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Something old for something new

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Using old tyres, Tyred create custom designed chairs, ottomans and tables that can be used indoors and outdoors.

20 Feb 10
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Holistic fusion

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Darren Lyon’s 1010 Creative brings a holistic philosophy to furniture making, the local community and the planet.

19 Feb 10
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Handmade showcase of craft creativity

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: The Exhibition Collection of the CCDI for the year 2010 features the work of 82 leading crafters in 91 displays.

19 Feb 10
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Professional industrial designers in action

Design News > Industrial Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Fresh from an exciting, award-winning and successful 2009, IDESO will once again be strutting their stuff.

18 Feb 10
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Beautiful birdman

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Winner of the 2009 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa, this year NOMILI has pushed 3D printing even further.

18 Feb 10
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Light prints

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Fundi Light and Living have explored striking combinations of natural tones in their new range.

17 Feb 10
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Cape Craft and Design Institute kicks off

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: The CCDI has developed programmes to support 1 400 craft enterprises in making the most out of 2010.

16 Feb 10
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Make vegetables felt

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Nuno’s Sue Kingma has developed a quirky range of vegetables made of felt - called “Imifuno”.

16 Feb 10
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Deconstructed male

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: SA’s leading purveyor of high-fashion menswear, Stiaan Louw will be launching his Winter 2010 range.

15 Feb 10
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Baskets for life

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Heath Nash collaborated with the New Basket Workshop to provide development skills to basket weavers in Zimbabwe.

15 Feb 10
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Creative wraps

Design News > Product Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Robyn van der Toorn, Ingrid Blohm and Deborah Inskon have initiated the funky Flowermill range of paper products.

15 Feb 10
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New image for Carrol Boyes

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: Carrol Boyes has launched a marketing campaign in conjunction with her six new pewter tableware ranges.

14 Feb 10
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Grooming young fashion talent

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Design Indaba Expo 2010: The Elizabeth Galloway Academy of Fashion Design will highlight the work of Tarien Malherbe and Elmé Bekker.

13 Feb 10
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Vinyl still a design showcase

Reviews > Music & Sound Design

Showcasing a diverse mix of art and design, it was Muse's The Resistance album that took first place in the 2009 Best Art Vinyl Awards.

12 Feb 10
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Hot Afro

Reviews > Design Thinking

Photographer Craig Fraser slips into the homes of some of South Africa's creative individuals to find distinctly South African interiors.

12 Feb 10
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Ai Weiwei

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors

An exploration of 21st-century multidisciplinary creative mastermind, Ai Weiwei, his outsize public persona and outspoken world views.

12 Feb 10
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The joke’s on you

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

The fourth Laugh It Off Annual is out and proving that it's possible to find humour just about anywhere if you're looking hard enough.

12 Feb 10
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The Tale of How

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

An absolutely beautifully illustrated book celebrating the success of the award-winning Blackheart Gang's animation.

12 Feb 10
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The power of ideas is in everyone

Reviews > Creative Economy

Ideas are slippery things, but by personifying them with moods and reason, you control your ideas and how they can shape your life.

12 Feb 10
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Inevitable architectural change

Reviews > Creative Economy

An up-to-the-minute commentary on contemporary architecture examining the changing innovations by the world's leading architects.

12 Feb 10
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Design: Intelligence Made Visible

Reviews > Creative Economy

Design heavyweights Terence Conran and Stephen Bayley come together to beautifully package and present this 300-page design encyclopaedia.

12 Feb 10
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English knows no bounds

Reviews > Creative Economy

The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of the English language, a plunge into the world of words and a dip into a decidedly interesting lexis.

12 Feb 10
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Tradition redesigned

Design News > Craft

Design Indaba Expo 2010: The Design Afrika warehouse in Woodstock is overflowing with exciting new products from all over the continent.

12 Feb 10
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Big in Brazil

Profiling > Product Design

Frederico Duarte sits down with Brazilian designer Marcelo Rosenbaum to unpack a celebrity status beyond the boundaries of design.

11 Feb 10

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