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Wall parrot
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Product Design
British design studio Airside's Parrot could look funky against your wall.
9 Mar 11
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SMS answers from Charlie Todd
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Interaction Design
Improvisation maestro Charlie Todd, best known for causing scenes of joy and chaos, answers SMS questions sent to him during Design Indaba.
9 Mar 11
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Torch bearers
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Product Design
BarberOsgerby have been appointed to design the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
9 Mar 11
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SMS answers from Daddy's World
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Creative Economy
Cape Town-based creative entrepreneurs Jody Aufrichtig and Nick Ferguson answer the SMS questions sent during Design Indaba Conference.
8 Mar 11
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Alberto Alessi at DI2011
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Product Design
The godfather of Italian design, Alberto Alessi, believes that design and beauty can help save the world.
8 Mar 11
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Cardboard creations
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Architecture & Interiors
Michael Hansmeyer’s Subdivided Columns may be the most intricate object ever fashioned out of cardboard.
8 Mar 11
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Where did we park?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Paula Scher’s latest project helps to manage the incredible frustration often experienced when you can’t remember where your car is parked.
8 Mar 11
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SMS answer from Michael Wolff
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Creative Economy
Design and branding stalwart Michael Wolff answers a SMS question about his creative process, sent to the Design Indaba Conference line.
8 Mar 11
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SMS answers from Kiran Bir Sethi
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Design Thinking
Designer, teacher and education reformer Kiran Bir Sethi answers the SMS questions addressed to her during Design Indaba Conference 2011.
7 Mar 11
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Carpet creations
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Campana Brothers and Eklund Sisters have worked together on a colourful exhibit, aimed at promoting dialogue.
7 Mar 11
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Complementing metaphors
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Craft
Ruan Hoffmann’s solo exhibition in Cape Town features a selection of works, all made in paper clay.
7 Mar 11
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Twinkle twinkle at Milan2011
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Product Design
Tokujin Yoshioka’s Twilight and Moon designs emphasise the unique beauty of light.
6 Mar 11
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Re-figuration
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A Turkish visual artist challenges conventional notions of beauty and body ornaments with her “face-distorting” jewellery.
6 Mar 11
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Printed fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Welcome to the future with 3D printed couture that effectively, and fashionably, utilises rapid prototyping.
5 Mar 11
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Opposing meanings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The clever folks at Pentagram in New York sent an ingenious little book that challenges you to a word game, but not just any word game.
4 Mar 11
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Noted
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Product Design
The NoteSlate proposes an electronic alternative to paper.
4 Mar 11
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One wheel
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Solowheel is small, convenient, eco-friendly, compact and fun - without reinventing the wheel.
4 Mar 11
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Handspring Puppet Company: Engineers of emotions
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Interaction Design
Handspring Puppet Company believe that puppeteers are engineers of emotions.
3 Mar 11
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Light for the night
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Product Design
Like sand through the hourglass, this clever night light will help you gently fall asleep...
3 Mar 11
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Toys from trash
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Design Thinking
A US soldier in Afghanistan is using creativity and recycled materials to bring joy to the children in this war-torn area.
2 Mar 11
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Ode to cycling
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Design Thinking
The Danube Bicycle is a kinetic sculpture that recognises the importance of cycling as a form of urban transport.
2 Mar 11
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Indigo assertions
Design News
A South African artist is the youngest ever to hold a solo exhibition at the National Arts Club in New York.
1 Mar 11
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Through the window
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Studio Xag’s dazzling window installation for a fashion boutique takes its cue from original Vegas signage.
1 Mar 11
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Up-rooted
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In a new exhibition, local artist Neill Wright looks to the predatory culture that has emerged in South Africa.
28 Feb 11
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The sound of silence
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17 Apr 22
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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