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Light bulb moment
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Information Design
Google have launched an LED light bulb which can be controlled by any Android device, paving the way for a new type of energy efficiency.
17 May 11
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Pattern people
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Renée Rossouw and Laduma Ngxokolo take abstract patterns from school-day simplicity to allusions about personal identity.
16 May 11
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Handling pressure
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Interaction Design
A new innovation allows people to monitor their blood pressure using their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
16 May 11
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Mesh-merised
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Product Design
Tom Dixon's Mesh chair aspires to be almost invisible.
16 May 11
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A material world
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Design Thinking
The four young partners of Fibra Design Sustentável are rethinking our material world. Theirs is no small goal, nor easy task.
15 May 11
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Considered design space
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Product Design
The Milan Furniture Fair celebrateed its golden jubilee this year, drawing some 320 000 visitors.
15 May 11
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20Q: Danielle Ehrlich
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Design Thinking
LIV is Danielle Ehrlich's design company. She is passionate about design that is environmentally, culturally and socially sensitive.
15 May 11
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20Q: Thingking
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Product Design
Marc Nicolson and Lyall Sprong of Thingking would like to contribute towards ideas and objects that have a meaningful impact on people.
15 May 11
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Maarten Baas + Christien Meindertsma
Dialogues
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Product Design
Maarten Baas and Christien Meindertsma have known each other since their Design Academy Eindhoven student days.
15 May 11
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20Q: Pedersen + Lennard
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Product Design
James Lennard and Luke Pedersen use a combination of handmade and machine-made techniqies to make functional and beautiful designs.
15 May 11
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20Q: John Edwards
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect by day, designer by night. John Edwards is currently working on a new modular furniture range for small spaces.
15 May 11
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20Q: Katie Thompson
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Design Thinking
Using discarded junk, each item of Katie Thompson's Recreate range of furniture, lighting and interiors is infused with character.
15 May 11
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20Q: Aram Lello
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Product Design
Italian architect and designer Aram Lello won the Western Cape Furniture Design Competition at the 2011 Design Indaba Expo.
15 May 11
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20Q: Ian Kelynack
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Design Thinking
Ian Kelynack of Isle of Trees made his Design Indaba Expo debut this year. His sustainable work won him the Most Creative Stand Award.
15 May 11
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Shoot from the hip
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Art & Photography
Can one really out hip a photographer? What happens when one hipster calls three other hipsters "hipster"?
15 May 11
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Design as dance
Design News
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Industrial Design
Calling on the power of artistry to move a viewer, Dror Benshetrit proposes modern dance as a fitting analogy for luxury design.
15 May 11
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Painting Obscura
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Art & Photography
Critics and scholars read Zander Blom’s art as a contemporary South African revision of Modernism.
15 May 11
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Illustrious
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Graphic Design & Illustration
After years of experiencing a creative identity crisis, South African illustration is gradually coming into its own.
15 May 11
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Sunny Side Up
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Film & Animation
Shy The Sun has taken their brand of quirky fantasy and broken commercial boundaries both locally and abroad.
15 May 11
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West Coast Forager
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Food Design
Bokkoms, dune spinach and dried seaweed are just some of the unique ingredients Kobus van der Merwe uses in his locavore dishes.
15 May 11
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Digital realities
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Interaction Design
With Pixel Project, Rahle Dusheiko designs experiences where the physical and the digital interact, combining technology with storytelling.
15 May 11
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Conviction en masse
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Design Thinking
Susie Hunt writes about China's emerging class of creative entrepreneurs who are leapfrogging the traditional agency model.
15 May 11
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Design evolution at Milan2011
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Urban & Landscape Design
Superfarm proposes a new way of cultivating and consuming food, looking to the urban environments of 2050.
15 May 11
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Wanders forever
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Interaction Design
Marcel Wanders's designs are pretty desirable. So desirable, in fact, that you might want it tattooed onto your body. Now you can!
15 May 11
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Golden touch
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Mishaal Gangaram is a conceptual photographer, visual storyteller and one of Design Indaba’s Emerging Creatives for 2022
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Dokter’s orders
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9 Sep 22
Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art.
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The anatomy of art
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9 Sep 22
New York-based artist Michael Mapes creates fragmented portraits out of collected items
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‘A’ Okay
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9 Sep 22
Swedish architecture firm Naturvillan designed an A-framed ‘greenhouse’ that is entirely self-sufficient.
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