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Construction New Media Awards

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1 Nov 02
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Architectural Indaba

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors

Between 4,5 and 5 million South Africans have received "secure tenure" homes since 1994. Sean O'Toole looks beyond the statistics.

1 Aug 02
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First things first

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Sean O'Toole spoke to Kalle Lasn, asking him about his decision to revive a dusty design manifesto from 1964.

1 Aug 02
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The design virus

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Sean O'Toole interviews Jonathan Barnbrook.

1 Aug 02
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United colours

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Fernando Gutierrez is widely regarded as a designer at the fore of contemporary magazine design. Sean O'Toole recently spoke with him.

1 Aug 02
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The bleeding edge

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

Amy Westervelt interviews Stefan Sagmeister.

1 Aug 02
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Representing illusions

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

At the heart of recent discussions on sustainable development lie illusions. These illusions are founded on images, writes Lewis Blackwell.

1 Aug 02
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Trusting the truth

Opinion > Art & Photography

Trust is not a word one often associates with documentary photography, writes Sean O'Toole.

1 Aug 02
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Digital Indaba

Opinion > Interaction Design

Futurefarmers vs Razorfish on conscientious design.

1 Aug 02
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Each one teach one

Opinion

A group of 'street photographers', all from the Cape Town area, have banded together to form the Umlilo Photographers Association.

1 Aug 02
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The great brown world

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

All that is good is brown, according to Richard Rodriguez.

1 Aug 02
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Cardboard city

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Shigeru Ban's experiments with paper architecture over the past 10 years have encompassed diverse constructions.

1 May 02
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Shooting from the lip

Q&A > Graphic Design & Illustration

James Victore is an independent graphic designer whose posters hang in many permanent collections around the world.

1 May 02
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The face of type

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

Erik Spiekermann is a tireless and outspoken talking head for the functional and aesthetic design of absolutely everything.

1 May 02
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The spirit of photography

Opinion > Art & Photography

Back to the Khumb Mela, the Hindu festival that takes place every 12 years outside Allahabad.

1 May 02
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Thought for food

Q&A > Food Design

Nicky Apostolis interviewed Marti Guixé after his lecture at Design Indaba. But after one question, they drew pictures instead.

1 May 02
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Divas by design

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Luba Lukova from New York, Teresa Roviras from London, Lucille Tenazas from San Francisco.

1 May 02
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Summer folly

Opinion > Architecture & Interiors

CT's topography forms a dramatic and vertiginous backdrop to a delightful glass tree house that's perfect for lofty summer city living.

1 May 02
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Drawing blanks

Opinion > Graphic Design & Illustration

Go to any city in South Africa and take a look at what's hanging on the lampposts. Not much, really.

1 May 02
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Drawing the online

Design News

Joshua Davis is a visual, virtual artist – the mouse is a brush, the pixels are paint. By his own admission, his work is not always useful.

1 May 02
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What goes around comes around

Opinion > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Fast-forwarding into the future, fashion increasingly rewinds to the past.

1 Feb 02
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Netactivist

Design News

Hans A Bernhard is the civil name of hans_extrem, etoy.HANS, etoy.BRAINHARD, net_CALLBOY.

1 Feb 02
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The best of Mark Farrow

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Manchester born Mark Farrow has been called one of the heroes of the creative industries by Creative Review Magazine and deservedly so.

1 Feb 02
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Ancestral design

Opinion > Design Thinking

Beads have become a tourist delight, but what about beads as a symbol of another reality, writes Moshidi Motshegwa.

1 Feb 02

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Decorative discouragement: The dirty tricks in architecture

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Hilary Cottam: Fixing social services through design

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Hilary Cottam, a social entrepreneur and "accidental designer" from the UK, talks about how design and technology can be used to fix serious social problems. >
Redesigning the British Welfare State with Hilary Cottam

Talks • 21 Oct 16

British social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam is working to innovate and update the Welfare State. >
A non-mechanical water device designed for rural South Africa

Design News • 21 Oct 16

This 2016 design graduate designed a non-mechanical solution to hand washing in rural South Africa and is exhibiting it as part of the Dubai Global Grad Show. >

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