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Three little pigs
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Product Design
Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter.
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1 Jun 10
Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit.
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31 May 10
Versatile Velcro
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Product Design
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Craft
Velcro has been used in everything from heart surgery to nuclear power plants and disposable nappies. Rachel O’Neill brings it to design.
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31 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Woza Moya / Hillcrest Aids
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Craft
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Design Thinking
The Hillcrest Aids Centre Trust was established in 1991 offering testing and counselling to the local communities outside Durban.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Springleap.com
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If a T-shirt is the staple garment in everyone’s wardrobe, then it makes sense for designers to use it as a platform for expression.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture
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Product Design
Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Michelle Ludik
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Step into a department store to buy clothes and you’re confronted with every possible style of design, yet never quite the style...
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: BOUSQUET Creations
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Combine design, beauty, a lot of waste material and a fresh look at the old, and you get innovation that brings a smile to your face.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: blue collar white collar
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If you’re looking for exclusively tailored casual and formal shirts of the highest standard, then you can stop looking.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Ayesha Kamalie
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Architecture & Interiors
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
Ayesha Kamalie isn’t just a painter, or a fashion designer, or a product designer. She’s all of these, as well as a qualified architect.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Cupcake Country
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Craft
There’s nothing more delicious than a freshly baked cupcake, straight out the oven and covered in gloriously thick sugary icing.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: User Design
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
As the world lifts itself from the rubble left by the economic downturn, design is taking a new turn and looking to new inspiration.
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30 May 10
Pluggin easy
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
An ingenious plug design shows that the best designs are those that are the most simple and functional.
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28 May 10
Green city installations for Seed Cathedral
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Interaction Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Some interesting additions have been made to the UK Pavilion's already spectacular Seed Cathedral at the Shanghai Expo.
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28 May 10
Dreaming of a green wedding
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Design Thinking
There's finally an eco-friendly alternative to that classic garment that usually only gets worn once.
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27 May 10
Behind the bars
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
A creative project in Pollsmoor Prison is teaching valuable social and developmental skills to youths.
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27 May 10
Setting sail
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Architecture & Interiors
Yinka Shonibare's delicately crafted ship in a bottle is on public display in London and is bound to have children and adults fascinated.
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26 May 10
Beyond tomorrow
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
Sustainability is all the rage. Check out how designers are contributing to the global objective.
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26 May 10
Brazil's got the solar power tower
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
It might look like something that belongs to a futuristic movie, but it may well become a symbol of Brazil’s commitment to a sustainability.
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26 May 10
Bruce Marks at the Edge Glass Gallery
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Product Design
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Craft
Renowned South African-born glass artist, Bruce Marks will be exhibiting his work at the Edge Glass Gallery in Cape Town.
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25 May 10
Comic relief
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Sometimes South Africans need to sit back and have a good ol' laugh at themselves. The group exhibition Foul! helps the laughing along.
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24 May 10
The Synthetic Kingdom
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Interaction Design
The Synthetic Kingdom by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg considers how natural or unnatural life will be classified when life is built by humans.
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24 May 10
Bedroom Biology for Teenagers
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Interaction Design
Dearbhaile Heaney’s Bedroom Biology for Teenagers is a guide to biological experimentation within the home using engineered bacteria.
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24 May 10
Cellularity
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Interaction Design
Cellularity by James King explores the development of cell-like structures, or “chells” that mimic the features of biological cells.
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24 May 10
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