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Success story: Imiso Ceramics
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Craft
Exhibiting at Design Indaba has enabled Imiso Ceramics to access their market, gain exposure and drive continued growth.
11 Jun 09
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Beat this bike!
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Urban & Landscape Design
Yves Béhar designs the Mission One Electric Motorcycle, the first electric sports bike that features uncompromised performance.
20 May 09
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Chic Afrique
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Music & Sound Design
In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience.
15 May 09
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Koos
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Music & Sound Design
Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released.
15 May 09
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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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Music & Sound Design
Stefan Sagmeister designs the packaging for the collector's edition of David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative album.
15 May 09
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Big Idea
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Creative Economy
Big Idea, by Sandu Cultural Media, is a compilation of winning works from seven international design competitions.
15 May 09
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As We Like It
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
As We Like It, published by Arnoldsche, covers the past 20 years of teacher and student work at the Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule.
15 May 09
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Eye of the beholder
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Creative Economy
Miss Beautiful is a photographic investigation into South Africa’s pageants by Stan Engelbrecht, with supporting stories by Tamsen de Beer.
15 May 09
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Get green, already!
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Design Thinking
Going Green by Simon Gear obliterates all silly excuses for not making simple changes that will benefit you, the planet and your fellows.
15 May 09
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Inside today’s pantry
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Food Design
crEATe is a timely overview of the state of our world’s pantry, researched and written by the Future Laboratory, published by Gestalaten.
15 May 09
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Can you taste when food is made with love?
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Creative Economy
Marije Vogelzang's debut monograph, Eat Love, poses some intriguing questions regarding food an the act of eating.
15 May 09
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Cape craft companies strut their stuff in Germany
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Craft
The Cape Craft and Design Institute took part on the dti stand at Ambiente, the annual German exhibition held in February.
14 May 09
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Reinvent yourself
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Apply now to have your creativity rebooted by Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker in their graphic design workshop from 20 to 25 July.
14 May 09
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Bey goes Brazilian
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Product Design
Dutch studio Makkink & Bey reinterpreted five classic pieces by Brazilian design masters.
14 May 09
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Third time lucky for Art Vespa entrant
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Graphic Design & Illustration
After three attempts in four years, David Newenhuizen of BandC Group scooped first prize in the 2009 Art Vespa design competition.
14 May 09
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The architecture of fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
SOUTH award finalist David West launched his Holbol Collection at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town during March.
14 May 09
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The hole ad
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Creative Economy
For an outdoor campaign for power drill Makita, Saatchi & Saatchi made 20 000 precision drilled holes to create an image of the tool.
14 May 09
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New order textiles
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In an unusual collaboration, architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville redo Kvadrat's showroom in London.
14 May 09
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Clay spandex
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The 2009 Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Fashion Design went to Jo'burg design duo Black Coffee.
14 May 09
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Intimate scale
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Philippe Bousquet, Geraldine Fenn and Marchand van Tonder exhibit their contemporary jewellery at the Bell-Roberts Gallery.
14 May 09
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Art funds libraries
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Cape Town's Jupiter Drawing Room agency generate funds for the South African Mobile Libraries Association.
14 May 09
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Urban art on auction
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Urban & Landscape Design
Cape Town graffiti artists raise money for underprivileged communities and new urban art space opens in Woodstock.
14 May 09
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A crystal full of sugar
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Product Design
Impish Spanish designer Jaime Hayon has created a limited edition set of crystal for Baccarat.
14 May 09
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Nampak winners announced
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Professional and student winners of the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge were announced at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo.
14 May 09
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Mi casa es su casa
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