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Rich Mnisi merges film with fashion
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Check out this cinematic lookbook for Rich Mnisi's latest trans-seaonal collection Xingelengele.
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18 May 17
Marianne Fassler’s latest lookbook is #FASSLERFABULOUS
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Check out the newest editorial from the South African fashion label.
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5 May 17
New collection by South African designer Rich Mnisi
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
R by RICH MNISI: We share the latest lookbook from emerging South African designer Rich Mnisi. SS17 is a new collaboration with local celebrity Maps Maponyane.
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14 Sep 16
Venture into “The Middle of Nowhere” with illustrator Kirsten Sims
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African Design
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Kirsten Sims’s first solo exhibition takes us to a place where fantasy and imagination are essential ingredients of life.
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24 Jun 15
12 standout buildings from the 2015 World Architecture Festival Award finalists
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
700 entries from architects and designers across the world were narrowed down to make the World Architecture Festival shortlist.
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23 Jun 15
India Harris translates photography into textiles
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The textures and colours of film photography are the inspiration behind this University of Brighton graduate’s collection.
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22 Jun 15
#DITakeover on Instagram: Jonx Pillemer
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Design Activism
Cape Town photographer Jonx Pillemer gives us a masterclass on composition, framing, reportage and empathy (with a little help from Susan Sontag).
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22 Jun 15
#DITakeover on Instagram: How Far From Home
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African Design
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Design Thinking
Chanel Cartell and Stevo Dirnberger took us with them on their creative sabbatical in a series of wanderlust-inspired photos.
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15 Jun 15
Carpenters Workshop Gallery at Design Miami/Basel 2015
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Architecture & Interiors
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Art & Photography
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Product Design
Sculpture looms large as Carpenters Workshop Gallery showcases both never-before-seen and iconic pieces at Design Miami/Basel.
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10 Jun 15
Swahili proverbs for the 21st century
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African Design
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Design Thinking
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Film & Animation
Nairobi-based artist Musa Omusi is bringing the truisms, witty observations and sayings of the Kenyan people to life.
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9 Jun 15
Photographs capture women’s struggles to leave behind sex work
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African Design
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Art & Photography
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Design Activism
Alexandra Dietz has shot a series of 20 images that will change the way you see prostitution.
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8 Jun 15
8 illustrators on #NoToXenophobia
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Local illustrators respond to our call for poster designs speaking out against the xenophobic attacks visited on foreign Africans this past week.
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20 Apr 15
A loft conversion in Brussels
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Architecture & Interiors
SHSH Architecture + Scenography converts a former warehouse in Brussels into a contemporary loft that adapts to its inhabitants.
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1 Apr 15
Where craft and art meet
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Craft
Elbé Coetsee's new book, "Craft Art in South Africa", is a beautifully illustrated journey through the tactile possibilities of handmade work.
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23 Mar 15
Quote unquote
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspiring lines and thought-provoking ideas heard this week on the Design Indaba Conference stage.
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27 Feb 15
Day two in pictures and quotes
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Design Thinking
Brand gurus, Senegalese collaborators, the godfather of food trucks and the matriarch of Italian design was the order of this day at Design Indaba.
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26 Feb 15
Twenty years of jamming with design
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Product Design
The first all-encompassing retrospective show of the work of Austrian design studio EOOS is on at the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK) in Vienna.
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31 Jan 15
What artworks see
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Art & Photography
Masashi Kawamura’s new photo project reverses the relationship between artwork and viewer.
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24 Jan 15
Tastes like the Voortrekker Monument
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Craft
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As an ode to their hometown, a group of designers recreates the city of Pretoria in icing sugar, nougat, coconut and biscuits.
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28 Oct 14
On their knees
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Craft
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We Make Carpets, a trio of Dutch artists, recreates 50 of their 'temporary' carpets out of everyday objects for Dutch Design Week 2014.
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22 Oct 14
Lattice work
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African Design
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Cape Town-based Leg Studios launches a range of decor products inspired by nomadic African patterns.
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25 Sep 14
Bag it
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African Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Product Design
The cheap "China bag" has become a symbol of migration in Africa – and a popular material for artists and designers to reimagine.
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23 Sep 14
Lookbook: Open Field
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Urban & Landscape Design
The wild natural gardens of Piet Oudolf belie the masterful hand that conceived them. A new exhibition of his sketches reveals his creative process.
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10 Aug 14
Lookbook: What's Your Type?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An exhibition of alphabet prints by David Kindersley harks back to the pre-digital days of typographic design.
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4 Aug 14
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