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Modern mohair
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Port Elizabeth student Laduma Ngxokolo's mohair fashion collection won top prize in London.
28 Oct 10
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Busy bees
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Design Thinking
Cross-disciplinary collaborations are nothing new in design, but what about an interspecies collaboration? Meet a trio that made it work.
28 Oct 10
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From vine to vase
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Product Design
Using reclaimed wine bottles and local labour, Liam Mooney is creating some rather interesting vases.
28 Oct 10
00:50:47
Jo Noero on socially purposeful South African architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
Architecture in post-apartheid South Africa has a very important role to play, Jo Noero shares his thoughts on this.
27 Oct 10
00:52:17
Rick Valicenti on the real human presence in design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Finding the real human presence in design is a big task, but one that Rick Valicenti finds particularly interesting.
27 Oct 10
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Stylish and stackable
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Product Design
The Troy Chair by Marcel Wanders brings together elegance, comfort and practicality.
27 Oct 10
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Machine made
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Mechanical Couture, an exhibition at the Design Musuem Holon examines the relationship between craftmanship and mass production.
27 Oct 10
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Digital view
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Interaction Design
Jon Stam’s Imaginary Museum prototype project explores the ways in which we ascribe meaning to our virtual experiences.
27 Oct 10
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May the force be with you
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Craft
Inspired by space, designed on Earth, Mingo Lamberti’s new range of T-shirts brings a strong force with it.
26 Oct 10
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Wall wonder
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Product Design
It's almost hard to believe that something made of corrugated cardboard can look this good...
26 Oct 10
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Crayon couture
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Graphic Design & Illustration
High-end fashion and couture experienced as drawings and illustrations evoke a unique understanding of style.
25 Oct 10
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Open access
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Design Thinking
Women on bicycles, armed with a netbook and medical supplies, are helping to improve the lives of many people in rural Bangladesh.
25 Oct 10
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Techno wasteland
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Pieter Hugo's latest solo exhibition explores the connection between third world poverty and first world electronic waste.
24 Oct 10
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Shopping in style
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Urban & Landscape Design
Stylish, silent, sexy, Italian and great for shopping. The Shoppy Bike sounds like many a stylista's dream...
24 Oct 10
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Dutch Design Award 2010 winners
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The winners of the 2010 Dutch Design Awards were announced in Eindhoven in the Netherlands earlier this evening.
23 Oct 10
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Above and below
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On Earth as it is in Heaven is an exhibition of Conrad Botes's grappling with primal urges at the root of suffering.
23 Oct 10
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Easy for all
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Architecture & Interiors
Living Architecture is part social experiment, part democratising luxury. Either way, it’s an interesting concept.
23 Oct 10
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Everybody's backyard
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Urban & Landscape Design
Faith47’s latest project, a mural in the Cape Town CBD, is a tribute to those people pushed to the fringes, sometimes in our own backyard.
22 Oct 10
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Odd ones out
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Product Design
Hella Jongerius's first retrospective exhibition, Misfits explores notions of innovation versus standardisation.
22 Oct 10
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Power of reinvention
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Design Thinking
One man's junk is another’s treasure. Add creative flair and you’ve got some masterfully reinvented interior objects.
22 Oct 10
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Connecting bridge
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Architecture & Interiors
A new mega structure in Seoul, South Korea, is more than just a bridge... It generates its own power.
21 Oct 10
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Sexy shop
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Architecture & Interiors
Karim Rashid’s latest project is a sex toy boutique. His characteristically funky style works particularly well in this loving space.
21 Oct 10
00:34:55
Wally Olins on the branding of nations
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Creative Economy
Getting the branding identity of a country right has led to many positive results, Wally Olins explains.
21 Oct 10
00:24:22
Craig Wessels on animation and story
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Using animation creatively can go as far as one’s imagination allows.
21 Oct 10
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