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Exorcised ghosts
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Pedro Gadanho writes about the family home he recently completed in Oporto River in Portugal.
14 Apr 09
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Rockefeller Foundation co-sponsors Innovation Prize
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Design Thinking
The newly established African Carbon Trust seeks a South African company to match the Rockefeller Foundation's pledge towards innovation.
14 Apr 09
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5.5 designers at DI2009
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Product Design
Far from focusing only on shaping objects, 5.5 designers enforce a conceptual rigour that sees them permanently question their design status
8 Apr 09
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W+K Delhi answers all at DI2009
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Creative Economy
V Sunil of W+K Delhi responds to Design Indaba Conference 2009 audience questions submitted via SMS.
20 Mar 09
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Haldane Martin Pecha Kucha
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Established South African furniture designer Haldane Martin discusses his work and inspiration.
19 Mar 09
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Dai Fujiwara answers all at DI2009
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Dai Fujiwara, creative director of Issey Miyake, responds to Design Indaba Conference 2009 audience questions submitted via SMS.
19 Mar 09
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Revital Cohen Pecha Kucha
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Interaction Design
Royal College of Arts top graduate in interaction design, Revital Cohen presents her provocative work in Pecha Kucha format.
19 Mar 09
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Commonwealth answers all at DI2009
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Architecture & Interiors
David Boira and Zoë Coombes of Commonwealth are two architecturally trained furniture designers.
16 Mar 09
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Stephen Burks answers all at DI2009
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Craft
Design Indaba 2009 was not Stephen Burks’s first visit to South Africa.
16 Mar 09
00:02:06
Nobumichi Tosa's bright peace world
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Product Design
Nobumichi Tosa's quirky and inspired, youthful perspective is made manifest in his limitless innovations – his "nonsense machines".
6 Mar 09
00:01:52
Stephen Burks: Connecting design to people
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Product Design
Stephen Burks discusses his recent work with African artisans and craftsmen – addressing issues of collaboration and distribution.
6 Mar 09
00:03:15
Commonwealth at DI2009
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Industrial Design
Commonwealth aims to produce work that embodies elegant design, through engagement with both newest of tools and the oldest technologies.
6 Mar 09
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Design Indaba 2009 Commercial
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Jupiter Drawing Room's advertising campaign for Design Indaba 2009 asks, "What can your creativity do?"
19 Feb 09
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Book for the simulcast
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The Design Indaba Young Designers Simulcast brings the wit and wisdom of the best of the best to young designers and students under 25.
18 Feb 09
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Know more today tomorrow
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Photographer Brett Rubin, fashion stylist Carey Watson and decor stylist Kate Boswell take Design Indaba Expo produce beyond the present.
3 Feb 09
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Know more today tomorrow
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Photographer Brett Rubin, fashion stylist Carey Watson and decor stylist Kate Boswell take Design Indaba Expo produce beyond the present.
3 Feb 09
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Crafts: A matter of scale and pace
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Craft
Trend forecaster Li Edelkoort writes about the craft of smaller scale, slower pace and sustainable style.
2 Feb 09
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Fabulous fantasia
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Product Design
Marcel Wanders has designed more than a lifetime’s worth of knotted chairs – he’s designed himself.
2 Feb 09
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Design Indaba launches product range
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Product Design
Spawned by a passion to create quality design at affordable costs, Design Indaba launches its Free Range at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo.
1 Feb 09
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Head start on 2010 fever
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Product Design
Michael Souter is adding to the 2010 fever with his “makarabas” (sculpted hard hats) that fuse urban culture, design and sporting passion.
1 Feb 09
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Dead bull
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Designer and Google creative director, Ji Lee’s illustration for Portfolio magazine sums up the economic times.
1 Feb 09
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Winners turn the table
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Design Thinking
The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table.
1 Feb 09
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Dog tag for dating
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Information Design
Ever sat at work and wondered what your pooch is up to? Put your idle thoughts to rest with SNIF, developed by Readymade in Pretoria.
1 Feb 09
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Horse saddle redesigned after 200 years
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Industrial Design
Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries.
1 Feb 09
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