We’re bringing colour back.

Design is a good idea will be stocking a colourful new selection of Pantone® products, just in time for Spring.

Brand new spring colour range of coffee mugs, limited edition Espresso mug gift sets, awesome notebooks, purses, umbrella’s, etc… So brighten up and stay tuned… we can’t wait for Spring to spring.

Design is a good idea x Pantone® poster designed by QZ&BC.

Almost Spring!

Join us and everyone else at 44 Stanley for Spring Celebrations in September.

All stores will be open, and you can look forward to good food, art, entertainment, live music and other springtime fun.

Stay tuned for more info.

Poster designed by QZ&BC. © Design is a good idea, 2010.

Flyer designed by Andrea Kleinloog at Anatomy Design.

For the love of Jozi.

We are happy to be stocking the authentic Love Jozi designed lazer-cut coat and key racks in a range of colours and sizes very soon.

There are a lot of knock-offs of these floating around, but these are the original and best versions we’ve seen. We will also be stocking a selection of Love Jozi postcards and other interesting bits and pieces, so stay tuned.

Decorate your walls.

All decorative lazer cut wall hanging’s by Hart are now on sale at Design is a good idea at special reduced prices to make room for a new range from LoveJozi that we are happy to be stocking very soon.

Please pop in and have a look.

Don’t get a complex.

This is probably more exciting news for us than anyone else, but we just received some of the latest test files for our series of Millisecond vases.

Even though 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping are bleeding edge technologies that will without a doubt change the future of design, there is still an awful lot of very heavy duty technical geekery involved in pulling a project off properly.

We are refining the models and fool-proofing the geometry to make the vases as strong and functional as possible… a flower vase that leaks would be rather pointless.

Note: The red bits are currently what is causing Maya to crash, ZEdit to melt, and our poor 3D modeller’s nose to bleed. You will require a PHD in physics (or a close friendship with Stephen Hawking) to understand the rest of the techobabble.