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Inside View
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Art & Photography
Photographer Damien Schumann spent six months documenting the fraught USA-Mexican border cities.
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15 Aug 11
Paradise?
Inside View
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Art & Photography
Today life in Angola might seem bleak, but for the infrastructural development. Yet the people are convinced of the possibilities.
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15 Aug 11
Minus 90%
Opinion
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
Design with the Other 90%: CITIES calls on design to address the most critical issues arising from the impact of mass urbanisation.
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15 Aug 11
Name dropping
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Figures & Fictions is a compelling look at contemporary South African photography.
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5 Aug 11
A place at the end of the world
Reviews
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Photographer Jo Ractliffe explores the dynamic of the war-torn Angolan landscape in a body of work titled As Terras do Fim do Mundo.
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31 May 11
Question mark
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Creative Economy
What is your guiltiest pleasure? Have you had any homosexual experiences? Are you a racist? Do you believe in the death penalty?
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29 May 11
Animation overload
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If you’re a manga or anime fan you’re in for a delight. Or probably rather an emotion more akin to complete indulgence, you get the idea.
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27 May 11
Shoot from the hip
Opinion
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Art & Photography
Can one really out hip a photographer? What happens when one hipster calls three other hipsters "hipster"?
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15 May 11
Painting Obscura
Opinion
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Art & Photography
Critics and scholars read Zander Blom’s art as a contemporary South African revision of Modernism.
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15 May 11
Illustrious
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
After years of experiencing a creative identity crisis, South African illustration is gradually coming into its own.
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15 May 11
Conviction en masse
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Susie Hunt writes about China's emerging class of creative entrepreneurs who are leapfrogging the traditional agency model.
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15 May 11
Blog: The Sustainable City at NY Festival of Ideas
Inside View
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
What does it really entail to ensure a city is sustainable. A mayoral panel discussion at the NY Festival of Ideas considers this question.
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8 May 11
Blog: The Reconfigured City at NY Festival of Ideas
Inside View
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Design Thinking
The Reconfigured City at the New York Festival of Ideas looked to positive ways of adapting cities to the demands of modern life.
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7 May 11
Blog: The Networked City at NY Festival of Ideas
Inside View
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
The Networked City at the New York Festival of Ideas looked to the various technological and social networks that make cities function well.
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7 May 11
Blog: The Heterogenous City at NY Festival of Ideas
Inside View
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Heterogeneous City, a panel discussion at the New York Festival of Ideas, looks to a dynamic equilibrium for the urban environment.
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6 May 11
Font forward
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Creative Characters is a behind-the-scenes look into the motives and methods of some of the world’s leading type designers.
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17 Apr 11
The art of ideas
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Craft
The debates and ideas that capture Hylton Nel's imagination all manifest in his work in some way.
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29 Mar 11
The ABC of South Africa
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Creative Economy
A is for Aids, B is for Black and C is for Complaining in Anton Kannemeyer’s new collection of work.
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21 Mar 11
Behind the scenes
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Creative Economy
There’s something both mysterious and inviting about a coffee table book that has the phrase “You should have been with me”.
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15 Feb 11
Artistic stance
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Creative Economy
Positions is a book that looks at the role of contemporary artists in modern-day South Africa.
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12 Feb 11
Famous food
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Food Design
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Creative Economy
Reinventing Food tells the story of Ferran Adrià's rise from dishwasher to world-famous gastronomic maestro.
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9 Feb 11
The wonder of it all
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Eclectic, beautiful and oh-so desirable, "I Wonder" by Marian Bantjes is sure to become an instant classic.
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3 Jan 11
Puppets that breathe
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Creative Economy
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Interaction Design
Adrian Kohler, Basil Jones and others reflect on their craft in the Handspring Puppet Company book edited by Jane Taylor.
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15 Dec 10
No idle racism
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Anton Kannemeyer's new Bitterkomix collection Pappa in Afrika deals with the controversial and uncomfortable topic of racism.
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10 Dec 10
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