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Balloon mania
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Soccer players, wearable fashion and Da Vinci, here's what it looks like in latex balloon.
8 Jul 11
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Common love
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Design Thinking
Share your community-changing ideas for the common good.
7 Jul 11
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For Men
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In an array of beautiful and natural fabrics, Stiaan Louw presents a collection of favourite pieces at the White Box Showroom in Jo’burg.
7 Jul 11
00:44:23
Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process.
7 Jul 11
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Plywood paintings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic design meets craftsmanship in Russian artist Aske’s Plywood artworks.
7 Jul 11
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Desk buddies
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Product Design
The AZ desk grows with children, making it the ideal workspace for tots, tweens and teens.
7 Jul 11
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Coke live
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Design Thinking
Billboards are everywhere, so what if they could absorb carbon dioxide? Cola-Cola and WWF have the right idea.
7 Jul 11
00:37:37
Mark Shuttleworth on the benefits of open-source
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Interaction Design
South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu Project, a free, open-source Linux-based operating system.
6 Jul 11
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Fine hair
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Attraction/Aversion is a range of intricately designed necklaces. And they’re made from no ordinary material, human hair.
6 Jul 11
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Private Public
Design News
Gary Van Wyk’s Private Public exhibition of photographic work is a visual diary of the situations he finds himself in.
5 Jul 11
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Sub-Saharan renegades
Design News
With his Renegades body of work Frank Marshall examines the outcropping of a decisive heavy metal subculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.
5 Jul 11
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Work wear
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Inspired by socialist work culture, Comradettes is a range of clothing that encourages people to take pride in utility clothing.
5 Jul 11
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Mosaic migration
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Coming To The City is a large mosaic artwork by Clive van den Berg for Nando’s in London.
5 Jul 11
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Limitless living
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Product Design
Flexible and multifunctional, the Living Tools collection of versatile furniture pieces is ideal for small spaces.
4 Jul 11
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African sounds
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Post Office have released a series of stamps depicting rare, indigenous musical instruments at the National Arts Festival.
4 Jul 11
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Wide Open Walls
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Urban & Landscape Design
A living art project in the villages of The Gambia hopes to promote this West African country as a vibrant tourist destination.
4 Jul 11
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Folding fun
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Craft
Cut, paste, create and decorate. Paper projects come alive, DIY style, with the Paper Punk kit.
3 Jul 11
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Russian jewel
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Architecture & Interiors
The Pushkinsky Jewel is a design concept for connecting a landmark theatre to the historic and culturally vibrant Pushkin Square in Moscow.
3 Jul 11
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Mouse trail
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Product Design
Streamlined, safe and functional, Stefano Giovannoni’s Mouse range of luggage is the ideal travelling companion.
2 Jul 11
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Modern company
Design News
Battiss & Company at the Goodman Gallery Johannesburg celebrates the work of one of SA's foremost modernists.
2 Jul 11
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Made by man
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Craft
The Stephen Burks: Man Made exhibition considered the global economy of artisanal craft.
1 Jul 11
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Colonised
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Formafantasma’s Colony range of textiles is inspired by topical issues like assimilation and migration.
1 Jul 11
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Adélia Borges and Paula Dib at WDCD 2011
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Product Design
At What Design Can Do 2011 conference Paula Dib and Adélia Borges talk about a commitment to design that can improve lives.
30 Jun 11
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Francis Kéré: African architecture should stop copying the West
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Design Activism
African architecture should stop copying the West, engage the real needs of the people and regard the environment, says Diébédo Francis Kéré.
30 Jun 11
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The sound of silence
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Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss
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A virtual leap for the lab
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17 Apr 22
Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners
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Art across time
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Chinese-Australian artist Renee So’s exhibition at the CAMPLE LINE gallery in rural Scotland explores history in multiple forms
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