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Let them eat cake!
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Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and Frederico Duarte have picked up their pens to celebrate Portugal's heritage of cakes.
2 Feb 08
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The green pink party
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Product Design
Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007.
2 Feb 08
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Only you can prevent forest fires
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Design Thinking
Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department.
2 Feb 08
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Winter fashion for cool cats
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008.
2 Feb 08
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Not quite the garden variety
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow.
2 Feb 08
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Hani Rashid and the sun king
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Product Design
The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection.
2 Feb 08
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It's a pot, doll!
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Product Design
Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo.
2 Feb 08
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Carrol Boyes call for entries
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Craft
Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame".
2 Feb 08
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Max normal for kids
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Music & Sound Design
Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys.
2 Feb 08
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Locomotion, manipulation, conversation
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Interaction Design
Father of interaction design, Bill Moggridge talks about creating the technology landscape of the future.
1 Feb 08
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My ekasi, my ekapa
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Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is.
1 Feb 08
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Gugu = pride
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Design Thinking
Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective.
1 Feb 08
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mapDIct
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Graphic Design & Illustration
map n 1 a diagrammatic representation of the Earth’s surface or part of it. 2 what Design Indaba asked four Cape Town creatives to redefine
1 Feb 08
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Don't feed the animators
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Film & Animation
Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo.
1 Feb 08
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Riddimtometry
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Music & Sound Design
Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube.
1 Feb 08
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Meet the hof'
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Art & Photography
Photographer Paul Hofman is the only man to ever burn a Design Indaba masthead and get away with it.
1 Feb 08
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A kick and a wink
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Industrial Design
Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms.
1 Feb 08
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Electric wheels for SA
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Urban & Landscape Design
Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule.
11 Jan 08
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Art container
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Architecture & Interiors
One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition.
15 Nov 07
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Form follows food
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Architecture & Interiors
Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid.
2 Nov 07
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Monument to the now
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Architecture & Interiors
The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world.
2 Nov 07
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Africa Remix for design
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African Design
The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards.
2 Nov 07
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Not out of the woods
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Design Thinking
Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials.
2 Nov 07
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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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Japan’s Kamakura Village pop-up eatery serves traditional fare in icy igloos for one month a year
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