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Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Flowerball

Design Indaba Campaigns > Product Design

An official commercial for Design Indaba 2007, based on Heath Nash's Flowerball light.

20 Feb 07
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Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Kreepy Krauly

Design Indaba Campaigns > Design Thinking

The official commercial for Design Indaba 2007. The commercial showcases the kreepy krauly, a South African invention by Ferdinand Chauvier.

19 Feb 07
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Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Hippo Roller

Design Indaba Campaigns > Design Thinking

The official commercial for the Design Indaba 2007, featuring the hippo roller - an invention designed by Johan Jonker and Pettie Petzer.

19 Feb 07
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Film noir

Opinion

The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support.

1 Feb 07
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A Taste For Type

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Tobias Frere-Jones has designed over 500 typefaces for retail publication, custom clients and experimental research.

1 Feb 07
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X SÊ Factor

Q&A > Urban & Landscape Design

South African-born auto designer Keith Helfet has produced iconic designs for Jaguar Cars.

1 Feb 07
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Geografias ingenuas

Design News > Interaction Design

Javier Mariscal has been dubbed the Peter Pan of Spanish design, but his work is often full of social commentary.

1 Feb 07
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Big bad Bitterkomix

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

Over the last 10 years or so, Bitterkomix has been consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore.

1 Feb 07
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Afro Guchi

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Vlisco’s transformation into a leading fashion house is partly the result of competition from cheap Chinese imports.

1 Feb 07
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Creative nation

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Parliament wants a fresh new image and has asked the nation to get its creative juices flowing by designing its new emblem.

1 Feb 07
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Put your best foot forward

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Hands up if you’ve ever cross-tied the laces of your takkies? Or coloured in your toecaps with a permanent marker?

1 Feb 07
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Mechanical magic

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition.

1 Feb 07
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Fresh talent

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Taswald Pillay, from the University of Johannesburg, has scooped the prestigious PG Bison Interior Design Student of the Year Award.

1 Feb 07
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Visions of nature

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

The first comprehensive survey of the work of the 19th-century biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel has been published by Prestel Publishing.

1 Feb 07
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Make a big noise

Design News

Dream up a non-traditional campaign idea for Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign.

11 Dec 06
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Sovereign beauty

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Beverley Price’s unique jewellery is inspired by western as well as indigenous South African goldsmithing and ritual objects.

1 Nov 06
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Africa adorned

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Renowned jeweller Ida-elsje is in demand for her beautiful and highly personal engagement rings and other fine pieces.

1 Nov 06
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One small country

Opinion

Marc Shoul explores the small cycles of daily life against a larger backdrop of shadow, light, unspoken drama and uncertain peace in Israel.

1 Nov 06
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Jacket required

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

The South African book cover has come a long way, ponders Michelle Matthews of Oshun Books.

1 Nov 06
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Oodles of doodles

Lookbook > Urban & Landscape Design

A personal journal produced over two years by Durban-based graphic designer Trevor Paul has reignited his creativity.

1 Nov 06
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Floral finesse

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The interior design for SRK Legal Assistance in the Hague is a tribute to the Dutch flower.

1 Nov 06
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Blooming marvellous

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Nine large-scale metal tree sculptures with colourful, rotating mid-sections have given new life to Juta Street in Johannesburg.

1 Nov 06
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Between Ownership & Belonging

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Michael MacGarry writes about the South African exhibition at the 10th Venice International Architecture Biennale.

1 Nov 06
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Home comforts

Design News > Design Thinking

Providing the right solution between cool design and peace of mind, ZenKaya is a new local concept for prefab living and working space.

1 Nov 06

From the Archives

AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity opens at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark

Design News • 25 Jun 15

This new exhibition of African creative culture aims to present a more varied view of the development and future prospects of this part of the world. >
Artist Gaelen Pinnock returns to three-dimensions

Design News • 25 Jun 15

The architect-turned-artist’s latest work, “Invisible Cities”, still depicts strange urban structures – but this time sculpturally. >
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors shines a spotlight on exceptional interior design

Design News • 25 Jun 15

A space-like TV studio, a healthy office and an exploded cinema set the bar high for the World Interior of the Year Award. >
Darb 1718: A place of exchange for Egypt’s artists

Video Interviews • Duration: 00:04:04 • 25 Jun 15

Reem Hatem fills us in on Darb 1718, the Cairo centre that is fostering the North African country’s art scene. >

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