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Dreams woven in raffia
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African Design
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A trip to Bolgatanga in northern Ghana to meet the women who weave A A K S’s sought-after raffia bags.
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14 Nov 14
Window shopping at the Watershed
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We popped by the newly opened Watershed at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town to check out some of the gorgeous local design and craft on sale.
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9 Nov 14
Basotho blankets go north
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Emerging fashion designer Thabo Makhetha launched her modern take on the Basotho blanket at Vancouver Fashion Week 2014.
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8 Nov 14
The evolution of Taibo Bacar
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Mozambican fashion designer Taibo Bacar's latest colourful collection signals an evolutionary shift in his eponymous label.
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6 Nov 14
David Tlale's second take on Vlisco
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The South African fashion designer's latest collection juxtaposes lavish Java prints with tailored structure at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Africa.
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3 Nov 14
City hacks for #makechange
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Art & Photography
Our Instagram competition to win a copy of Andrew Shoben's book closes on Friday. Here are some of the entries so far.
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29 Oct 14
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits.
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28 Oct 14
Island style
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Product Design
The bespoke furniture collection that put Fogo Island on the map is now available globally.
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24 Oct 14
On their knees
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We Make Carpets, a trio of Dutch artists, recreates 50 of their 'temporary' carpets out of everyday objects for Dutch Design Week 2014.
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22 Oct 14
Tile style
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Product Design
We round up the top five tiles trends that emerged at the recent Cersaie international exhibition of ceramic tiles in Bologna, Italy.
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13 Oct 14
Africa through the lens
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African Design
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The winning work from the third annual POPCAP photography competition celebrates new visions of Africa.
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11 Oct 14
Industrial dreams
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The director David Lynch's black and white photographs of factories affirm his penchant for dark, surreal imagery.
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4 Oct 14
Crawly couture
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
It might make us twitchy, but Hendrik Vermeulen's latest fashion collection is inspired by the intricate patterns of insects.
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3 Oct 14
Walls that talk
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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
Lattice work
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African Design
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Industrial Design
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Cape Town-based Leg Studios launches a range of decor products inspired by nomadic African patterns.
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25 Sep 14
Bag it
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The cheap "China bag" has become a symbol of migration in Africa – and a popular material for artists and designers to reimagine.
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23 Sep 14
Crafted elements
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Craft
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Lina Kanafani's London Design Festival show brings together diverse work illustrating the impact of craft on the design process.
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13 Sep 14
Touch wood
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Architecture & Interiors
The finalists for the first "Wood Excellence Prize" at the World Architecture Festival take the creative application of wood to new heights.
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3 Sep 14
A multilingual typeface
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Azer, co-designed by Wael Morcos, is a family of fonts that can be used in Arabic script, English and Latin variations.
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2 Sep 14
Camera Obscura
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African Design
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The upcoming LagosPhoto Festival highlights photography that imagines alternative African realities and obscures the medium's role as truth-teller.
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2 Sep 14
New work by Daniel Ting Chong
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African Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cheeky, bouncy and bold – here's a sampling of this prolific Cape Town-based designer's recent work.
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25 Aug 14
Lookbook: Inside Cape Town's modernist textile factories
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Architecture & Interiors
An Open House Architecture tour offers a rare glimpse inside the iconic buildings that were at the centre of the city's rag trade.
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18 Aug 14
Lookbook: Common Methods First Edition
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African Design
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South African and Dutch designers collaborated to create a range of products that experiments with bronze and leather.
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15 Aug 14
Lookbook: AngloGold Ashanti AuDITIONS
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Kristen Malan’s “Halo” headpiece wins the AngloGold Ashanti AuDITIONS gold jewellery design competition.
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14 Aug 14
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