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Carpet magic
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Images from Google Earth make for compelling rug designs with David Hanaeur's WorldWide Carpets.
16 Aug 11
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Concrete stools
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Product Design
Strong, comfortable and not bad looking, Florian Schmid's Stitching Concrete stools are great for indoor and outdoor use.
16 Aug 11
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Designs in sawdust
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Collect sawdust, add resin, press into mould and voila - you have very interesting furnture pieces, as Yoav Avinoam discovered.
16 Aug 11
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Mind Over Matter
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An exhibition at Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Alan Fletcher on the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways.
16 Aug 11
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Live transformation
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Product Design
Designer Paul Cocksedge transforms old LP records into smartphone sound amplifiers.
16 Aug 11
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Sonja Bäumel
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Interaction Design
Fashion designer Sonja Baumel talks about growing clothes out of the bacteria on your skin.
15 Aug 11
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Design can-do
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Design Thinking
The inaugural What Design Can Do conference brought together designers, thinkers and doers working in a transformative space.
15 Aug 11
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DIY Hybrids
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Craft
With Hybrids, Brazilian designer Rodrigo Almeida explores material culture, craftmanship and tradition.
15 Aug 11
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Panoptical
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Photographer Mikhael Subotzky and artist Patrick Waterhouse have been capturing the shifting moods of Ponte City in Jo’burg since 2008.
15 Aug 11
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Tracking change
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Urban & Landscape Design
Rapid rail travel aboard the Gautrain has the potential to revitalise Johannesburg and Pretoria as thriving urban environments.
15 Aug 11
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(In)formal connections
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Architecture & Interiors
Jorge Mario Jáuregui works to integrate Rio de Janeiro’s favelas with the formal city, using articulation through public spaces.
15 Aug 11
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Endemic systems
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Urban & Landscape Design
Known for its chaotic masses and vast economic disparities, Mumbai’s slums do not need a bulldozer but an alternative perspective.
15 Aug 11
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The power of 10
Opinion
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Urban & Landscape Design
Using the city as the context for design, ExpoTENtial employs creativity as the driving force for a higher quality urban experience.
15 Aug 11
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Of war reborn
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Urban & Landscape Design
While the remnants of 25 years of civil war clings to the urban fabric of Beirut, the city has managed to reinvent itself slowly.
15 Aug 11
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Dignified chaos
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Urban & Landscape Design
The most populous city in China, Shanghai is experiencing urban development and cultural renewal on a grand scale.
15 Aug 11
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Stranger
Inside View
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Art & Photography
Photographer Damien Schumann spent six months documenting the fraught USA-Mexican border cities.
15 Aug 11
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Paradise?
Inside View
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Art & Photography
Today life in Angola might seem bleak, but for the infrastructural development. Yet the people are convinced of the possibilities.
15 Aug 11
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Minus 90%
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Urban & Landscape Design
Design with the Other 90%: CITIES calls on design to address the most critical issues arising from the impact of mass urbanisation.
15 Aug 11
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One x one
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African Design
From Berlin to Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré is building a bridge using education, upliftment, local materials and energy efficiency.
15 Aug 11
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Luyanda Mpahlwa + Mokena Makeka
Dialogues
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Architecture & Interiors
Mokena Makeka and Luyanda Mpahlwa chat about using public space, culture, fun and romance to create an African architectural identity.
15 Aug 11
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Shadowless
Design News
No Shadow is a collection of sculptures by Makoto Tojiki that uses light as a form of expression.
15 Aug 11
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Soho Synagogue
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Architecture & Interiors
Soho Synagogue by Dror Benshetrit brings design direction and interventions to a Jewish place of worship.
15 Aug 11
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Never forgotten
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Product Design
Can't get rid of old clothes for sentimental reasons? Why not use it to craft a chair? Like the Rememberme chair.
12 Aug 11
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Public light
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Architecture & Interiors
A light installation on the façade of the Zeilgalerie in Frankfurt hopes to make this building an architectural highlight in the city.
12 Aug 11
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