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Cape Town librarians vote Kaplicky
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Architecture & Interiors
Jan Kaplicky's design for Prague's new national library won the state competition in October last year, causing a political maelstrom.
12 Aug 08
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Princesses have backsides too
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Product Design
Inspired by the princess and pea story, Doshi Levien's Principessa daybed consists of many thin mattress layers.
12 Aug 08
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Edelkoort leaves Eindhoven
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Design Thinking
Li Edelkoort resigned as chairwoman of Design Academy Eindhoven in Holland after 10 years in this role, but will remain affiliated.
12 Aug 08
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The green design race
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Cape Town creative agency the Design Works goes green, encouraging their clients to become more environmentally aware.
12 Aug 08
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Business for fashion students
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Old Mutual Vukani Fashion Awards, aimed at empowering young fashion designers with business mentoring, have announced the 2008 winners.
12 Aug 08
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Hands-on, minds-on, hearts-on student design
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The winners of the South African Bureau of Standards Design Achievers student awards were announced on Youth Day, June 16.
12 Aug 08
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Yves is for the children
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Product Design
Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth.
12 Aug 08
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Pecha Kucha in SA
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South Africa's first Pecha Kucha design open-mic event presented eight local creatives, hosted at the Whatiftheworld Gallery.
12 Aug 08
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Come on, let's twist again!
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Architecture & Interiors
Dubai will be home to the world's first rotating skyscraper, the so-called Dynamic Tower, designed by Italian architect Dr David Fisher.
12 Aug 08
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Brick-and-mortar design shop
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Continuing to expand and diversify, Whatiftheworld have now added a design showroom to their books.
12 Aug 08
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Elaborately cheeky work
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Creative Economy
Jaime Hayon Works offers a thorough exposition of the prolific designer's interdisciplinary approach and extraordinary talent.
1 Aug 08
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Orchestrating chaos
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Product Design
Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp.
1 Aug 08
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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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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
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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
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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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