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  • Kitchen excellence
    Creative Work • 22 Oct 11
    Patricia Urquiola designed the interiors for luxury kitchen brand Scholtès's new flagship space in London. >
  • Well protected
    Creative Work • 22 Oct 11
    Talk about protecting your assets, the Lady Killer Vol 1 is a forceful little robot that works to protect your rings. >
  • Stefan Sagmeister at AGI Open 2011
    Stefan Sagmeister at AGI Open 2011
    Interviews • Duration: 00:04:04 • 21 Oct 11
    Stefan Sagmeister talks about his self-experimental film on happiness, The Happy Film. >
  • Well strung
    Creative Work • 21 Oct 11
    Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures. >
  • Christoph Niemann at AGI Open 2011
    Christoph Niemann at AGI Open 2011
    Interviews • 20 Oct 11
    Putting yourself in an extreme situation leads to more unexpected creative results, Christoph Niemann finds. >
  • Pieces of mind
    Creative Work • 20 Oct 11
    Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind. >
  • Means to an end
    Creative Work • 20 Oct 11
    Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma. >
  • Marina Willer and Angus Hyland at AGI Open 2011
    Marina Willer and Angus Hyland at AGI Open 2011
    Interviews • 20 Oct 11
    Angus Hyland and Marina Willer talk about designing identities and the unsung heroes of graphic design. >
  • Kleurentaart. Photo: Peggy Janssen.
    Colour with veggies
    Creative Work • 19 Oct 11
    "Kleurentaart" is a cake made with vegetables to explore the possibilities of using food and colour in a variety of ways. >
  • Graphic design now
    Creative Work • 19 Oct 11
    Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more. >
  • Earth building
    Creative Work • 19 Oct 11
    A single-storey house in Japan is built with bricks made using the local soil and magnesium oxide. It explores the use of regional building solutions. >
  • Visual broadcast
    Interviews • 19 Oct 11
    The Broadcasts exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban is a "visual mouthpiece", illustrating people's thoughts on important issues. >
  • Story telling
    Creative Work • 18 Oct 11
    Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time. >
  • Wining and dining
    Creative Work • 18 Oct 11
    The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed. >
  • Floating orchestra
    Creative Work • 18 Oct 11
    The gravity-defying Floating Orchestra is a different kind of musical experience with the user in the role of a supernatural conductor. >
  • Knitting with bacteria
    Creative Work • 17 Oct 11
    The Textured Self by Sonja Bäumel uses bacteria to demonstrate how different forms of life work together to make the human body function. >
  • New rules of work
    Creative Work • 17 Oct 11
    Employees pay attention: The New Rules of Work are that decaf has been criminalised... and other workplace truths and absurdities. >
  • Moving craft
    Creative Work • 16 Oct 11
    BarberOsgerby's "Ascent" collection of work at the Frieze Art Fair in London is inspired by the duo's interest in moving craft. >
  • Save the post office
    Creative Work • 15 Oct 11
    Tucker Nichols has some clever ideas for tag lines that might endear people to snail mail and the post office again. >
  • Sensory dining
    Creative Work • 14 Oct 11
    Secret Sensory Suppers take the dining experience to a new ritualistic level, exploring the relationship between food, sight, scent and sound. >
  • Bouroullec retrospective
    Creative Work • 14 Oct 11
    Bivouac is the first major retrospective of the work of the Bouroullec Brothers at the Centre Pompidou-Metz. >
  • Usuals collection
    Creative Work • 14 Oct 11
    Usuals is a range of domestic products by Van Eijk and Van der Lubbe that looks to simplicity and functionality. >
  • 10 Years of Hat-trick
    Creative Work • 14 Oct 11
    In Brief is a small book, with lots of pages, celebrating Hat-trick's work of the past 10 years. >
  • Design and urbanisation exhibition
    Creative Work • 13 Oct 11
    Design with the Other 90%: Cities looks at how design can help to manage the complex issues arising from rapid urbanisation in the global south. >

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