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Administer design daily
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design duo Dokter and Misses are set up shop in Brixton with their cardboard handbags and heavy metal bling.
16 Nov 09
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Pictures speak louder than prisoners
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Creative life-skills programme Young in Prison displays its outcomes at Word of Art studios in Cape Town.
15 Nov 09
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Unnatural landscape
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Johannesburg fashion designer Suzaan Heyns collaborated with photographer Brett Rubin to shoot her Spring/Summer 2009 collection.
14 Nov 09
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Zapiro’s puppets find airtime online
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The satirical ZA NEWS puppet show created by Zapiro and Thierry Cassuto has finally found a way to broadcast – by going online.
13 Nov 09
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Massimo Vignelli interview: Part 2 of 2
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Product Design
Part 2 of 2: Interview in which Massimo Vignelli elaborates on how recessions awake dull minds and spur innovation.
12 Nov 09
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Massimo Vignelli interview: Part 1 of 2
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Part 1 of 2: Interview with preeminent multi-disciplinary designer Massimo Vignelli, who has been working in the field for over 55 years.
12 Nov 09
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Super normal shop
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The Jasper Morrison Shop is housed in an unused part of his new studio.
12 Nov 09
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Bronzed disposables
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The Boym Partners’s new collection, Timeless Objects, attempts to make everyday objects as timeless as ancient bronze monuments.
11 Nov 09
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Candy and hotdog rocks
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American Chateau features grandiose tongue-in-cheek works by Jaime Hayon and Nienke Klunder.
10 Nov 09
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Formative fantasy
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Diptych showed scraperboard visuals by Charlotte Janse van Vuuren and sculptures by Michaella Janse van Vuuren.
9 Nov 09
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Pandamonium for a living planet
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The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) have used the power of art and design to communicate the importance of climate change.
8 Nov 09
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What if designers were scientists?
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Interaction Design
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby have curated an exhibition of hypothetical future designs.
7 Nov 09
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Many hands make art work
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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
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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
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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
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Information Design
Stuart McMillen presents a cartoon visualisation of two of the best-known futurist doctrines.
3 Nov 09
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Stillife
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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
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Ilse Crawford launches her newest range, Seating for Eating.
3 Nov 09
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Stillife
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Batandwa Alperstein evaluates the pros and cons of vertical farming.
1 Nov 09
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