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HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM DESIGN INDABA
Design Indaba wishes you safe, festive and happy holidays.
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DUNNE & RABY challenge the future at Design Indaba 2009
The shift from thinking about applications to implications creates a need for new design roles, contexts and methods.
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JAVIER MARISCAL returns to Design Indaba 2009
When people ask Javier Mariscal what he does for a living, he sometimes says he's a tightrope walker and other times he says he’s an acrobat – even when he uses the world of the circus to describe himself, he takes on several jobs.
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The fabulous Marcel Wanders at Design Indaba 2009
There’s very little in design that is bigger than Marcel Wanders. If his Knotted Chair and Crochet Series are his most iconic, then his most notorious must be his Airborne Snotty Vases, and his most anticipated, the new Mondrian South Beach hotel. The hotel is said to be an extension of the Sleeping Beauty fairytale – when we open our eyes after 100 years, everything will look fabulous!
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Keep it clean with Design Indaba 2009
Communication through promises, missions, brand DNA and value creation has become relatively risk-free. After all, the medium is the message, right? But in the end, the conglomeration of words and ideas must realise measurable results. So what is the message? AdamsMorioka maintain that a certain level of courage is necessary to produce something real.
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5.5 question the status quo at Design Indaba 2009
Who can be sure whether green or yellow is the best colour? Whether baroque or gothic is more appropriate? Serif or sans serif? Zig-zags or swirls? Minimalism or maximalism? Whether a designed object is really more valid than its mass produced counterpart? But then, what is design? Is it style or function? Process or end product? Bricks or wallpaper?
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Dai Fujiwara of Issey Miyake at Design Indaba 2009
Just last year, Dai Fujiwara unleashed his debut collection as creative director for Issey Miyake on the Paris runway. Of course, Issey Miyake addicts would have been following the rise of this young textile engineer since at least 1998, upon the launch of the award-winning A-Poc series.
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SOUTH deadline extended until December 8
Enter the SOUTH competition now and stand a chance to win R100 000. What's stopping you? Second place receives R50 000, third place receives R25 000 and all finalists will be included on the SOUTH exhibition, set to travel around South Africa and the world through 2009.
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AN EXHIBITION OF SUSS'TAINABLE DESIGN
Presented by the KZNSA Gallery in partnership with Design Indaba. Opens Sunday 16 November 2008 at 4pm with a performance by the South Jersey Pom-poms.
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One week to go...Submit for SOUTH next week!
The award is open to all creatives across all industries including advertising, design, film and video, music, performing arts, fashion design, new media, publishing, radio and television, industrial design, visual art, architecture and crafts.
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DESIGN INDABA CONFERENCE EARLY BIRD NOW OPEN
GET 10% OFF YOUR DESIGN INDABA CONFERENCE TICKET
when you take advantage of our Early Bird offer before 12 December.
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NAMPAK PACKAGING DESIGN CHALLENGE
Nampak invites all professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to compete in the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge and be acknowledged for creativity in the area of packaging and graphic design.
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Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
MMA Architects have won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-income housing challenge.
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Design Indaba September News
Architect Luyanda Mpahlwa from MMA Architects has been named one of five finalists in the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for the low-cost housing solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Housing project.
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Design takes a stand
Reading the newspapers these days can make one feel dejected about the state of the world and South Africa. The newest edition of Design Indaba magazine, "Tough Love", is dedicated to what creative love can bring to tough situations.
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Design Indaba's
Winning Streak
Design Indaba magazine received three awards at this year's Tabbies, the biggest international competition recognising excellence in business-to-business magazines.
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Visit the Design Indaba stand at the Cape Town Book Fair
Visit the Design Indaba stand at the Cape Town Book Fair from 14 to 17 June, 2008. We will be situated at stand Q713 in the small publishers' section, where we will be offering discounted prices on Design Indaba All Stars, the 2008 buyers guide and Design Indaba magazine.
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Drawing the line at serious fun
Both the local and international speakers at Design Indaba 2008 all concurred that design needs to tackle serious issues - but have fun while doing it. The newest edition of Design Indaba magazine, "Line Drawing", does just that - sideways.
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Design Indaba April 08 Updates
The Design Indaba All Stars book, recently published by Interactive Africa, celebrates 35 of the most prominent international guests that we have hosted at Design Indaba and featured in the magazine. Covering the first 10 years of Design Indaba, this book serves as a record of the growth of creativity at the cusp of the millennium.
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Creative Company Conference
Design Indaba has a new sister company in Europe called the Creative Company Conference (CCC). Distinct from Design Indaba, which celebrates the creative professional, the CCC honours innovative business leaders and companies that place innovation, creativity and design as central to their strategy.
