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Tech that reawakens awe – studio DRIFT's kinetic installations to light up #DI2020
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Interaction Design
The multidisciplinary studio will be speaking at Design Indaba 2020.
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11 Dec 19
Lucy Feng’s work plays with African mysticism and modern Afropunk culture
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Art & Photography
Called ‘The Strangelings’, the images moodily blend the surreal and the regal.
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3 Jul 17
Selly Raby Kane's "Birds of Dakar" collection
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Birds of a feather flock with denizens of the deep in experimental fashion designer Selly Raby Kane's Fall/Winter 2015 collection.
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10 Jun 15
Stefan Sagmeister: Bring the personal and the human into design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Stefan Sagmeister talks about 'The Happy Film', his studio and his advice to young designers. Please note: this film contains nudity.
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15 Oct 13
Dominic Harris: Lighting can transform mood
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Product Design
“Lighting can transform the mood of a person,” says Dominic Harris. He believes in using lighting to achieve advanced effects.
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19 Oct 12
Cultural magnetism
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Director of the Museum of Architecture, Design and Urbanism in Mexico, Regina Pozo Ruiz gives a whistle-stop-tour of contemporary design.
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3 Aug 11
Roughing it at Milan2011
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Design Thinking
Rough & Ready is an experimental range of furniture inspired by explorations of the unpredictable.
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19 Apr 11
Oded Ezer
“My name is Oded Ezer and I am a typoholic”, is how typographer, type designer, artist and teacher Oded Ezer introduces himself.
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30 Nov 10
Beverley Price
Beverley Price is a jewellery artist who lives in Johannesburg.
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14 Feb 09
Oog on Droog
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Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry.
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1 Aug 06
Designers forum Q&A
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Delve into your favourite designers' minds and find out what makes their creative juices flow.
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1 Aug 04
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