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Tom Dixon works across lighting, furniture as well as accessories
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
The British designer behind the iconic S-chair will be returning to the Design Indaba stage next week!
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13 Feb 18
A photographer is building a photographic ark of animals before they go extinct
Design News
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore's project The Photo Ark currently holds photos of over 6500 distinct animal species.
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5 Jun 17
The first bee born in captivity
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Design Thinking
The Synthetic Apiary proposes an alternative living arrangement for bees.
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17 Oct 16
Tyneside lounger by David Irwin
Product Spotlight
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Industrial Design
The Irish designer's timber chair for Deadgood began life as cinema seating.
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2 Oct 14
Tom Dixon on the world’s most expensive vibrator
Talks
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Product Design
Tom Dixon talks about his work, from starting as a welder to designing the world’s most expensive vibrator.
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3 Dec 10
The Conran mind
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
Home is where the heart is the old adage goes. And this is certainly true for Sir Terence Conran.
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28 Aug 10
A bug's life
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Insects are an important part of our biodiversity. Arup provides them five-star treatment with the Insect Hotel.
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15 Jul 10
The Bouroullec Brothers at DI2010
Festival News
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Product Design
Innovation and originality are the calling cards for Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec.
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11 Dec 09
Sir Terence Conran
Sir Terence Conran is one of the world’s best-known designers, restauranteurs and retailers.
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14 Feb 09
Simon Sankarayya
Simon Sankarayya is the founder of award-winning interactive design and user-experience agency AllofUs and the president of D&AD.
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14 Feb 09
Tom Dixon
Tom Dixon OBE is a self-taught product designer, based in London.
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12 Feb 09
Online innovation
Design News
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Interaction Design
Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies.
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1 May 07
Tom Dixon design maverick
Q&A
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Product Design
Celebrated UK designer Tom Dixon was born in Africa - in Sfax, Tunisia, to be exact. So we proudly claim him as one of our own.
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1 Aug 05
Life in design
Dialogues
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Sean O'Toole spoke to Sir Terence about his extraordinary achievements, asking him how he would like to be remembered one day.
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1 Feb 03
From sir with love
Opinion
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Product Design
Sir Terence Conran, England's pioneering design innovator, requires little introduction.
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1 Nov 02
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