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  • Index: award winners share all
    Creative Work • 9 Sep 11
    The winners of the prestigious INDEX: 2011 Award talk about their designs that all work to improve life. >
  • (Death) Bok fever
    Creative Work • 9 Sep 11
    Show your support for the Boks with a cool T-shirt design by Deathbok. >
  • “We will never forget”
    Point of View • 9 Sep 11
    The 9/11 Memorial Plaza by architect Michael Arad opens in New York on the 10-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. >
  • Keeping track
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    KiBiSi's "Tracks" headphones makes for an easy fit and can be customised to your liking. >
  • Manuscripts (Seats of Poerty) by Paul Cocksedge Studio.
    Seats of poetry
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    The "Manuscripts" (Seats of Poetry) by Paul Cocksedge is an installation that highlights an exchange of words, poetry and knowledge between two cultures. >
  • Creative Week Cape Town
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    Creative Week Cape Town starts today with a choc-a-bloc programme of creatively inspriring events, exhibitions, walking tours and workshops. >
  • Paste street exhibition.
    Paste
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    "Paste" is a community art project that takes creativity out the gallery and onto the streets of Cape Town and Khayelitsha. >
  • Kyneburgh Tower by Tom Price.
    Flowing tower
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    Two public artworks by Tom Price in the Gloucester city centre refer to the invisible histories of the site. >
  • The Special Danger
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    In his first solo exhibition, The Special Danger, Givan Lötz looks to conflated ideas of death, sex and spirituality. >
  • Crystal cathedral at London2011
    Creative Work • 8 Sep 11
    The "Perspectives" installation in the Geometric Staircase of St Paul's Cathedral in London offers a different view of this architectural masterpiece. >
  • Cartier Time Art by Tokujin Yoshioka.
    Art of time
    Creative Work • 7 Sep 11
    Cartier Time Art, art directed by Tokujin Yoshioka, celebrates the technological innovation and beauty of Cartier timepieces. >
  • Glitch fiction
    Creative Work • 7 Sep 11
    Glitch Fiction at Paris Design Week looks at what happens in the space between the everyday and infuences on our extrasensory perception. >
  • Modular Fabrication for UNStudio.
    Modular fabrication
    Creative Work • 7 Sep 11
    UNStudio’s Modular Fabrication looks to possibilities for composite materials in architecture. >
  • Novelty
    Creative Work • 6 Sep 11
    Renée Holleman's A Novel in Parts uses her neighbourhood as the departing point for exploring the spaces between. >
  • Space engagement
    Creative Work • 6 Sep 11
    Textile Field is a large installation by the Bouroullec Brothers that looks to a fresh way of experiencing a museum. >
  • Street lights
    Creative Work • 6 Sep 11
    sTREEt is a modular system that serves the multiple purpose of being street lights, shade, shelter and public benches, all in one. >
  • Hailee Rask, Harshad Velankara and professor David Mullin at Tulane University.
    Biofuel from newspapers
    Creative Work • 5 Sep 11
    What if cars could be fuelled by recycled newspapers? Well, perhaps if one adds TU-103, a new bacterial strain. Here's more about a potential new biofuel. >
  • Paul Budnitz Bicycle.
    Urban cycle
    Creative Work • 5 Sep 11
    Elegant, lightweight and super fast, this bicycle by Paul Budnitz Bicycles is ideal for the urban environment. >
  • AGI Open 2011 Barcelona
    Partnership with AGI Open
    Design Indaba News • 5 Sep 11
    Design Indaba is pleased to announce a media partnership with AGI Open 2011 Barcelona. >
  • Blog: Day 2 of Toffie Food
    Creative Work • 4 Sep 11
    The second day of the Toffie Food Festival saw Tammy Frazer talk of scent, Wolfgang Koedel of beer and world-famous blogger Julie Powell of butchery. >
  • Blog: Day 1 of Toffie Food
    Creative Work • 3 Sep 11
    Coffee gastronomy, a food taste tour of Madiba's life and an exploration of the oldest food culture in the world stand out on the first day of the Toffie Food f >
  • Ocean of Shit II by Conrad Botes.
    Temptations
    Creative Work • 3 Sep 11
    Conrad Botes’s The Temptation to Exist explores and questions the human desire to exist in the world as we know it. >
  • Yarn bBombing in Cape Town by Isabeau Jourbert. Photo: Ed Basson.
    Knitting pretty
    Creative Work • 2 Sep 11
    Add a dash of colour and creativity to a lamp post, tree or dustbin near. Yarn Bombing is what it's all about. >
  • Dragon Tail Lamp by Luisa Robinson for Design By Hive.
    Dragon spikes
    Creative Work • 2 Sep 11
    Origami techniques are used to craft oyster paper into gorgeous lamp shades that resemble the tail of a dragon. >

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