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A kick and a wink
Opinion
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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.
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1 Feb 08
mapDIct
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Creative Economy
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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
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1 Feb 08
My ekasi, my ekapa
Hot Topic
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is.
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1 Feb 08
Gugu = pride
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective.
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1 Feb 08
Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey
Reviews
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Interaction Design
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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.
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2 Nov 07
The plight of healing plants
Reviews
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Interaction Design
Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.
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2 Nov 07
Tall tale for kids
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards.
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2 Nov 07
Kill the copy cat
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights.
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1 Nov 07
Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
Opinion
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Interaction Design
In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington.
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1 Nov 07
From the stomach to the heart
Opinion
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Food Design
“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.
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1 Nov 07
Sustainable = humanist
Opinion
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Industrial Design
Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.
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1 Aug 07
A Kyoto treaty for design
Opinion
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Design Thinking
The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.
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1 Aug 07
How many designers does it take to change the light?
Opinion
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Design Thinking
The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.
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1 Aug 07
Waste not want not
Opinion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
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1 Aug 07
Carpet bombing
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.
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1 Aug 07
Fanfest proposal by Grid
Opinion
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Creative Economy
"If the world were to play a match on Mars what colours would we be wearing?" ask Grid in their vision for the 2010 Fanfests.
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1 May 07
Man about town
Inside View
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Music & Sound Design
During his visit to the 2007 Design Indaba, influential "non-musician" Brian Eno showed his 77 Million Paintings installation at Michaelis.
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22 Mar 07
Film noir
Opinion
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The signing of the film co-production treaty between South Africa and the UK should open up new avenues of financial support.
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1 Feb 07
Big bad Bitterkomix
Reviews
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Over the last 10 years or so, Bitterkomix has been consistently challenging and outrageous, undeniably brilliant, and impossible to ignore.
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1 Feb 07
Visions of nature
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Interaction Design
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The first comprehensive survey of the work of the 19th-century biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel has been published by Prestel Publishing.
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1 Feb 07
One small country
Opinion
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Marc Shoul explores the small cycles of daily life against a larger backdrop of shadow, light, unspoken drama and uncertain peace in Israel.
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1 Nov 06
Jacket required
Opinion
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The South African book cover has come a long way, ponders Michelle Matthews of Oshun Books.
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1 Nov 06
Botany bay
Opinion
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Interaction Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
If you thought botanical illustration was dying out as fast as the rare plants it depicts, you may need to adjust your magnifying glass.
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1 Aug 06
Four-part green manifesto
Opinion
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Design Indaba invites Haldane Martin, Heath Nash, Keith Struthers and Kommetjie Environmental Awareness Group to share their manifestos.
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1 Aug 06
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