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Music fun in a packet
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Music & Sound Design
MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK.
1 Nov 08
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New fair trade shop in South Africa
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Architecture & Interiors
British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November.
1 Nov 08
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SA fashion hits the silver screen
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa.
1 Nov 08
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Witty wallpaper
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness.
1 Nov 08
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The end of minimalism
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Product Design
Stefano Giovannoni’s OrienTales opens a new chapter in the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan.
1 Nov 08
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Cattle heads ceramics competition
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Craft
This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth.
1 Nov 08
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Full moon for eco-fashion
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Design Thinking
Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week.
1 Nov 08
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Cops coin it on Sagmeister
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Architecture & Interiors
Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September.
1 Nov 08
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Hot foreigners in Jozi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi.
1 Nov 08
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The art of fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate.
1 Nov 08
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Tees for trees
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation.
1 Nov 08
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Direct via the Transkei
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Product Design
South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets.
1 Nov 08
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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
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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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