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Beyond Black Rock City

Design Frontiers > Creative Economy

Larry Harvey, founding member of Burning Man, puts the idea down to a whim one afternoon. Now Burning Man-style interactive art is appearing worldwide.

9 Feb 15
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Enter your work to A' Design Awards 2015

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Your last chance to enter this international juried competition expires 28 February – and here’s why you should enter!

9 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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How art helped a former gangster rise from the ashes

Dialogues > Film & Animation

Project Phoenix is a film about a former member of the feared South African Numbers Gang and how creativity helped turn his life around.

9 Feb 15
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Take Five

Take Five > Music & Sound Design

Nostalgic over a little boy and his stuffed tiger, readers were intrigued to know what happened to Bill Watterson and his cartoon, "Calvin & Hobbes".

7 Feb 15
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"Modern Love: Breaching the Seawall" by Adam Wells

FilmFestFriday > Film & Animation

Taken from the “Modern Love” column published in The New York Times, Adam Wells animates the story of a woman who falls in love in the Philippines.

6 Feb 15
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South African creativity's unlikely ambassador

Q&A > Design Activism

As Nando's prepares to ramp up its support for local design, co-founder Robbie Brozin tells us what chicken and creativity have to do with one another.

6 Feb 15
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A realised utopia

Design Frontiers > Urban & Landscape Design

In an industrial part of Amsterdam the locals refer to as "Noord", 16 grounded houseboats now dot a former shipyard: tricky architectural brief, magical space.

6 Feb 15
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"Zulu Funk Soul" by DJ Zulufunk

Track of the Week > Music & Sound Design

This up-and-coming DJ wants to put female house music producers on the map – starting with her own African rhythm-infused sound.

5 Feb 15
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Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Talks > Product Design

Stefan Scholten talks about the design philosophy behind the Amsterdam-based firm he runs with his wife, Scholten & Baijings.

5 Feb 15
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Keep on truckin'

Profiling > Food Design

The "godfather" of the Californian food truck movement is coming to Cape Town. It’s a good thing we’ll have 14 food trucks on tap.

5 Feb 15
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Recipes for urban subversion

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

Santiago Cirugeda is not the kind of architect to sit around and wait for commissions. Is this the future of architecture in austerity-hit Europe?

4 Feb 15
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Born to create

Next Generation > Product Design

Emerging Creative Bonga Jwambi designs with an impulse to make things no one has seen before.

4 Feb 15
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Balance and disorder

Lookbook > Craft

Ceramicist Martine Jackson has partnered with fine artist Galia Gluckman to produce a vibrant range of limited edition, hand-coiled pots.

4 Feb 15
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Naoto Fukusawa on why objects shouldn’t stand out too much

Talks > Product Design

The Japanese industrial designer believes successful designs are things we interact with naturally and inevitably, without thinking.

3 Feb 15
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Cutting down on timber

Design Frontiers > Product Design

Xanita is ahead of the game with its cradle-to-cradle designed X-board that is strong, multi-purpose and endlessly recyclable.

3 Feb 15/ Advertorial
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Senegal's fashion futurist

Design Frontiers > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Selly Raby Kane, a central figure in Dakar's new creative wave, will bring her avant-garde fashion sensibility to the stage at Design Indaba Conference 2015.

3 Feb 15
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Asif Khan: Always work with different scales

Video Interviews > Interaction Design

London-based architect Asif Khan talks about architecture and design that is appropriate for the modern human being.

3 Feb 15
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#MakeChange: Three simple, sustainable solutions

Lookbook > Product Design

Planters from billboard vinyl, solar-powered light bulbs and low-voltage power packs: three South African solutions for African problems.

3 Feb 15
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Sakawa Boys: Putting constraints on creativity

Video Interviews > Music & Sound Design

In this interview with the Sakawa Boys, performers at Design Indaba Music 2015, the band talks about the joy of playing live but the struggle to make ends meet.

2 Feb 15
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Mmmmama Missoni!

Lookbook > Product Design

Rosita Missoni, who co-founded the Missoni empire with her husband 62 years ago, will talk about her creative longevity at Design Indaba Conference 2015.

2 Feb 15
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Whatever happened to Watterson?

Profiling > Film & Animation

Notoriously media-shy cartoonist Bill Watterson features in the comic-strip documentary film “Stripped”, to be screened at Design Indaba FilmFest 2015.

2 Feb 15
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Urquiola’s universe

Lookbook > Architecture & Interiors

Kartell dedicated its flagship store in Cologne to Patricia Urquiola with an exhibition rounding up all of her designs for the brand.

1 Feb 15
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Trailer: Scholten & Baijings on thinking in colour

Trailers > Product Design

Husband-and-wife team Scholten & Baijings tell us how they transform sterile mass-produced items into designs with a personal touch.

1 Feb 15
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Twenty years of jamming with design

Lookbook > Product Design

The first all-encompassing retrospective show of the work of Austrian design studio EOOS is on at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.

31 Jan 15

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Design News • 21 Jun 22

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Superstructures

Q&A • 21 Jun 22

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Home and away

Design Frontiers • 21 Jun 22

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Dream, explore, discover

Design News • 21 Jun 22

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