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Love thy neighbour
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Design Thinking
Live and let live, sew your own clothes, grow your own veggies and stop the blame game. Meet one writer/activist that's made this work.
22 Sep 10
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Detract from doom
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Interaction Design
The Ars Electronica 2010 festival considered the world's impending doom and examined some of the innovative alternatives.
21 Sep 10
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Connecting people
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Interaction Design
Airside's new animations for Nokia are about connecting people, places and every day experiences.
21 Sep 10
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20Q: Chris from Undacova Underwear
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Chris Kilchling from Undacova draws inspiration from life for his designs. He also recycles culture, with creative results.
21 Sep 10
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Poster people
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Graphic Design & Illustration
For many years posters have been an effective means of communicating social or political messages. Now see a local creative's take on it.
21 Sep 10
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Hats off
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Naoto Fukasawa's new collection of hats are made entirely of paper, but beautifully crafted.
20 Sep 10
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Bright lights
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Product Design
Nicolas Roope's Plumen is coming to the creative rescue of low energy light bulbs.
19 Sep 10
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Sizzling SodaStream
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Product Design
SodaStream is back on the scene. This time around it's eco-friendly and sports a funky Karim Rashid design.
19 Sep 10
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Mobile lifeline
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Design Thinking
The Lifeplayer is a new mobile innovation with the potential to dramatically improve the state of education in Africa.
18 Sep 10
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Saved by the Life Sack
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Industrial Design
The Life Sack is an innovative way to repurpose grain while also purifying contaminated water.
18 Sep 10
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Can-do accommodation
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Design Thinking
House-in-a-Can is both a cost-effective housing solution and a novel way of giving unused grain silos a second life.
18 Sep 10
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A stitch in time
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Craft
A charity initiative in the UK is teaching valuable craft skills to prisoners, and their designs are interestingly unique.
17 Sep 10
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Rural imitations
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Product Design
Strolling through what feels like washing lines, conjures up feelings of being in a rural village while embracing its sensuality.
17 Sep 10
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Shin-ichi Takemura: how the internet can address social problems
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Information Design
With the internet making real-time worldwide connections possible, it can be creatively applied to address social problems.
16 Sep 10
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Superstars at DI2010
Design Indaba Campaigns
The artworks of Design Indaba’s national creative team have been immortalised at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
16 Sep 10
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20Q: Marije Vogelzang
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Food Design
As a child she wanted to be Santa Claus's helper. But today Marije Vogelzang brings a different kind of fantasy to people's lives.
16 Sep 10
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Made in Japan
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Future Beauty is an exhibition that examines how Japanese fashion refined couture, challenged notions of beauty and turned fashion into art.
15 Sep 10
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Two wheeling
Design News
A gorgeous coffee table book about local cycling culture will help to improve the lives of struggling bicycle commuters.
15 Sep 10
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Rockstars & reformers
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Urban & Landscape Design
PASS Radio effectively uses the internet to facilitate a progressive cause.
15 Sep 10
00:39:55
Frank Tjepkema on designing negatives into positives
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Product Design
Frank Tjepkema jokes that every designer’s portfolio includes a vase, but he believes design should also facilitate positive social change.
14 Sep 10
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Sand scribblings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Sea, sand, sunshine and a dash of beautiful lettering and you've got a unique work of art on a totally natural canvas.
13 Sep 10
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Alternative weather forecast
Design News
Scientific data is often up in the air. But when translated by artist Natalie Miebach it becomes a lot more tactile.
13 Sep 10
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Brief benefits
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Design Thinking
Proceeds from PACT's funky new underwear collection will help artist's with development disabilities.
13 Sep 10
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Innovative excellence
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Product Design
Super Design 2010 highlights the synergy between visual arts and design, and features the best in recent innovation.
13 Sep 10
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Dioramas of Damascus, made from repurposed materials, tell the story of a fractured Syrian city
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