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Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch
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Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever.
1 Feb 09
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Red and blue reconcile online
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Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”.
1 Feb 09
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Top SA industrial design
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Industrial Design
A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008.
1 Feb 09
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Dreaming in kid-colour
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design.
1 Feb 09
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Cool beer city
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Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema.
1 Feb 09
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Bracelets with megabyte
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African Design
Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage.
1 Feb 09
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The blue house
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Product Design
Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs.
1 Feb 09
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Eight ball bling
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls.
1 Feb 09
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Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town
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Creative Economy
South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September.
1 Feb 09
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Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award
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Creative Economy
Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa.
1 Feb 09
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Harsh geometry for plants
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Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics.
1 Feb 09
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All hail Gazelle!
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Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery.
1 Feb 09
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Final year clearance sale
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner.
1 Feb 09
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Woven islands
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Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008.
1 Feb 09
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Design cul-cha
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“Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition.
1 Feb 09
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Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
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All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot.
1 Feb 09
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Rex shows at the World Bank
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Creative Economy
The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington.
1 Feb 09
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Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin
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Graphic Design & Illustration
After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin.
1 Feb 09
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Frame the family tree
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Product Design
Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”.
1 Feb 09
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Building bible
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Creative Economy
It was with much anticipation that the updated Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture was received.
1 Feb 09
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Pure not poor
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
“Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa.
1 Feb 09
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SA in graphic prime
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry.
1 Feb 09
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The Interior World of Tom Dixon
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Creative Economy
The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish.
1 Feb 09
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The Art of Romance
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Art of Romance takes you on a journey through the cheesy history of Mills & Boons and Harlequin book covers.
1 Feb 09
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