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Cooling the desert
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Design Thinking
What if you could have an art installation in the desert that also works as an energy-free cooling device? PostlerFerguson have a solution.
10 Dec 10
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Break-up shake-up
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Interaction Design
It’s kinda weird but it’s also kinda cool – the Museum of Broken Relationships.
10 Dec 10
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For the lonely
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Interaction Design
A design that incorporates artificial muscle technology could provide a tangible solution for people who are lonely.
9 Dec 10
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Desert escape
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Design Thinking
See new pictures of Matali Crasset’s eco-lodge in the middle of the desert.
8 Dec 10
00:42:05
Adam Levin on South African fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion is an intimate social and political expression of who we are as a people. Adam Levin talks about this notion.
8 Dec 10
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Paper pleasure
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Antalis South Africa's gorgeous Munken Journal is sure to provide inspiration overload, for all creatives - even if it's just at heart.
8 Dec 10
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Plastic goes on
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Product Design
A creative process that gives discarded plastic a second life is always welcome, like Dirk van der Kooij's Endless range of chairs.
8 Dec 10
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20Q: Jakob Trollbäck
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Music & Sound Design
Working hard to create something new and unseen is what Jakob Trollbäck considers creative success to be, with a dash of playfulness.
7 Dec 10
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Outlandish legacy
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Product Design
Dror Studio's Tron Armchair is unconventional but interestingly reminiscent of the possibilities of a digital world.
7 Dec 10
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Hidden in the beer label
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Now just have your beer and read it too... or something equally novel.
7 Dec 10
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Wool essentials
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Babymo Creed fashions are soft, sensual and have a low impact on the environment. Oh, and they're made using kid mohair.
6 Dec 10
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Fashion recreation
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Tokujin Yoshioka has designed the first shop for the 132 5 Issey Miyake range.
6 Dec 10
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Christmas with the Conrans
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Product Design
The Conran Shops in London are a visual feast of Christmas trees, made using recyled wood.
5 Dec 10
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A short history of design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Genius of Design gives a surprisingly interesting account of the recent history of design.
5 Dec 10
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Elegance in the air
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Product Design
Marcel Wanders has designed a fab new range of tableware for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
4 Dec 10
00:41:11
Tom Dixon on the world’s most expensive vibrator
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Product Design
Tom Dixon talks about his work, from starting as a welder to designing the world’s most expensive vibrator.
3 Dec 10
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Temptations at Temporium
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Architecture & Interiors
The Temporium pop-up shop in London is any shopaholic's Christmas dream.
3 Dec 10
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Borderline
Design News
Roger Ballen's collection of work, Boarding House, explores aspects of the human condition.
3 Dec 10
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Fluid dynamics
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Product Design
Generous, curvaceous and desirable... We're talking about Amada.
2 Dec 10
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Visual protest
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Graphic Design & Illustration
On World Aids Day we take a look at some of the most thought-provoking posters aimed at educating people about the disease.
1 Dec 10
00:32:11
Doshi Levien
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Product Design
At the design intersection of culture and technology some very interesting things are possible, as Doshi Levien have discovered.
1 Dec 10
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Creative play
Profiling
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Just make beautiful work. Meet Cape Town illustrator Daniel Ting Chong, for whom this works.
1 Dec 10
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Motor-biCycle
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Urban & Landscape Design
Looks can be deceiving with the HMK 561 bike... What appears to be a bicycle is in fact a light motorcycle.
1 Dec 10
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Like a fish in the sea
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Architecture & Interiors
Troika's latest installation mimics the fluid movements of a school of fish.
30 Nov 10
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