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Pecha Kucha in SA
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South Africa's first Pecha Kucha design open-mic event presented eight local creatives, hosted at the Whatiftheworld Gallery.
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12 Aug 08
Fashion week frenzy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The fashion week season saw fashion shows galore delighting audiences at the Durban, Johannesburg and then Cape Town Fashion Weeks.
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12 Aug 08
Hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on student design
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Design Thinking
The winners of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Achievers student awards were announced on Youth Day, June 16.
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12 Aug 08
Green house for green skin
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Biodegradable body product range Jozi O have expanded into a brand new environmentally friendly building, named the Energy Works.
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12 Aug 08
The green design race
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Design Thinking
Cape Town creative agency the Design Works goes green, encouraging their clients to become more environmentally aware.
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12 Aug 08
Princesses have backsides too
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Product Design
Inspired by the princess and pea story, Doshi Levien's Principessa daybed consists of many thin mattress layers.
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12 Aug 08
Come on, let's twist again!
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Architecture & Interiors
Dubai will be home to the world's first rotating skyscraper, the so-called Dynamic Tower, designed by Italian architect Dr David Fisher.
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12 Aug 08
Garden furniture for good
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Environmental design studio Orange 22 in Los Angeles has launched the Botanist Blank Canvas Project, which raises money for charity.
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12 Aug 08
Yves is for the children
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Product Design
Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth.
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12 Aug 08
Fashion unions take to the street
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Grabbing public attention in May, the SA Clothing and Textile Workers' Union (SACTWU) took the Cape Town Fashion Festival to the streets.
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12 Aug 08
Business for fashion students
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, aimed at empowering young fashion designers with business mentoring, have announced the 2008 winners.
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12 Aug 08
Sinking into beauty
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Architecture & Interiors
Design Indaba alumnus Ilse Crawford, tasked with designing the Aesop shop pairs modern interventions with endearing revival.
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12 Aug 08
Edelkoort leaves Eindhoven
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Design Thinking
Li Edelkoort resigned as chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland after 10 years in this role, but will remain affiliated.
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12 Aug 08
Brick-and-mortar design shop
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Food Design
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books.
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12 Aug 08
From Talking Heads to singing building
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Architecture & Interiors
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Music & Sound Design
David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building.
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1 Aug 08
From Surface to Parsons
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Design Thinking
Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School.
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1 Aug 08
Line drawings and delicate porcelains
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer.
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1 Aug 08
Twee tees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real.
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1 Aug 08
Design votes out Mugabe
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg.
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1 Aug 08
Sunflower power
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece.
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1 Aug 08
Puff and pass
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Creative Economy
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Music & Sound Design
The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4.
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1 Aug 08
Orchestrating chaos
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Product Design
Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp.
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1 Aug 08
The house that Pancho built
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Architecture & Interiors
Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent.
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1 Aug 08
On the virtual edge
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Interaction Design
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Creative Economy
The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK.
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2 May 08
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