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Cardboard shelter
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Industrial Design
An origami-inspired corrugated cardboard shelter is a great temporary solution for the urban homeless and victims of disaster.
8 Oct 10
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20Q: Haldane Martin
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When he's not designing, Haldane Martin is probably out mountain biking. He also reveals something of his latest project, a bed system.
7 Oct 10
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Ponds for ecosystems
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Design Thinking
Domestic Ponds explores the benefits of ecosystems and looks at creative ways of bringing them into the home.
7 Oct 10
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Gun free, tree rich
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Design Thinking
A design campaign in Mexico called for the voluntary donation of weapons, and turned them into useful shovels with which to plant trees.
7 Oct 10
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Containing hope
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Tsai Design Studio's repurposed freight containers are bringing joy to poor communities in the Western Cape.
7 Oct 10
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SA Fashion Panel: Gavin Rajah, Amanda Laird Cherry and Nkhensani Nkosi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Three top South African fashion designers talk about their work, their influences, the state of the local industry and the discipline’s function.
6 Oct 10
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Built from beer (crates)
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Architects SHSH used beer crates for a temporary pavilion celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition.
6 Oct 10
00:37:42
BarberOsgerby: experimentation with colour and form
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Experimenting is an important part of the creative process for design duo BarberOsgerby.
5 Oct 10
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Friends with business benefits
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A new non-profit initiative is empowering local craft and design businesses for commercial success by teaching them valuable skills.
5 Oct 10
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20Q: Heath Nash
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Heath Nash doesn't need much of an introduction. He makes really beautiful things with recycled materials, and often wonders "but why?".
5 Oct 10
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Free sneakers!
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Music & Sound Design
Get a free pair of really funky sneakers when you purchase your cassette tape copy of Animal Collective's unreleased songs. Now!
5 Oct 10
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Haldane Martin now in Jozi
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Product Design
Brace yourselves Joburg design lovers. Haldane Martin has opened a showroom in Parktown North.
5 Oct 10
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Swimming success
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Information Design
A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam.
4 Oct 10
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Pick up the phone!
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The Punkt DP 01 is a funky new phone design by Jasper Morrison for a Swiss consumer electronics band.
3 Oct 10
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Hail to Heatherwick
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Architecture & Interiors
Thomas Heatherwick is the latest recipient of the coveted London Design Medal.
3 Oct 10
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Now and forever
Design News
Victorian lady or South African house maid? Mary Sibande's mixing of the two results is powerful social commentary.
2 Oct 10
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Needle & thread
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Simple yet effective. Pentagram designed the identity for the new Fashion Law Institute.
2 Oct 10
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Music makeover
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Architecture & Interiors
The Frits Philips Concert Hall in Eindhoven has undergone a transformation: Introducing the music centre of the future!
1 Oct 10
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Welcome to Residence 2.0
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Residence 2.0 might be the most energy-efficient home ever. It's setting the pace for green homes, and its rather beautiful.
1 Oct 10
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Well balanced
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Architecture & Interiors
The "Balancing Barn" sounds like a playroom for children, and is colourful too, but its allowing Joe Soap to enjoy top-notch architecture.
1 Oct 10
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Enabling communication
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Architecture & Interiors
UNStudio's Youturn Pavilion is part artwork, part architecture and part installation that encourages diverse forms of communication.
30 Sep 10
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Watershed photography
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Araminta de Clermont's exhibition, A New Beginning, explores the outer transition newly initiated young men go through.
30 Sep 10
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20Q: Wendren from Wren Design
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Making your life simpler, more organised and just more wonderful. That is what Wendren Milfrod of Wren wants her designs to do.
30 Sep 10
00:35:42
Tucker Viemeister: it always costs more not to design
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Industrial Design
For Tucker Viemeister, design is about persuasion, inspiration and trust.
29 Sep 10
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Daniel Ting Chong’s partnership with Local Brewery & Co. brings inclusivity and fashionable fun to craft beer
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Renowned Senegalese architect Fatiya Diene Mazza, who is founder of the firm ID+EA, has been instrumental in refreshing the infrastructure of her nation
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