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Woolworths: Driving design into the future
Do Tank News
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23 Feb 07
Among the many faces at Design Indaba there's one that virtually every delegate will recognise at a glance.
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Design Indaba brings low-cost housing to disadvantaged families
Do Tank News
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9 Mar 07
At least 10 disadvantaged Western Cape families are to receive homes designed by leading South African and international architects.
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Design Indaba 2007 retrospective
Festival News
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19 Mar 07
Redefining the world became the key idea at a conference and expo with some of the world's most revolutionary and discerning creative minds
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The Ultimate Guide to Local Design out now
Design News
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20 Mar 07
The Ultimate Guide to Local Design brings together South Africa's best designs and designers who exhibited at the Design Indaba Expo 2007.
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Man about town
Inside View
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22 Mar 07
During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis.
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Design Indaba 10… Ideas
Festival News
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1 May 07
Not accepting the status quo was a recurring theme at the tenth Design Indaba in Cape Town this year.
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Design of the times
Festival News
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1 May 07
Massimo and Lella Vignelli received a standing ovation at the 2007 Design Indaba for their retrospective presentation.
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Super normal
Design News
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1 May 07
Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics.
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Online innovation
Design News
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1 May 07
Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies.
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Global Buyers Trek to Expo
Festival News
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1 May 07
This year's Design Indaba Expo attracted a record 137 registered buyers, 66 of them international.
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Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG
Design News
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1 May 07
Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever.
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Fanfest by King James RSVP
Design News
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1 May 07
King James RSVP proposes that our local taxis and taxi drivers become the hosts and ambassadors to the tourists.
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Fanfest proposal by Grid
Opinion
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1 May 07
"If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests.
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The brief: Fan your passion 2010
Design News
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1 May 07
South Africa will host one of the world's greatest sporting events in only three years time - the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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DIS 2008: Designing Interactive Systems
Digital News
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15 May 07
The conference on Designing Interactive Systems – DIS 2008 – is the first main SIGCHI conference to be held in Africa.
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A Kyoto treaty for design
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.
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New old solutions
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
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Waste not want not
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
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Buying green back
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
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Sustainable = humanist
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.
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Electric avenue
Q&A
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1 Aug 07
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.
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How many designers does it take to change the light?
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.
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Carpet bombing
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.
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Flotsam and jetsam
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
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