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Art to eat
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Food Design
Think gingerbread is only for gingerbread men? Think again. And think domes, skulls and Bauhaus replications.
18 Dec 11
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Illustrative interactions
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The wise old owl is given a quirky makeover by Melissa Maloney in her illustrations.
18 Dec 11
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Close ties
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Product Design
Keeping it simple: The Almohadilla Chair is consists of nothing more than six wooden planes and cable ties.
17 Dec 11
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Illuminated versions
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Industrial Design
Humans Since 1982's "Collection of Light" is an LED lamp that resembles an illuminated drawer for keeping insects.
17 Dec 11
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Tough as nails
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Sharp sharp: The Nail Cloud is an interior lamp made with magnets and nails.
16 Dec 11
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Everybody smile
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Urban & Landscape Design
Smile! The "face" atop the lighthouse is watching you.
16 Dec 11
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Cultural pioneering
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Creative Economy
The Pan-African publication Chimurenga was awarded the Prince Claus Award for cultural pioneering earlier this week.
16 Dec 11
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Urban acupuncture
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Urban & Landscape Design
Alfredo Brillembourg of interdisciplinary design practice Urban-Think Tank will be speaking at Design Indaba 2012. Here he offers insight into his work.
15 Dec 11
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Displaced fragments
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Interaction Design
Olivia de Gouveia's "Apocalyptopia" project considers the consequences of present displacement in a fictional future.
15 Dec 11
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Festive flavours
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Craft
Music, food, design and craft retail, experience it all at Freeworld's Designer-Make Artisan Market. Great place to get your Christmas shopping done.
15 Dec 11
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Strijdom van der Merwe at Design Indabar
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Urban & Landscape Design
Land artist Strijdom van der Merwe shows how creativity can help to draw attention to and facilitate understanding of issues around climate change.
14 Dec 11
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Assaf Biderman at Design Indabar
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Urban & Landscape Design
Networked technology and connectivity is changing the way we move around cities, says Assaf Biderman.
14 Dec 11
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Andrew Makin at Design Indabar
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Design Thinking
Andrew Makin spoke at Design Indabar in Durban about climate change.
14 Dec 11
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Love and mystery
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Mister Handsome is Jason Wishnow's short film about love, imagination and some of the dark sides of human nature.
14 Dec 11
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Intelligent craft
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Interaction Design
Haptic Intelligentia is a system that makes provision for traditional craftsmanship in the age of digital technology and 3D printing.
14 Dec 11
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Sheets of colour
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Product Design
Artist Tyree Callahan's Chromatic Typewriter "types" paintings, with the machine's keys as different colours.
14 Dec 11
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Quirky cauliflower
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Creative Economy
Meet Doris. She's a great-tasting, long-lasting cauliflower. Then also meet her siblings: Doug, Shirl and Bob.
13 Dec 11
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Talking about love
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What we talk about when we talk about love is a group exhibition exploring different notions of love and the relationship we have with ourselves.
13 Dec 11
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Specialised generalist
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With a form follows materials approach, Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek creates distinctive designer furniture from scraps of wood.
13 Dec 11
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Place specific
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Architecture & Interiors
Thomas Heatherwick renovated a luxury shopping and entertainment complex in Hong Kong to give it a more contemporary look and feel.
12 Dec 11
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Urban origami
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spanish street artist Nuria Mora creates large and colourful origami pieces for urban spaces.
12 Dec 11
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Crystal containers
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Product Design
With "Containers II" Studio Job transformed old crystal vessels into a coffee pot, a waste basket and a saucepan.
11 Dec 11
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Widest love
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For every artwork in the If You Let Yourself Love a Wild Thing Exhibition at Salon91 in Cape Town, a tree will be planted.
11 Dec 11
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Copper classic
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Madison Street Model bicycle is inspired by the vintage bikes of the 1930s.
10 Dec 11
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