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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
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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
Profiling
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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
Inside View
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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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President love dress
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Music & Sound Design
Odidiva, star of House of Holy Afro and the new face of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, explains the power of wearing a dress.
1 May 10
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Black to the closet
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Art & Photography
Photographer Zanele Muholi’s exploration of black female bodies has raised more than a couple of eyebrows.
1 May 10
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Money shot
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Creative Economy
Kathryn White explores the supposedly sexually aware advertising industry, exposing more than a few ironies.
1 May 10
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Support The Bookery!
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Design Thinking
The Bookery sounds like a place that belongs to the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. And it’s working the same kind of magic.
30 Apr 10
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Seeing is believing
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Product Design
Yves Béhar has designed a funky collection of eyeglasses to help Mexican school children See Better to Learn Better.
30 Apr 10
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Matali Crasset in the kitchen
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Product Design
Alessi recently launched their “Essentiel de pâtisserie” collection by Parisian designer Matali Crasset.
29 Apr 10
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Clive Rundle impresses at Paris Fashion Week
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Clive Rundle's "Marie Antoinette returns to Paris after attending a lesbian wedding in Africa" was well received at Paris Fashion Week.
29 Apr 10
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Design an eco-friendly building
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Design Thinking
Sustainability is important in the built environment so here's a chance to show off your eco-friendly building designs.
29 Apr 10
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Welcome to Hotel Yeoville
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Interaction Design
Hotel Yeoville utilises the internet to make people feel at home, wherever they are in the world.
29 Apr 10
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