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Craft debate: Marisa Fick-Jordaan
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Craft
Designer, development consultant and Design Indaba Expo curator and exhibitor, Marisa Fick-Jordaan weighs in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Lauren Shantall
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Craft
Deputy editor of Elle Decoration SA, Design Indaba Expo curator and media partner, Lauren Shantall weighs in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Maxim Velčovský
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Craft
Product designer, DI2008 speaker and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participant, Maxim Velčovský weighs in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Geraldine Fenn
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Jeweller and Design Indaba Expo curator and exhibitor, Geraldine Fenn weighs in on Design Indaba's craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Craft debate: Satyendra Pakhalé
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Craft
Industrial designer, DI2006 speaker and Design Indaba 10x10 Industrial project participant, Satyendra Pakhalé weighs in on the craft debate.
1 Feb 09
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Save the designer 5.5
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Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession.
1 Nov 08
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SA: The US of Africa
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Durban-based graphic designer Garth Walker has created a politically incorrect new exhibition for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale.
1 Nov 08
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Power art
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba alumnus Luba Lukova releases a portfolio of political posters.
1 Nov 08
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Sharing is caring
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Interaction Design
Based on a currency of sharing, cyberspace is resurrecting community and equality writes digital scholar Philipp Schmidt.
1 Nov 08
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Exquisite scales
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Product Design
Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design.
1 Nov 08
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Fear of flying
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Interaction Design
Thrill engineer Brendan Walker talks about the psychological, biological and narrative elements that feed kicks.
1 Nov 08
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$100 000 prize for Design Indaba 10x10
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Design Thinking
MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge.
1 Nov 08
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The mad Moxyland empire heads for world domination
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Music & Sound Design
Moxyland is Lauren Beukes's debut novel giving rise to a growing multimedia empire of toys, a soundtrack and online materials.
1 Nov 08
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Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
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Urban & Landscape Design
Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design.
1 Nov 08
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X-rated peace and diversity
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A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists.
1 Nov 08
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Designer rubbish
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town.
1 Nov 08
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Rhode hits London streets
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South African art lovers have long known that Robin Rhode's stop-motion street-inspired art is too cool for school, now he's hit London.
1 Nov 08
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Draw and draw again
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg.
1 Nov 08
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The Art of Possibility Returns
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Music & Sound Design
Benjamin and Rosamund Zander to return for more Art of Possibility on December 1 and 3, after a jam-packed programme across South Africa.
1 Nov 08
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Nampak packaging design challenge
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge
1 Nov 08
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Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
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Product Design
The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments.
1 Nov 08
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SVW scholarship and workshop
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Graphic Design & Illustration
New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days.
1 Nov 08
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Meta/physical
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Interaction Design
Belgian choreographer Frederic Flamand and Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana give life to Ovid's Metamorphosis poems.
1 Nov 08
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City of type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography.
1 Nov 08
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