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MOST CREATIVE STAND AT DESIGN INDABA 2008
Provincial Department of Economic Development and Tourism wins Most Creative Stand Award at the 2008 Design Indaba Cape Town. The stand of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism Creative Industries Strategy (DEDT Creative Industries) was selected as the Most Creative Stand at this year's Design Indaba Expo held at the Cape Town Convention Centre from 23-26 February 2008.
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Bunk beds win Most Beautiful Object in South Africa Award
Y. Tsai of Tsai Design Studio was announced as the winner of the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa at Design Indaba Expo on February 26, 2008. The Nested Bunk Bed received 150 of the 402 public votes cast during Design Indaba Expo.
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CNMA 2008 WINNERS
The CNMA 2008 award ceremony was held on Thursday 28 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, winners were announced by judged Patrick Burgoyne (Creative Review), Andries Odendaal and Alex Maclean (Airside). The Construction New Media Awards, now in its eighth year, celebrates and elevates the status of new media design by honouring and accrediting those designers, writers, programmers and thinkers who produce challenging, imaginative interactive work, both on a creative and a functional platform.
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Sappi and Design Indaba - together
for eight years
Now in its eleventh year, Design Indaba is considered one of the foremost design conferences in the world. Sappi is a proud sponsor and supplier to this leading design showcase.
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STOP PRESS: Architecture Specialist Indaba for R500
Due to a glitch in communications between ourselves and the ticketing vendor, the prices for the Architecture Specialist Indaba were incorrectly stated. It should actually be at the same price as last year, which is R500. Refunds to those who have already paid will be made at the door.
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Design Indaba 2008
Fact sheet
Design Indaba will fortify as the South African Design Week in 2008, with the Expo and Conference programme running over a week from Saturday 23 February to Friday 29 February at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
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African Carbon Trust
Design Indaba 2008 will again offset the carbon footprint of its conference, for the third year now.
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SABC at Design Indaba 2008
True to its values of creating conversations and partnerships, restoring human dignity and building a common future, the SABC not only renewed its media partnership with Design Indaba in 2008, but also announced sole sponsorship of the fashion arena and founding sponsorship of the Creative Alliance Project, commiting to growing local creative excellence.
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Design Indaba 10x10:
Ten houses for Freedom Park
Design Indaba's 10x10 Housing Project is pleased to announce that building has started on the designated plots in Freedom Park.
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Design Indaba 2008:
Most Beautiful Object in South Africa
The finalists for Design Indaba's Most Beautiful Object in South Africa award have been announced. Place your vote via SMS at the Design Indaba Expo from February 23 to 26, 2008, or vote on The Times website.
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Design Indaba Conference 2008:
Sold out, but book for the simulcast
We did it again... With more than a week to go still, Design Indaba Conference from February 27 to 29, 2008, has sold out for the fourth year in a row.
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Design Indaba magazine announces
Cape Town DC - as in Design Central
With the approximately 3 000 Design Indaba Conference visitors and more than 20 000 Design Indaba Expo visitors due to descend on Cape Town from February 23 to 29, 2008, the newest issue of Design Indaba magazine celebrates its Mother City in "Cape Town DC".
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Design Indaba 2008:
Font cult movie premieres in South Africa
Design Indaba is pleased to present the South African premiere of Helvetica – a film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. Running concurrently with the Design Indaba Expo, Helvetica will be showing from February 22 to 27, 2008, at 8.30pm in the Labia Theatre on Orange Street.
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Design Indaba Journalism Workshop:
Book now!
The interest and enthusiasm surrounding the announcement of the first Design Indaba Journalism Workshop from February 23 to 26, 2008, has been astonishing. With less than two weeks to go, places are filling up fast.
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Design Indaba Expo 2008:
Fashion Mix Masala
Local fashion has come to represent a conscientious choice for discerning South Africans. Displaying a bold pastiche, our country's fashion signature speaks of pride, optimism and humanism.
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Design Indaba Expo: Newcomers set to delight visitors
This year's Design Indaba Expo, from February 23 to 26, 2008, pushes the boundaries of creative expression with some highly original new exhibitors.
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Design Indaba Expo:
10 ways to drive a revolution
Design Indaba Expo 2008 again offers a curated commercial platform for South African designers to showcase local goods and services to the global market. We give you 10 reasons why to be there!
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Design Indaba 2008:
Two weeks to go, don't miss out!
Two weeks to go until Design Indaba 2008 and some of the makers of the world as we know it are preparing to arrive in Cape Town for what has been called the world's most glamorous design convention. Running from February 23 to 29, 2008, the Design Indaba Expo will be extended by a day and precede the Design Indaba Conference this year, in the inauguration of South African Design Week.
