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Cape Town feminist clothing brand on moving beyond t-shirts
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The founders of C(l)it on unlearning their white privilege and next steps
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30 Jun 17
Lucky types
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Cape Town-based LuckyFella clothing label produces limited-edition T-shirts that allow typography to exist in the real world.
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7 Dec 11
Re-Tee
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Design Thinking
Project Repat sends discarded T-shirts from America to be upcycled in developing countries, to be sold back to American customers, with all profits to NGOs.
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2 Dec 11
May the force be with you
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Craft
Inspired by space, designed on Earth, Mingo Lamberti’s new range of T-shirts brings a strong force with it.
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26 Oct 10
Over your head
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The best way to support your favourite players during the World Cup might be to pull their faces over your head, literally.
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16 Jun 10
Keeping it “Afrikan”
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Muti, by Clinton and Carrick Campbell, is a clothing label that embodies the African heritage and is without a doubt 100% South African.
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24 Mar 10
AuthenticiTEE
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba Expo 2010: Mingo Lamberti's Made in China winners form part of the Eastern-inspired seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts.
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10 Feb 10
Mingo Lamberti winners exhibition
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Mingo Lamberti will be launching their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts on 3 December at 6pm at Happy Feet in Cape Town.
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19 Nov 09
Afro hipster
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Alexander Derrick’s American and Mauritanian roots shape the thinking behind his Zulu Rose fashion brand.
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7 Sep 09
Siblings bring music to T-shirts
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit.
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15 Aug 09
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China
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Craft
Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009.
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2 Aug 09
Hands-free viral
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile.
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1 Aug 09
Hot foreigners in Jozi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi.
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1 Nov 08
Tees for trees
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation.
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1 Nov 08
Waste not want not
Opinion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
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1 Aug 07
Fashion revolution
Opinion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
After centuries of international copying, the past decade has proved revolutionary for SA fashion, writes Adam Levin.
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1 May 06
Drawing blanks
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Go to any city in South Africa and take a look at what's hanging on the lampposts. Not much, really.
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1 May 02
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