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Travelling on trains with kids
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons.
1 Nov 08
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Not quite Discovery Channel
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Architecture & Interiors
The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals.
1 Nov 08
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Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
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Music & Sound Design
Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona.
1 Nov 08
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Paula Scher does China
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series.
1 Nov 08
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And now for the black blob
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Architecture & Interiors
The design for a new concert and congress centre in Budvar, Czech Republic, has been unveiled by Future Systems, led by Jan Kaplicky.
1 Nov 08
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Design Indaba film to air
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United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October.
1 Nov 08
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Waste worthy of art
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Design Thinking
The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used.
1 Nov 08
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Shrinking the art world
Design News
The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound.
1 Nov 08
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The gospel truth
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Product Design
Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia.
1 Nov 08
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But how does nature make you feel?
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Design Thinking
An exploration of design inspired by the natural world, the release of Fabiola Reyes’s Nature, by Spanish publishing house Monso is timely.
1 Nov 08
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Green goes orange
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Design Thinking
Architecture of Change is a book about sustainable buildings, and the cover has not a single shade of green.
1 Nov 08
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Design stuffs its face
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Creative Economy
Fabrico Próprio: The Design of Portuguese Semi-Industrial Confectionery makes a strong case for the design fame of 90 single-serving cakes.
1 Nov 08
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Tangible brand marks
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Creative Economy
Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market.
1 Nov 08
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Sound/culture smash
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Music & Sound Design
Paul D Miller – aka DJ Spooky – addresses “the remix” in his new book Sound Unbound.
1 Nov 08
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Bhangra
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Music & Sound Design
Bhangra is a musical genre that grew out of the diasporic Indian community in Britain and was popularised through dancehalls.
1 Nov 08
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Waaksaam en Wakker
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Music & Sound Design
Although originally the offspring of Fokofpolisiekar, Van Coke Kartell have grown into themselves with a second album, Waaksaam en Wakker.
1 Nov 08
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No more songs for girls
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Music & Sound Design
Jo’burg indie electro outfit Model C have been described as “a dirty and beautiful eight-bit soundtrack that crawls under your skin”.
1 Nov 08
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Bird on a wire
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration.
1 Nov 08
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Springleap vs Threadless
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless.
1 Nov 08
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Four legs good, two legs bad
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Urban & Landscape Design
Creative consultancy Animal Farm is born of a world where some are more equal than others.
1 Nov 08
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Head honcho
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success.
1 Nov 08
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Worldly stuff
Profiling
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Music & Sound Design
Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
1 Nov 08
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DIY electronic eco-design?
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Design Thinking
Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change.
1 Nov 08
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Hot or cold?
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Product Design
Visiting the London Design Festival, Nadine Botha finds herself torn between sustainable and pop.
1 Nov 08
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