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DJ Spooky installation at Design Indaba 2008
Design Indaba are pleased to announce the presentation the New York is Now music-visual installation by Paul D Miller (DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid) at Michaelis School of Fine Art. Forming part of Design Indaba's South African Design Week, this free event offers unique entry into the world of DJ Spooky.
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CNMA 2008: Time is running out - enter now!
The Construction New Media Awards, now in its eighth year, celebrates and elevates the status of new media design by honouring and accrediting those designers, writers, programmers and thinkers who produce challenging, imaginative interactive work, both on a creative and a functional platform.
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Design Indaba 2008
Conference pop quiz!
Two weeks to go until Design Indaba 2008 and some of the world's most influential creatives are dusting off their luggage to travel to Cape Town. From laptops, robots and cars to media, logos and events, what would the world be like without these people?
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A night of enchantment
with Design Indaba and Madame Zingara
Design Indaba in association with Absa have booked an evening at Madame Zingara on Wednesday 27 February, 2008, to host our Design Indaba international speakers, guests and sponsors.
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Design Indaba specialist focus:
Architecture, Lifestyle and Jewellery
Design Indaba 2008 will again present the Specialist Indabas to complement the main conference programme. Focusing on sectors identified as key areas of development in South Africa, these sessions will run alongside the Design Indaba Expo this year, allowing attendance by conference delegates and the public.
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Invitation of participation: Design Indaba Journalism Workshop
For the first time, Design Indaba is presenting the Design Indaba Journalism Workshop in conjunction with the Design Indaba Expo taking place from February 23 to 26, 2008, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. New York design critic and assistant professor at Parsons, Susan Yelavich will lead the workshop.
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Buyers flock to Design Indaba Expo 2008
Design Indaba Expo 2008 has already pre-registered more than 160 local and international buyers. With still a month to go before the event, this is a significant increase on 2007, which recorded 112 buyers at the final event.
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Young Designers Simulcast bookings open
As part of Design Indaba’s ongoing commitment to design education, Design Indaba 2008 will again offer a Young Designers Simulcast, catering to young designers and students under the age of 25. This is a live broadcast from the main plenary session to a second auditorium. Students and young designers will be able to access speakers in short, informal chat sessions during and at the end of the day.
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DESIGN INDABA EXPO UPSIZES FOR 2008
Now in its fifth year, Design Indaba Expo has established itself as the premier showcase of South African creativity - and it continues to grow. In 2008 visitors will be treated to an even bigger expo floor with even more exhibitors and the addition of a dedicated fashion hall.
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Design Indaba lines up the beta generation
Design Indaba magazine, "The Odde2t Prime", is inspired by the radical move towards Web 2.0, but dedicated to how the youngest generation of designers are engaging with the social shift in society. Surveying 20something South African designers under the age of 30, as well as looking to Britain's Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, Holland's Marije Vogelzang and the Czech Republic's Maxim Velcovsky, the answer is clear: By creating objects with emotional significance.
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Design Indaba 2008: A BETTER WORLD THROUGH CREATIVITY
How does one keep milk cold in the desert? Put a roof over people's heads? Turn a magazine into a mirror? Distribute night light to the remotest ends of the Earth? And answer all five of these questions with the same solution? Simple: Creativity.
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Design Indaba presents Karlssonwilker in South Africa: A Real Design Adventure.
South Africans are all too aware of the idiosyncrasies and nuances within our rainbow of a nation. Indeed, local creatives are often lauded for the uncanny mirror that they present our nation, drawing on the very pathos and humour that fuels our daily interactions. Of course, these creatives are borne of the South African culture.
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Design Indaba changes more than the Lightbulb
Global warming and the impact of the carbon-fuelled economy is hitting the headlines daily. Consumers, politicians, decision-makers and industry leaders alike are being called on to change their way of living and drive a more sustainable global community.
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Design Indaba brings low-cost housing to disadvantaged families
At least 10 disadvantaged Western Cape families are to receive homes designed by leading South African and international architects, to mark the tenth edition of the Design Indaba Conference.
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Driving Design into The Future
Among the many faces at Design Indaba there's one that virtually every delegate will recognise at a glance. Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, Woolworths is proud to be one of the main sponsors of Design Indaba for the fourth consecutive year.
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Condom applicator comes first!
Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ Design, a Cape Town product design consultancy, designed the applicator..
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Creative Masterstroke at Design Indaba
The SA creative index should ratchet up several notches this week when 20 top creative directors brainstorm ideas at an exclusive advertising masterclass.
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"Enabling Disability Through Design"
A Design Indaba Expo Project, sponsored by the National Department of Arts & Culture.
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Elle Décor Awards
The winners of the annual Elle Decoration International Design Awards will once again be honoured at a special event during Design Indaba.
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Loeries take flight with the travelling exhibition
With the new Loeries season underway, activities kick off this year with the launch of the Travelling Exhibition, sponsored by the SABC, at the Design Indaba in Cape Town.
