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Plants for productivity
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Product Design
The Oasis collection is a great way of bringing the great outdoors to the corporate indoors.
21 Feb 11
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Master carpentry
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Creative Economy
Besides a wide selection of design and art books, David Krut Projects will be featuring the work of Helder Torrao at DI2011 Expo.
21 Feb 11
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Drawn object
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Justin Southey is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work covers many different mediums and stylistic variations.
20 Feb 11
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Sweet seat
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The Snowjob chair is made of sweet wrappers that would otherwise have been discarded.
20 Feb 11
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Graphic revelations
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Confessions of a Design Thief in New York is an overview of some of Durban-based Garth Walker's work since democracy.
19 Feb 11
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Everyday design
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Industrial Design
For over 12 years Ideso has helped clients create over 300 products that people use and and interact with everyday.
19 Feb 11
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Underground antics
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Architecture & Interiors
Check out a rollicking indie documentary about the "Merry Pranksters" of architecture at the 2011 Design Indaba Filmfest.
18 Feb 11
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Locker up
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Product Design
Raw Studios specialises in original products made from sustainably sourced, engineered materials.
18 Feb 11
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Room with a view
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Architecture & Interiors
A Zen-inspired room, atop a building in the middle of a city, is like floating in the space between earth and sky.
18 Feb 11
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Grand introductions at DI2011 Filmfest
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We don’t mean to name drop but we thought we’d mention the celebrated creatives who’ll introduce films at the Design Indaba Filmfest.
17 Feb 11
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Window dressing
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Product Design
From shocking pink to acid yellow, Karim Rashid's blackout blinds are anything but dull.
17 Feb 11
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Cattle adornments
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Astrid Sulger transforms Nguni cow horn into a collection of sophisticated necklaces, rings, and bracelets.
17 Feb 11
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Desk for design
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Product Design
CO Designs will unveil their new Concept Designer’s desk at Design Indaba Expo 2011.
16 Feb 11
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Twitter lights!
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Design Thinking
The Twitter Ball raises awareness about plastic waste in the ocean, using Twitter to highlight the cause.
16 Feb 11
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Behind the scenes
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Creative Economy
There’s something both mysterious and inviting about a coffee table book that has the phrase “You should have been with me”.
15 Feb 11
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Wearable lyrics
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Less than a year old, Kooky is a jewellery design business based in Cape Town, established to produce and market fun, quirky accessories.
15 Feb 11
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Electric
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Architecture & Interiors
David Adjaye's Elektra House is seen as one of the most innovative houses designed in the last century.
14 Feb 11
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Light carrier
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Product Design
Nacho Carbonell's Luciferase collection of lights highlight the hybrid possibilities in lighting design.
14 Feb 11
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Blown glass ceiling
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Craft
Smelt is a glass blowing studio that promotes the exploration and innovative use of glass in South Africa.
14 Feb 11
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Ceramic canvasses
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Craft
Tamarillo's recent range comprises simplistic ceramic objects that can go from the wall to the table.
14 Feb 11
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Vuvu iPhone
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The Vuvuzela is so cool that even the iPhone wants it as an accessory!
13 Feb 11
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Mountain high
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Architecture & Interiors
The Mountain House seamlessly fits into its natural environment, with minimal impact on the site.
13 Feb 11
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Artistic stance
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Creative Economy
Positions is a book that looks at the role of contemporary artists in modern-day South Africa.
12 Feb 11
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Green feet
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Product Design
Forget green fingers. With Oats Shoes's new Virgin Collection you can have green feet, or shoes rather.
12 Feb 11
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The sound of silence
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Two Dutch designers create 'silent rooms' where care-home inhabitants can process the experience of loss
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Self-taught game developer Mbangiso Mabaso employs augmented and virtual reality to enliven the science lab for learners
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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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