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Inspirational interiors
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Design Indaba Expo 2010: Koa specialises in designing and producing interior furniture, lighting and accessories.
2 Feb 10
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Look Mom, No Hands
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Graphic Design & Illustration
True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album.
1 Feb 10
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New made rubbish
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Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways.
1 Feb 10
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Reused lights
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Design Indaba Expo 2010: Philippe Bousquet will also be showing his new collection of recycled lights, After Dark.
30 Jan 10
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Second Spier Contemporary exhibition opens
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Architecture & Interiors
The Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition will open its doors to show contemporary South African art for diverse audiences.
29 Jan 10
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A(cute)ly artistic
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Many of us use the word "cute" to describe the small, the adorable or the funny. But what does cute mean? The Cute Show takes a deeper look.
29 Jan 10
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Soccer art
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Creative Economy
Design Indaba Expo 2010: David Krut Publishing are the South Africa distributors of the FIFA 2010 Official Art Posters Edition series.
29 Jan 10
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Original origami
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design Indaba Expo 2010: New to the jewellery world, Emma Stricker’s handmade jewellery label, emma anne, uses metals in original ways.
28 Jan 10
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Tat's in town
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Craft
Southern Ink Xposure, the biggest tattoo event in the southern hemisphere returns to Cape Town from 22 to 24 January 2010.
20 Jan 10
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Peter Saville to open major Alan Fletcher retrospective
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Alan Fletcher: 50 Years of Graphic Work (and Play) shows at CUBE in Manchester from 21 January to 3 April 2010.
19 Jan 10
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Sweet art by girls
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Spookasem, opening at Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection on 20 January 2010, features a remarkable group of all-female SA creatives.
17 Jan 10
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Moggridge to direct Cooper-Hewitt
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Architecture & Interiors
The designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of IDEO, Bill Moggridge is now director of the US national design museum.
15 Jan 10
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Lucy Orta exhibits a land without borders
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Lucy Orta doesn’t just stand by and watch the world change. She creates the change she wants to see.
18 Dec 09
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Tom Dixon launches Utility
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Product Design
British lighting and furniture design maverick Tom Dixon have once again taken steps in innovation with their latest collection, Utility.
18 Dec 09
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Yves Behar: Design. Stories. Life
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Design brings stories to life, life brings design to a story and a story brings design to life, says the founder of Fuse Project.
11 Dec 09
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Brighton Festival calls on Brian Eno
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Creative Economy
Iconic culture figure and 1970s glam rocker, Brian Eno has been appointed as guest artistic director for next year’s Brighton Festival.
5 Dec 09
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Meet the authors at David Krut
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Creative Economy
David Krut publishing is hosting an eclectic selection of South African writers and poets to talk about "giving".
3 Dec 09
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Agency Leader of the Year award
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Creative Economy
For Design Indaba's Ravi Naidoo winning awards is nothing new, but last week’s Financial Mail AdFocus Awards took him by surprise.
3 Dec 09
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Kentridge in five
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Creative Economy
William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist.
2 Dec 09
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Know rules to break them
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Never Use White Type on a Black Background must be one of the most fun and quirky books one can read about design and fashion rules.
1 Dec 09
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The 10 000 hours manifesto
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Creative Economy
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise.
1 Dec 09
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50c business bible
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Music & Sound Design
The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008.
30 Nov 09
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CD: Shaka Won
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Music & Sound Design
After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won.
28 Nov 09
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CD: Mooi Besoedeling
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Music & Sound Design
For Zinkplaat's fourth album, designers Fanakalo.co.za created a scratch-off album cover.
27 Nov 09
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