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Berna Buys
Berna Buys is a South African fashion designer.
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12 Dec 19
Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers
Quagga Fabrics and Wallpapers mix traditional design principles with contemporary trends.
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7 Nov 14
Ed Suter launches wallpaper
Product Spotlight
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Product Design
The Cape Town-based photographer brings the vibrant style of Africa's street life and tropical climate indoors.
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14 Oct 14
Walls that talk
Lookbook
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Robin Sprong Wallpaper wants to plaster your walls in pattern. Here are three recent collaborations with locally based designers.
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29 Sep 14
Eddie Opara: Who am I and what do I do as a designer?
Video Interviews
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Interaction Design
Graphic designer Eddie Opara gives insight into what makes him who he is and what he does as a designer.
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7 Dec 12
Wall & all
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Kist's gorgeous range of fabrics and wallpaper is ideal for brightening up any indoor space, and adding a unique South African touch.
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21 Feb 12
Blog: Day 2 of AGI Open Barcelona
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Questions, answers and happiness were considered on the final day of the AGI Open in Barcelona. There was even a song and dance to end it off.
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5 Oct 11
Red green blue
Design News
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Italian design duo Carnovsky takes their RGB technique to London with La Selva, exploring the jungle environment.
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26 Aug 11
Do good work at DI2011
Festival News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Doing work of the highest quality characterises the creative output of Bibliotheque's studio in London.
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15 Dec 10
Meet the Minksters
Design News
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Product Design
The Minksters are more than just adorable little characters, they're also super useful USB flashdrives.
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26 Nov 10
Flow chart
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
There's something very romantic about winemaking depicted as a linear process against a wall.
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8 Nov 10
Treasure chest
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design Kist is an interesting new online design studio to showcase the work of South African creatives.
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2 Nov 10
Whispering walls
Design News
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Anne Kyyrö Quinn’s unique designs may qualify as the world’s most beautiful sound-proof wall panels.
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9 Oct 10
Journey through Jo'Burg
Reviews
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Jo'burg is a place of harsh contrasts and with fast pace. But it's also full of hidden treasures, as the Wallpaper* guide points out.
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24 Sep 10
The Republic of Cape Town
Reviews
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
It’s a local joke that Cape Town is a republic of its own. The Wallpaper* City Guide gives some hints as to why.
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4 Aug 10
Jazz up your iPhone
Design News
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Music & Sound Design
Granimator is a cool new iPhone app that allows you to make your own musical wallpaper.
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30 Jun 10
Like an illusion
Design News
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
A series of wallpapers representing a metamorphosis reveals some unexpected and disorientating images.
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29 Jun 10
The future is entertaining
Reviews
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Creative Economy
Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity.
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2 Jun 10
CD: Shaka Won
Reviews
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won.
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28 Nov 09
Witty wallpaper
Design News
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Product Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness.
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1 Nov 08
The road to Wallpaper
Q&A
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
Interview with Tyler Brûlé, founder of *Wallpaper magazine.
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1 May 03
Bright Ideo
Lookbook
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa is a designer with the innovative design firm IDEO.
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1 Nov 02
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