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From cradle to consumer
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Design Thinking
The Green Products Innovation Institute marks the historic launch of a non-profit organisation promoting sustainable design.
14 Jun 10
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Positive painting
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Urban & Landscape Design
A coat of paint can go a long way in making a colourful and empowering difference in the lives of poor communities.
14 Jun 10
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Can-do creativity with the Cratefan
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Urban & Landscape Design
It bears a slight resemblance to the Incredible Hulk but the Cratefan in Jozi and Cape Town is no ordinary superhero.
14 Jun 10
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Fine and furnished
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Architecture & Interiors
The Bouroullec Brothers have created an interesting apartment interior for one of the units in the famous Radiant City in France.
14 Jun 10
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Second chances
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Product Design
Haldane Martin’s re-edition prototype of the Globe Chair is making this everyday household item a must-have.
13 Jun 10
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Design to heal wounds
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Design Thinking
An improved negative-pressure system that doesn’t use batteries or electricity could help to heal many wounds in developing countries.
13 Jun 10
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Legends of Echo
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Interaction Design
The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game.
12 Jun 10
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Shower power
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Product Design
The Delta Outdoor Shower is French designer, Inga Sempé’s latest creation.
12 Jun 10
00:21:35
Keith Helfet: The Joule electric car
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Product Design
The inspiring design story of Joule is testament to the possibilities of South African industrial design.
11 Jun 10
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Fiction or football
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Flags, vuvuzelas and bright clothing everywhere. It's hard not to be infected by footie fever. Am I Collective's posters add to the joy.
10 Jun 10
00:22:17
John Hunt on original advertising
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Creative Economy
John Hunt tries to define "advertising", pointing out that advertising must be original – but not too original.
9 Jun 10
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One man band
Design News
Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits.
9 Jun 10
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Milestones and goalposts
Design News
In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives.
8 Jun 10
00:39:33
Ineke Hans asks "Where to From Here?"
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Product Design
Ineke Hans looks at the future of playing and asks, "Where to from here, designers?"
8 Jun 10
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Fashionable football fever
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories.
7 Jun 10
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Young and grey
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Product Design
Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame.
7 Jun 10
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Writing on trees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art?
7 Jun 10
00:41:14
Shigeru Uchida on the power of weakness
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Product Design
Weakness is part of design as much as it is part of human nature.
4 Jun 10
00:45:13
5.5 Designers on sustaining great design
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Product Design
5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable.
4 Jun 10
00:43:02
AdamsMorioka: what lies beneath
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Graphic Design & Illustration
AdamsMorioka reveal what lies beneath the slick, ultra-cool veneer of designers.
4 Jun 10
00:30:22
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire
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Product Design
For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people.
4 Jun 10
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Magnetic trailer park attraction
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Creative Economy
There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley.
4 Jun 10
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No tick, no tock
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic.
3 Jun 10
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The final countdown
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster.
3 Jun 10
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