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5.5 Designers on sustaining great design
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Product Design
5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable.
4 Jun 10
00:43:02
AdamsMorioka: what lies beneath
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Graphic Design & Illustration
AdamsMorioka reveal what lies beneath the slick, ultra-cool veneer of designers.
4 Jun 10
00:30:22
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire
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Product Design
For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people.
4 Jun 10
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Magnetic trailer park attraction
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Creative Economy
There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley.
4 Jun 10
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No tick, no tock
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic.
3 Jun 10
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The final countdown
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster.
3 Jun 10
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Li Edelkoort presents a future past
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Architecture & Interiors
A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future.
2 Jun 10
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Modular graphics
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook.
2 Jun 10
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The future is entertaining
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Creative Economy
Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity.
2 Jun 10
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Switched on competition
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Design Thinking
Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time.
2 Jun 10
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Alternative imaginations
Talks
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Creative Economy
Design is about love, not money, and believing in the potential of design being something for the whole world.
2 Jun 10
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Leather satchels and literacy
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion.
2 Jun 10
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Egyptian creativity on the design map
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Design Thinking
The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design.
2 Jun 10
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Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment
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Creative Economy
Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson.
1 Jun 10
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Three little pigs
Design News
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Product Design
Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter.
1 Jun 10
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Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit.
31 May 10
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Versatile Velcro
Design News
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Craft
Velcro has been used in everything from heart surgery to nuclear power plants and disposable nappies. Rachel O’Neill brings it to design.
31 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: User Design
Design News
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Product Design
As the world lifts itself from the rubble left by the economic downturn, design is taking a new turn and looking to new inspiration.
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: Michelle Ludik
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Step into a department store to buy clothes and you’re confronted with every possible style of design, yet never quite the style...
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: Cupcake Country
Design News
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Craft
There’s nothing more delicious than a freshly baked cupcake, straight out the oven and covered in gloriously thick sugary icing.
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture
Design News
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Product Design
Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea.
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: Ayesha Kamalie
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Product Design
Ayesha Kamalie isn’t just a painter, or a fashion designer, or a product designer. She’s all of these, as well as a qualified architect.
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: Springleap.com
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If a T-shirt is the staple garment in everyone’s wardrobe, then it makes sense for designers to use it as a platform for expression.
30 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: blue collar white collar
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If you’re looking for exclusively tailored casual and formal shirts of the highest standard, then you can stop looking.
30 May 10
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