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New Ubuntu Award at The Loeries
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Creative Economy
The Ubuntu Award is a new category at The Loeries, recognising brands that are making a positive difference.
3 May 10
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A little less conversation
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Interaction Design
The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever.
3 May 10
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Milk anyone?
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Product Design
The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje.
2 May 10
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Biologically creative
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems.
2 May 10
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Blame it on the bunny
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful.
2 May 10
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African Bondage
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.
2 May 10
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Many ways to love
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Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition.
2 May 10
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Changing the inappropriate
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Product Design
“Pussy, Ass & Dick.” To most people these words are inappropriate and vulgar, their use impermissible in society. Arik Levy challenges that.
2 May 10
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Beneath the surface
Design News
There’s something that makes you double take when you look at a piece of Stuart Bird’s work. At first you simply see it for the artwork...
2 May 10
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A little koekie time
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book.
2 May 10
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Sensual beginnings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Tracey-Lee Scully's Auto-Erotic Photo-Romantic project was inspired by her travels to Berlin and the Photoautomat machines in the city.
2 May 10
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Queering Anne
Design News
If Queen Anne of England was alive today there’s a good chance she’d have plenty to say about Ernst van der Val’s ball&claw series.
2 May 10
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A rubber history
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Architecture & Interiors
While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it.
2 May 10
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Delicious second skin
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams.
2 May 10
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Fun in four seconds
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Product Design
Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design.
2 May 10
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Metallic masterpiece
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Product Design
The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia.
2 May 10
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Double the fun
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Product Design
The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series.
2 May 10
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Oh so hip Bone
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Product Design
Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that...
2 May 10
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Sentient cool
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Art & Photography
Fine artist and commercial photographer Leah Hawker sourced everything in this photoshoot from the 2010 Design Indaba Expo.
1 May 10
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Sex is the new yellow
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Creative Economy
According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback.
1 May 10
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The other 90%
Profiling
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Maciek Dubla talks to Stefan G Bucher about being responsible to your ideas, and the need to control your greed.
1 May 10
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The zefff-sters
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Music & Sound Design
Not just another article about Die Antwoord, Henry Cloete also asks Leon Botha and Jack Parow: “The answer to what?”
1 May 10
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To form and multiply
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Interaction Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg asks what traditional design can bring to synthetic biology.
1 May 10
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Ordinary peeps
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Film & Animation
Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus likes to think that behind each face he passes daily, is a web of sexual deviation and anarchy.
1 May 10
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Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year
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