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Jamming
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Jawbone has just announced the launch of Jambox, the world's first intelligent wireless speaker and speakerphone.
4 Nov 10
00:54:54
Massimo and Lella Vignelli keep design simple, elegant and timeless
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Product Design
Design legends Massimo and Lella Vignelli talk about some of their famous designs of the past 50 years.
4 Nov 10
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Built to size
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Product Design
A modular shelving solution by Miriam Aust allows for books to take up a new (design) function within the home.
4 Nov 10
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Mine for keeps
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Product Design
Nobody likes a bomb in their home, except when it's been converted into an interesting piece of furniture.
4 Nov 10
00:39:44
Tobias Frere-Jones transforms typefaces
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Typography needs to be investigated and played with, which certainly works for Tobias Frere-Jones.
3 Nov 10
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Simply AmaZink
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Vibrant, colourful, funky and with subtle Cuban influences in the heart of a South African township… Welcome to AmaZink Eatery.
3 Nov 10
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Pedal power
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Architecture & Interiors
The creative process is a familiar concept but what about a creative cycle, almost like riding a bicycle.
3 Nov 10
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Magpies and makeovers
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Architecture & Interiors
Creative alternatives to mass-produced furniture are always welcome. And of course it doesn’t hurt that it’s chic and ultra-modern.
3 Nov 10
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The beauty of concrete
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Architecture & Interiors
Concrete is not something that's readily associated with beauty and creativity, but when viewed from a different angle, it can inspire.
3 Nov 10
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Treasure chest
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design Kist is an interesting new online design studio to showcase the work of South African creatives.
2 Nov 10
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Basket case
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Urban & Landscape Design
Cycling is the ideal alternative in car-crowded cities. And with a new design, you can carry cargo on the bike too.
2 Nov 10
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Design by the other 90%
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Design Thinking
The streets of Brazil are full of startling design solutions by ordinary people driven by pure human need.
1 Nov 10
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Stick in the mud
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
Add water to soil. Mix. Build house. Architect Malcolm Worby crusades the benefits of mud brick building, writes Delia de Villiers.
1 Nov 10
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Penny wise
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Urban & Landscape Design
They're called classics for a reason, because they're elegant, timeless and oh-so desirable, like the Penny Farthing bicycle.
1 Nov 10
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The good half house
Profiling
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Architecture & Interiors
Elemental in Chile is doing more than half-heartedly answering the question of social housing. Alejandro Aravena talks to Nadine Botha.
1 Nov 10
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I can
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Design Thinking
What would happen if school children in India started designing solutions to social problems? Something very significant...
1 Nov 10
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Backyard design
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Design Thinking
Emily Pilloton is enlisting a new generation of design activists through her work as a high school teacher in North Carolina.
1 Nov 10
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Kurukuru-maki
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A Heath Nash chair design that you can make at home.
1 Nov 10
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Going bos
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Tea in a can has never been this cool... and refreshing, and tasty. And have you checked out the packaging?
1 Nov 10
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The bespoke comeback
Design News
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Urban & Landscape Design
A splurge of second generation bicycles have recently flooded the design wires.
1 Nov 10
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Afronaut
Profiling
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Information Design
If Apple won us over with the power of design, could design bring Ubuntu to the masses? Guy Bedford gets geeky with Mark Shuttleworth.
1 Nov 10
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Google this
Inside View
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Creative Economy
“Get the genius out the building”, is Robert Wong’s brief as creative director of Google Creative Lab.
1 Nov 10
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Afterfacts
Design News
In the future gallery of now, photographer Guido Schwarz turns the gaze to nostalgic artefacts that inspirit a second life.
1 Nov 10
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Second nature
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Design Thinking
Whatever we need to do to sustain our lives, nature already does, writes Beth Peterson.
1 Nov 10
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