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Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
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Creative Economy
Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts.
1 Feb 09
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Doodle for a Difference
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings.
1 Feb 09
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Futures to believe in
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Creative Economy
Dion Chang has put together a series of essays on the way the world will be very soon in The 2009 Flux Trend Review.
1 Feb 09
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Not just an album design pioneer
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design.
1 Feb 09
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Citizen of the World
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Music & Sound Design
Internationally celebrated jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça has released his second Moreira Project album, Citizen of the World.
1 Feb 09
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Bellville Rock City
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Music & Sound Design
The CD/DVD box set Bellville Rock City offers a veritable resource of profiles, music videos, tracks and documentary coverage.
1 Feb 09
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The revolution of possibility
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Design Thinking
Bruce Mau talks about people connecting across cultures, languages, religions and national boundaries to solve the challenges of the world.
1 Feb 09
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Watt the folk
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Music & Sound Design
Daniel Friedman, whose alter ego is singer-songwriter Deep Fried Man, ventures in search of South African new folk music.
1 Feb 09
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Made in tjina
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Craft
Potter John Bauer is immortalising South Africa’s doily heritage through porcelain and has found happiness in craft.
1 Feb 09
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Dancing pictures
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Film & Animation
Nadine Botha talks to the resident kidults of Am I Collective about their new animation project, Disko.
1 Feb 09
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A spoonful of sugar
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Justin McGuirk
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Craft
Editor of Icon, a Design Indaba media partner, Justin McGuirk weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Paul Priestman
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Craft
Industrial designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Paul Priestman weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Alex Steffen
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Design Thinking
Editor of Worldchanging.com and Design Indaba 2007 speaker, Alex Steffen weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Elsie Nanji
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Creative Economy
Creative director and Design Indaba 2004 speaker, Elsie Nanji weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Christine Moosmann
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Craft
Editor of Novum magazine, a Design Indaba media partner, Christine Moosmann weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Nkhensani Nkosi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion designer, Design Indaba Expo exhibitor and Design Indaba 2008 speaker, Nkhensani Nkosi weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Professor Neil Gershenfeld
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Information Design
Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and Design Indaba 2007 speaker, Professor Neil Gershenfeld weighs in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Sean O’Toole
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Craft
Editor of Art South Africa, Design Indaba Expo exhibitor and media partner, Sean O'Toole weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Frederico Duarte
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Craft
Design writer and Design Indaba media partner, Frederico Duarte weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft Debate: Stefan Sagmeister
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Craft
Graphic designer and Design Indaba 2003 speaker, Stefan Sagmeister weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Frauke Stegmann
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic and porcelain designer, and Design Indaba Expo exhibitor, Frauke Stegmann weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec
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Product designers and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participants, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec weigh in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Inga Sempé
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Product designer and Design Indaba 2006 speaker, Inga Sempé weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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