture in Taiwan anymore, so there should be a division of labor between Taiwan and the mainland...