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Diminutive disaster
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Constantin Boym talks about what the 20th century taught him about the power of the miniature and memory.
1 Aug 08
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"Having guts always works out for me"
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba reads Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister.
1 Aug 08
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Line drawings and delicate porcelains
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Cape Town's Curious, Whetstone and Frankley shows Rikus Ferreira's fantastical illustrations and multimedia works, Varkore in die Skemer.
1 Aug 08
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Puff and pass
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Music & Sound Design
The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4.
1 Aug 08
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From Surface to Parsons
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Design Thinking
Laetitia Wolff has announced that she has taken up the position of Director of Strategic Alliances at Parsons and The New School.
1 Aug 08
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Sunflower power
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Design Thinking
Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece.
1 Aug 08
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From Talking Heads to singing building
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Music & Sound Design
David Byrne turned architecture into a musical instrument and invited the public to "play the building", in an abandoned New York building.
1 Aug 08
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Design votes out Mugabe
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg.
1 Aug 08
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Side profile
Profiling
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Design Thinking
Starchitect Cameron Sinclair has been recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
1 Aug 08
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True to type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Young designers in Kosovo are building a new visual order. Peet Pienaar speaks to typographer and information designer Yll Rugova.
1 Aug 08
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Don't hate me because I'm gorgeous
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Art & Photography
Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko captures the frayed edges of trends and reconstituted spaces.
1 Aug 08
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Gardening on pavements
Opinion
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Music & Sound Design
Lloyd Gedye and Michael MacGarry explain the value of a physical publication to an independent music scene.
1 Aug 08
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Look ma, no skool
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Ontwerp.TV have struck a balance between commercial output and their ideals by generating influential underground marketing.
1 Aug 08
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The house that Pancho built
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Architecture & Interiors
Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent.
1 Aug 08
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Conversations on a Toronto afternoon
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Len Abelman sets off to meet expats Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg, two South Africans shaping the Toronto cityscape.
1 Aug 08
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Twee tees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real.
1 Aug 08
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All that glitters
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Product Design
Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling.
1 Aug 08
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Fashion tips for superheroes
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition explored comic book characters and fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
19 Jun 08
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On the virtual edge
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Creative Economy
The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK.
2 May 08
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Public art award announced
Design News
Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces.
2 May 08
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Saffers hit Milan
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Product Design
Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair.
2 May 08
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One thing that leads to another thing
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic.
2 May 08
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Robot gets fieldtrip
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Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot.
2 May 08
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Optical delusions
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Music & Sound Design
Cape Town's emo-electro outfit Unit.r have launched their debut album decked out in a full-house design campaign from illustrator Kronk.
2 May 08
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