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Safe move
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Join Rick Valicenti in using design to make cities more cycle friendly.
23 Jun 11
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Curtain call
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Architecture & Interiors
Curtain Call, conceptualised by Ron Arad, is an interactive installation of art and music.
23 Jun 11
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CT shortlisted for World Design Capital
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Cape Town is one of three cities shortlisted for the World Design Capital 2014.
22 Jun 11
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Elegant luxury
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Product Design
Marcel Wanders has designed a gorgeous range of suitcases, Saint Jacques, for Italian company Fabbricapelleterirmilano.
22 Jun 11
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Crunchy munchy
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Food Design
Have your cake and eat the dish it is served in too! sugiX’s design will spare you dishes and a thought to the environment.
22 Jun 11
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Julia Lohmann at WDCD 2011
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Interaction Design
Julia Lohmann’s work aims to connect the material source of an object with the object itself.
21 Jun 11
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Bright idea
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Product Design
Edward Chew’s gorgeous lighting designs use recycled Tetra Pak cartons.
21 Jun 11
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Food for thought
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Hungry? Solve a conundrum while waiting for your food to cook!
21 Jun 11
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Cycling simplicity
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Urban & Landscape Design
A bicycle made of bent plywood, ideal for the urban cyclist.
20 Jun 11
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Net sustainability
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Design Thinking
The SafetyNet could go a long way to ensuring that plenty of valuable fish remain in the sea.
20 Jun 11
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Champions
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Product Design
Konstantin Grcic’s Champions range of trestle tables takes its cue from sport, where speed, performance and strength is prioritised.
20 Jun 11
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Laser lines
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Here’s a template to create infographics in an instant.
19 Jun 11
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A clear future
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Airbus 2050 concept considers the (transparent) future of air travel.
19 Jun 11
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Super stools
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Craft
Vietnamese craft plus Scandinavian design equals bright and vibrant “Superheroes” stools by Glimpt.
18 Jun 11
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Design encyclopaedia
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Product Design
Alessi's flagship shop in Milan, designed by Martí Guixé, is still home to the "Alessi Encyclopaedia".
18 Jun 11
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Xiaodu Liu at WDCD 2011
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Architecture & Interiors
Xiaodu Liu believes that architecture is more than art and that it should do something good for society.
17 Jun 11
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Oliviero Toscani: photography is the documentation of human memory
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Art & Photography
At What Design Can Do 2011 we discover that for Oliviero Toscani photography is the documentation of human memory.
17 Jun 11
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Automated
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Urban & Landscape Design
Ready for personalised public transport? Check out the semi-automated Wi-Fly Pod.
17 Jun 11
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Muchness of love
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Craft
With his vibrant range of ceramics, Ruan Hoffmann is the first South African to exhibit at the Rockefeller Centre in New York.
17 Jun 11
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Playground senses
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Interaction Design
“Playground closes at dusk” is Nacho Carbonell’s outdoor installation looking at connections between sense and surrounding.
17 Jun 11
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Creative communities
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Design Thinking
The Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project has launched RECreative, an online platform for young creatives to showcase their work.
15 Jun 11
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Wow Woo
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Craft
Woo-men Plush Toys will be making their debut at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, along with Zapiro and Anton Kannemeyer.
15 Jun 11
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Mastering materials
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Product Design
An exploration of materials and processes, Materiality is Benjamin Hubert’s exhibition of industrial design.
15 Jun 11
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For safekeeping
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South African artists at Art 42 Basel explore issues around security and volatile social conditions.
15 Jun 11
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Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year
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