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Remade plastic trees
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Product Design
South Africa's second Open Lab was held recently at the Design Quarter in Johannesburg.
2 May 08
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2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As part of the University of Pretoria's centenary celebrations, more than 2 000 designs by alumni will be exhibited.
2 May 08
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A body of plants
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion design team duo Strangelove, Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, collaborated with Leora Farber on Dis-Location/Re-Location.
2 May 08
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Inn harness
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Architecture & Interiors
Ilse Crawford has cast her enchanting touch across the English inn, using country materials such as rush matting, tweed and pewter.
2 May 08
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Paper architect under the hammer
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Architecture & Interiors
Japanese starchitect Shigeru Ban's Paper Tea House reached £31 700 at a Phillips de Pury and Company auction.
2 May 08
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SABS Design Excellence Award scheme
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Product Design
South African product designers are invited to submit entries for the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Awards.
2 May 08
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A bigger personal history
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic designer Jan Erasmus has documented his 25-year career in Intrigue.
2 May 08
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Beads go ape
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Creative Economy
Bead by Bead presents the uplifting story of Monkeybiz, from original lightbulb moment to the beacon of social upliftment it is today.
2 May 08
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Indie Undies
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
With six years of success as local lingerie label Ruby, Robyn Lidsky has joined forces with David Gimpel to launch Men United.
2 May 08
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Along the way
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Disturbance Design's contribution to Cascoland, a multi-disciplinary public art project, which focussed on a walking route through Durban.
2 May 08
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Imagination @ 2.0 gbps
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Design Thinking
Professor Shin-ichi Takemura announces the dawn of a new era of mass media.
1 May 08
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Phantom limbs
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger.
1 May 08
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Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design.
1 May 08
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Seamstory
Profiling
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Amanda Laird Cherry talks about how the fabric of society has changed through her past few collections.
1 May 08
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50 buck design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba invited Durban creatives to show-and-tell us the best design to be bought in Durban for under R50.
1 May 08
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Processed space
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Design Thinking
Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many.
1 May 08
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Redheads, tall tales and shoeboxes
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Durban illustrator and designer Kim Longhurst shares her newest work.
1 May 08
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Reddy steady...
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Architecture & Interiors
Durban architect Ruben Reddy has accelerated into the fast lane of international sporting structures.
1 May 08
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Digital is not the answer
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Design Thinking
During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest.
1 May 08
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Digital dandies
Opinion
Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are...
1 May 08
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2008 Commercial - Platinum
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Design Thinking
An official commercial for the 2008 Design Indaba - a conference and expo looking to redesign our thinking and our reality.
20 Feb 08
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2008 Commercial - Timber
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Design Thinking
The official commercial for the Design Indaba 2008. A Jupiter Drawing Room creation
20 Feb 08
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Designers through the looking glass
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Product Design
French product designer Matali Crasset is just one of the designers who contributed to Domestic's Narcisse collection of artists' mirrors.
2 Feb 08
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Top architecture exhibition in Cape Town
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Architecture & Interiors
The 2007 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture exhibition will be on show in Cape Town until March 30.
2 Feb 08
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