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Mobile sauna
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Urban & Landscape Design
Keen for a steamy session? Enjoy one on the move with the Bicycle Sauna by H3T Architects.
3 Jun 11
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Future visions
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Festarch festival explores visions of a future city that prioristises civil engagement, shared spaces and an open society.
3 Jun 11
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Creative dinner party
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Design Thinking
Skaftien is a community-based project promoting experimental ideas by assisting with micro grants.
2 Jun 11
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With instructions
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Information Blanket hopes to improve infant mortality rates by giving parents in underdeveloped areas vital health information.
2 Jun 11
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Blog: What Design Can Do conference round-up
Design News
Dutch courage pays off at the What Design Can Do conference.
1 Jun 11
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Tea party
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Product Design
Add a touch of magic to every tea party with Yuya vs. Design’s lovely Paper Tea Set.
1 Jun 11
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Epic branding at DI2011
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Speakers at Design Indaba 2011 look at the creative opportunities in branding.
1 Jun 11
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The real Paul Ward
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Seemingly effortlessly, Paul Ward discreetly captures and expresses Cape Town’s nightlife through his photographic blog.
1 Jun 11
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Power for art’s sake
Design News
South African painter Carla Busuttil has caught Charles Saatchi’s eye among others.
31 May 11
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Making a pitch
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An idea for a new board game, The Pitch, brings out the graphic designer in everyone.
31 May 11
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Blog: Day 2 of What Design Can Do Conference
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Design Thinking
The last day of the What Design Can Do conference was a mix and match of a little bad with a whole lot of good.
31 May 11
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A place at the end of the world
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Photographer Jo Ractliffe explores the dynamic of the war-torn Angolan landscape in a body of work titled As Terras do Fim do Mundo.
31 May 11
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Interactive tree
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Interaction Design
Lit Tree is an interactive light installation that takes a new approach to 3D mapping.
30 May 11
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Types like India
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The headline typeface for an India-themed issue of Wallpaper* draws on the rich visual culture of India.
30 May 11
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Actively sitting
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Design Thinking
At five metres tall, the Empty Chair by Maarten Baas is a symbol of the peaceful battle for human rights.
30 May 11
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Spectacle revolution
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Product Design
Self-adjusting glasses may go on to help billions of people in the developing world with poor eyesight.
29 May 11
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Question mark
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Creative Economy
What is your guiltiest pleasure? Have you had any homosexual experiences? Are you a racist? Do you believe in the death penalty?
29 May 11
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Total joy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
TOTAL, a new music compilation of Joy Division and New Order, features striking artwork by Peter Saville.
28 May 11
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Craft evolution
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Craft
Jurgen Bey curates an exhibition that looks to the connection between production processes of past and present.
28 May 11
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Blog: Day 1 of What Design Can Do Conference
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Rohan Shivkumar, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFares and Oliviero Toscani stood out on day one of the What Design Can Do Conference in Amsterdam.
27 May 11
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Animation overload
Reviews
If you’re a manga or anime fan you’re in for a delight. Or probably rather an emotion more akin to complete indulgence, you get the idea.
27 May 11
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Colourful cityscapes
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Interaction Design
An interactive installation, Build Up! by the Rockwell Group’s LAB invited guests to help design a virtual cityscape.
27 May 11
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Greener grass
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Hat-trick have served up an interesting new brand identity for the famous Wimbledon tennis club.
27 May 11
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Big dreams on little cards
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Graphic Design & Illustration
If you dream it, put it onto a business card and you’re one step closer to realising that dream.
26 May 11
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