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A South African identity
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Architecture & Interiors
Don Albert reviews the Architecture Indaba.
1 May 05
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Our crown jewels
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Jennifer Fair writes about coming together to create awareness of South African jewellery design at the Jewellery Indaba.
1 May 05
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Notes from the Fashion Indaba
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis.
1 May 05
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Labour of love
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Issay Kitagawa has been in love with print for as long as he can remember, writes Patrick Burgoyne.
1 May 05
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Between the covers with Chip Kidd
Profiling
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Graphic Design & Illustration
There is really only one book jacket designer with a comparable profile: Chip Kidd.
1 May 05
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The photographic cartoonist
Profiling
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Art & Photography
Sean O’Toole chats with the acclaimed photographer and contemporary satirist, Alison Jackson.
1 May 05
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The optimist on the designer optimised
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Urban & Landscape Design
Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design.
1 May 05
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Design is easy
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Product Design
Editor of Clear magazine, Ivana Kalafatic speaks to product and furniture designer Constantin Boym.
1 May 05
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Where black and white melted into brown
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Creative Economy
Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself.
1 May 05
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Digital designers square up for New Media Awards
Opinion
1 May 05
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Sculpting the Land
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Design Thinking
These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific".
1 Feb 05
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Digital designers square up for CNMA
Opinion
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Interaction Design
South Africa's most talented digital designers are vying for the chance to spend a week at London multimedia house Poke.
1 Feb 05
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Zest for Life
Opinion
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Design Thinking
An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London.
1 Feb 05
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A dedication to graphic design: Alexander Gelman interviews Michael Bierut
Q&A
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An energy-filled dedication to graphic design, we have made no changes to the transcript. Be a fly on the wall.
1 Feb 05
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Q&A with Chip Kidd
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Creative Economy
It's become a global standard, and many celebrities and leaders have filled this out this party game.
1 Feb 05
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Fair play
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In Paris recently, Africa Fair presented their Fall/Winter 2005/06 collection.
1 Feb 05
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SA's national treasure
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Now with the new government into its 10th year of democracy, a new mace was unveiled in Parliament recently.
1 Feb 05
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Magic man
Profiling
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect David Adjaye is a poster-boy for a new generation of designer/architects who pluck at the nexus of media and celebrity.
1 Nov 04
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Accidental designer
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Jennifer Fair interviews jewellery designer, style leader and taste maker Solange Azagury-Partridge.
1 Nov 04
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All-round design
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Industrial Design
Christine Moosmann, editor of Novum magazine, interviews world-famous product designer Dieter Rams.
1 Nov 04
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Future perfect
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK), writes about the architectural achievements of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete.
1 Nov 04
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Workshop with Malcom Garret
Inside View
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The question most frequently asked concerned how from my experience, I thought this group of students compared to others in the UK.
1 Nov 04
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Workshop with Ilse Crawford
Opinion
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Interaction Design
Invent, design and present an African feast that is not just visual but engages all the senses. What does Africa feel like?
1 Nov 04
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Workshop with Oscar Pena
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Product Design
In the assignment plus ONE minus ONE, the aim was to change one aspect of an existing product.
1 Nov 04
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