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TEN Collection: design tutorial ft Alberto Seveso (Italy)

Inside View > Graphic Design & Illustration

Alberto Seveso talks through the process of creating his digital artwork for the TEN Collection. Use the captions settings on the video player for subtitles.

10 Oct 13
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Slicing time

Design News > Product Design

A device that "cuts away" time as it passes, here's Nendo's elegant Slice watch.

10 Oct 13
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The simple life

Design News > Product Design

Studio Formafantasma's "Autarchy" installation looks to sustainable and uncomplicated solutions for production processes.

9 Oct 13
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Architecture at its best

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors

Arquitectura Viva's 162nd edition is a comprehensive monograph highlighting Bjarke Ingels Group's proactive and optimistic architecture.

9 Oct 13
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Sensual delight

Design News > Product Design

Marcel Wanders provides poetic insight into the idea behind his Troy chair, which has recently gone into production.

8 Oct 13
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Plastic perspective

Design News > Industrial Design

Benjamin Hubert's Amass installation provided a unique space divider for the 2013 100% Design event in London.

8 Oct 13
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Satellite light

Design News > Product Design

Dirk van der Kooij has created a lamp out of recycled CD cases in order to explore the possibilities of 3D printing.

8 Oct 13
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Virtual display

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Hat-trick has designed a visual identity for the first-ever online virtual gallery.

7 Oct 13
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Seven sins

Design News > Interaction Design

Studio Makkink & Bey establish various connections between 15th century life and the world of today with their "The Seven Sins" exhibition.

7 Oct 13
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Buried treasure

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

FilmFestFriday > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > 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

Q&A > 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

Design News > 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

Design News > Product Design

"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

Design News > 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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Design News • 13 Jun 22

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Design News • 13 Jun 22

Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer >
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Q&A • 13 Jun 22

Nkululeko Mthembu’s design thinking helps to solve uniquely African challenges >
Fast track to a modern Senegal

Design News • 13 Jun 22

Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation >

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