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Buried treasure
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Product Design
Nendo's "Oke" collection of drinking vessels are made using 2 000-year-old wood.
6 Oct 13
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Electrical storm
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Interaction Design
United Visual Artists have brought Sou Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion to life with an electrical storm.
6 Oct 13
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Casual time
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Product Design
Jasper Morrison's Please watch collection for Issey Miyake is a pure reflection of the renowned fashion brand's philosophy.
5 Oct 13
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Tick tock
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Michael Bierut and Daniel Weil have designed a special clock to celebrate Formica Laminate's 100th anniversary.
5 Oct 13
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Daniel Ting Chong: Emerging Creatives Q&A
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This week’s featured Emerging Creative is graphic designer Daniel Ting Chong, who was part of the programme at Design Indaba Expo in 2008.
4 Oct 13
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Theo Jansen: Strandbeest
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Urban & Landscape Design
Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates large, almost life-like, beach creatures, or “Strandbeest”, that use kinetic energy to move.
4 Oct 13
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Balancing act
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Product Design
Front has designed an elegant drinking service for Ballantine's 12-year-old blend, bringing some magic to the whisky experience.
4 Oct 13
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Step-by-step DIY
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Product Design
Jasper Morrison has designed a chair that is suitable for a variety of environments including a country house, city apartment and hotel lobby.
3 Oct 13
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Bathed in bronze
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Information Design
PearsonLloyd has rethought and redesigned the streets and public spaces of one of the United Kingdom's most historic cities, Bath.
3 Oct 13
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Corked connections
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Product Design
PMC Design exhibited Tomas Kral's Plug collection of recyclable furniture at Maison et Objet 2014.
1 Oct 13
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Sphere of silence
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Product Design
Hella Jongerius's Sphere Table makes a strong statement in any environment.
1 Oct 13
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Lucille Tenazas on design and education
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Interaction Design
On a Skype call between Cape Town and New York Lucille Tenazas tells us about her work, her influences and her approach to creative education.
1 Oct 13
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Creativity on the continent
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Creative Economy
The African Creative Economy Conference, taking place in Cape Town from 3 to 6 October, will look to ways of unlocking the continent's creative potential.
1 Oct 13
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New direction
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"Traffic", designed by Konstantin Grcic, is the first Magis furniture collection that uses upholstery.
1 Oct 13
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Collaboration at AGI Open 2013
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The best graphic design congress in the world, AGI Open, celebrated collaboration at its 2013 conference in London.
30 Sep 13
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Geometric precision
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Product Design
Benjamin Hubert unveiled his Pelt chair at this year's London Design Festival after 12 months of prototyping.
30 Sep 13
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Sound distortion
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Music & Sound Design
Yuri Suzuki's Garden of Russolo makes use of sound machines that transform and distort the voices of visitors.
30 Sep 13
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Ceramic flowers
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Product Design
Nendo's new range of ceramic kitchenware is an unorthodox re-edit of the famous patterns issued by Gen-emon, a 260-year-old porcelain kiln in Japan.
29 Sep 13
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Wheeling around
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Product Design
Hella Jongerius's UN Lounge Chair is light and mobile catering for the demand of changeability.
29 Sep 13
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Bright summer
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Paul Smith's Spring/Summer 2014 women's collection is vibrant in colour and feminine in fluidity.
28 Sep 13
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Sling furniture
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Product Design
Jasper Morrison's Fionda chair highlights the possibility of lightweight, versatile and comfortable furniture.
28 Sep 13
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New Music City
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Music & Sound Design
#FilmFestFridays presents "New Music City", a short film about Nashville's music scene, one of America's music heartlands.
27 Sep 13
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Instrumental change
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Music & Sound Design
Pedro Reyes transformed discarded weapons into musical instruments for the digital age.
27 Sep 13
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Outer space
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Nelly Ben Hayoun's project, Disaster Playground will investigate outer space catastrophes and the design procedures needed to manage these risks.
26 Sep 13
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