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Blinky Bill talks socially conscious music and breaking free of genre constraints
Video Interviews
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Music & Sound Design
The former Just a Band frontman gets in depth about the power of music.
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23 Aug 17
Isabel Mager on how the making of tech devices carry untold human value
Video Interviews
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Design Thinking
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Industrial Design
This designer explores design mechanisms broadly and how they affect culture and way of life.
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18 Aug 17
Aeon Flux: An animated future from the past
Opinion
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Film & Animation
The 1991 brainchild of Peter Chung seems more thought-provoking now than ever before.
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15 Aug 16
Tomas Kral
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
ECAL graduate Tomas Kral talks about designing a luxury tea set for his graduation project and integrating craft and industrial design.
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27 Jul 11
Solar Sinter
Design News
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Interaction Design
What if sand and sunlight could be used as the raw energy and material to produce glass objects using 3D printers?
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25 Jul 11
Plain Clay
Design News
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Product Design
Maarten Baas's Plain Clay designs aim to be accessible to more people.
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15 Jul 11
M-Collection at Milan2011
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Design duo Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe talk about their design process and designing modular furniture systems.
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28 Apr 11
Blog: Students push materials at Milan2011
Design News
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Students from Bezalel, Royal College of Arts and Central St Martins show how to push the parameters of materials at Ventura Lambrate.
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11 Apr 11
Tord Boontje on nature and creativity
Talks
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Craft
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Product Design
Design is intricately linked to making, creativity and the future says Tord Boontje.
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29 Mar 11
Carl Lamprecht interview by Marius vd Merwe
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Marius van der Merwe interviews Carl Lamprecht for his contribution to the Design Indaba Film Crew 2011.
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8 Feb 11
Baskets for bread
Design News
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Product Design
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Craft
Basket Case celebrated the crafting skills of basket makers in Zimbabwe recently.
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27 Dec 10
Album treasures
Design News
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Product Design
The Bouroullec Brothers present an "Album" exhibition of their work, which is like a journey through their creative treasure trove.
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15 Dec 10
Commonwealth on bridging the divide
Talks
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Architecture & Interiors
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Industrial Design
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Commonwealth talk about the process of bridging the divide between designing and making objects.
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12 Jul 10
Cereal assemblage
Design News
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Interaction Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Sascha Pohflepp examined the potential of synthetic biology to be used to grow products.
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1 Nov 09
Grown tables
Design News
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Product Design
A tree is a product of its specific time and place.
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1 Nov 09
Design Indaba magazine crafts the future
Do Tank News
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Craft
The Q109 edition of Design Indaba magazine, “The Cr*ft", celebrates the slow making, culturally sensitive, hand-touched qualities of craft.
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11 Feb 09
Craft debate: Inga Sempé
Design News
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Product Design
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Craft
Product designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Inga Sempé weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
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1 Feb 09
Labour of love
Opinion
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne.
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1 May 05
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