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Many hands make art work

Design News > Design Thinking

Twenty artists have collaborated to create a life-size painting of a Percheron to benefit the Cart Horse Protection Association.

6 Nov 09
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Index: to improve life

Design News > Design Thinking

Boasting the largest purse of any design competition INDEX: 2009 shared 500 000 euros between five category winners.

6 Nov 09
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Reflect your creativity

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

Illustrator Joshua Davis has applied his algorithms to his new Reﬂect iPhone application.

4 Nov 09
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Amusing ourselves to death

Lookbook > Information Design

Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines.

3 Nov 09
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Stillife

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Photographer Ross Garrett and stylist Caroline Olavarrieta evoke an austere vision of the future pastoral.

3 Nov 09
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Family furniture

Design News > Product Design

Ilse Crawford launches her newest range, Seating for Eating.

3 Nov 09
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Stillife

Lookbook > Art & Photography

Photographer Ross Garrett and stylist Caroline Olavarrieta evoke an austere vision of the future pastoral.

2 Nov 09
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Tribal pride

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Photographer Romi Stern and stylist Kim Warrington create new age tribes on a progressive, urban vision of Africa.

2 Nov 09
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Hartmut Esslinger on the DNA of Design

Talks > Information Design

Through case studies and analysis of process and product, Hartmut Esslinger deconstructs the DNA of design and advises on design survival.

2 Nov 09
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Respect cheap design

Design News > Product Design

Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”.

2 Nov 09
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Extreme gardening

Design News > Design Thinking

The Sahara Forest Project proposes to reverse desertification and turn arid regions into resources of food, fresh water and clean energy.

1 Nov 09
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Sky's the limit

Opinion > Design Thinking

Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming.

1 Nov 09
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Cement garden

Design News

CMG Landscape Architecture’s Crack Gardens transform existing concrete slabs through hostile takeover.

1 Nov 09
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Farm with a view

Design News > Design Thinking

Growing food inside apartments is a challenge, but within reach with Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray's Window Farms.

1 Nov 09
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Space explorer

Q&A > Product Design

Frank Tjepkema tells Design Indaba about the new frontiers of design.

1 Nov 09
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Crop share actionism

Profiling > Design Thinking

Designer Amy Franceschini tells Design Indaba how to turn a keyboard into a pitchfork.

1 Nov 09
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Transhuman metamorphosis

Q&A > Interaction Design

Design Indaba speaks to designer Revital Cohen about her design provocations.

1 Nov 09
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Gay architectural mockumentary

Reviews > Architecture & Interiors

Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film.

1 Nov 09
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Channel O lucky packet

Design News > Music & Sound Design

The new magazine Coco Joe has been conceived as a brand extension for Channel O by Peet Pienaar and design studio The President.

1 Nov 09
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The don of design

Opinion > Product Design

Designindaba.com caught up with Massimo Vignelli in Cape Town and discovered a man for whom design is a way of life.

1 Nov 09
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Soil soul

Profiling > Urban & Landscape Design

Multiple award-winning designer David Davidson believes gardening is as good for our minds as it is for the planet.

1 Nov 09
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Victimless meat

Design News > Food Design

Marije Vogelzang’s Faked Meat started as a reaction to meat substitutes.

1 Nov 09
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Leapfrog rising sea levels

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Lilypad by architect Vincent Callebaut is a floating ecopolis for climate refugees in 2100.

1 Nov 09
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Molecular meat

Design News > Product Design

Cocoon by Rickard Hederstierna is a response to the world’s growing population and its desire to consume meat and fish.

1 Nov 09

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