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Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey
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Creative Economy
William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour.
2 Nov 07
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Volume control
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Product Design
At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges.
2 Nov 07
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1 000 lights make green work
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Design Thinking
Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights.
2 Nov 07
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The plight of healing plants
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Interaction Design
Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.
2 Nov 07
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Wire dressed up as lamb
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Craft
“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town.
2 Nov 07
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Metal muscle
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Product Design
Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials.
2 Nov 07
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Coming out in shells
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Craft
Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
2 Nov 07
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Porcelain menagerie of memories
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Product Design
Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.
2 Nov 07
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The public secret of avatars
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Design Thinking
Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.
2 Nov 07
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Five-day wooden house
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Design Thinking
Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build.
2 Nov 07
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Hillbrow, London
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.
2 Nov 07
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Underground at Woolworths
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Urban & Landscape Design
Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.
2 Nov 07
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The bobo movement
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.
2 Nov 07
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MCQP is FAB
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Creative Economy
What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering.
2 Nov 07
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Tsai times two
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Product Design
Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.
2 Nov 07
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Shoe-wow!
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Industrial Design
Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.
2 Nov 07
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Tall tale for kids
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards.
2 Nov 07
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‘You can’t bomb an idea’
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...
2 Nov 07
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Crafting a difference
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
2 Nov 07
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1+1 makes 3
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Product Design
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.
1 Nov 07
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Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
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Interaction Design
In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington.
1 Nov 07
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From the stomach to the heart
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Food Design
“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.
1 Nov 07
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Kill the copy cat
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Design Thinking
Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights.
1 Nov 07
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Maximum velocity
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Product Design
When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique.
1 Nov 07
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