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Design Indaba keeps you posted
If you think posting letters is 'so last century', the Design Indaba Expo and the South African Pst Office will prove you wrong.
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Feast on Design
You'll be feeding your mind and your imagination at Design Indaba Expo, but you can also appease your appetite, thanks to Frauke Stegmann's on-site Birds Boutique Café and the Afro Coffee stand.
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Sappi and Design Indaba- together for 10 years
From small beginnings, Design Indaba has undoubtedly grown to become one of the foremost design conferences in the world today. Sappi has been with it every step of the way, as an inaugural sponsor back in 1997, a major sponsor until last year, and this year as a supplier to this leading design showcase.
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Get it on at Design Indaba Expo
A simple condom applicator, designed by a Cape Town product design consultancy and already selected for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, is just one example of hundreds of innovative local designs to be showcased at the Design Indaba Expo this month.
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Going Dutch
South African-Dutch design relations are flourishing and a matchmaking event that will coincide with Design Indaba 10 looks set to seal the deal.
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Global retail buyers trek to DI Expo
At least 66 leading international retail buyers, from countries as diverse as the USA, Sweden, Australia, Japan and France, will soon converge on the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town from 23-25 February.
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Sound, Light, Action with Brian Eno
World-renowned music producer and sound/light artist Brian Eno will be showing his acclaimed 77 Million Paintings at the Michaelis Gallery in Cape Town.
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Showcasing South African Talent at Design Indaba
Imagine the velvet touch of a rose petal. Now imagine this touch transforming into metal... You'll never forget the first time you touch platinum because it will feel like nothing you have ever touched before.
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The Stuff That is Around Us
Gregor Jenkin to launch a new collection, infrastructure, at Design Indaba Expo 2007. House and Leisure's Design Indaba Expo Stand will showcase Johannesburg-based designer extraordinaire...
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The Best of Local Beauty
Sixteen of the most beautiful objects in South Africa have just been selected - and they range from a condom applicator to a chandelier.
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Top Jaguar Designer at Design Indaba 10
South African-born Keith Helfet, who was for many years the Principal Designer of Jaguar Cars, will be one of the keynote speakers at the Design Indaba Conference.
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Design Indaba programme highlights
The Design Indaba Conference - judged the best conference in the world by EIBTM in Barcelona - has just unveiled its three-day programme, with a stunning line-up of international and local speakers.
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A FabLab for a fab Indaba
Aspiring emerging designers seeking support for their innovations and designs will receive a boost at the tenth annual Design Indaba Expo being hosted in Cape Town in February.
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DTI supports Design Indaba
Nineteen creative companies, mainly BEE and women-owned, will show their design products and services at the world-renowned Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town, thanks to nearly R700 000 funding from the Department of Trade and Industry (the dti).
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Designer Lifestyle living
Be inspired by some of the world's hottest designers and architects and grow South Africa's economy at the same time, by attending the iconic Design Indaba Conference and Expo at end-February.
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Design like you give a damn!
Anyone mistakenly thinking that design is superficial or shallow will be in for a mind-blowing wake-up when they hear international speakers of the calibre of Professor Neil Gershenfeld, the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT's) Center for Bits and Atoms, and Cameron Sinclair, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity.
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Young designers take center stage at DI
Young design talent from across South Africa will be showcased and nurtured at this year's Design Indaba Conference and Expo.
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Conceptual fashion at Design Indaba
Fashion at Design Indaba Expo is bigger, badder and bolder than ever this year. The diverse range of designers fulfils DI's mandate to remain cutting-edge, with the freedom to challenge the industry's status quo.
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DI Mag Lasting Legacies- IN STORE!
The latest issue of Design Indaba Magazine devotes an extensive section to the work of the late Alan Fletcher, a top British graphic designer.
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Wrap to the Max Competition
R10 000 is up for grabs in an exciting new design competition in conjunction with Design Indaba Expo and the Roland Wrap to the Max competition!
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Special at the Indaba
The Cape Town-based international Design Indaba Conference is gearing up for its tenth incarnation - and this year's gathering promises a bigger and better speaker line-up and more exciting complementary events than ever before.
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Heavy Metal
Stunning jewellery, and the creative inspiration leading to great jewellery design, will be a major focus of the Design Indaba, which will celebrate its tenth incarnation in February 2007.
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Design Indaba 10
The world's most dynamic and illustrious creatives-graphic and industrial designers, architects, trend forecasters and more - will converge in the Mother City to address over 2 000 delegates on the latest creations, trends and events in their respective fields at DESIGN INDABA CONFERENCE - judged the best in the world by EIBTM in Barcelona. The tenth edition will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 21 to 23 February 2007.
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