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In pictures: The Tolerance Traveling Poster Show at Design Indaba 2018
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The idea behind the nomadic exhibition is to spread a simple message of humanity and reach the maximum amount of people.
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5 Mar 18
Street art and energy inform Kronk’s Zakifo redesign
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The Zakifo Musik Festival comes to Durban, South Africa with a look inspired by culture, street art and energy.
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24 May 16
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
Blood as ink
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Pentagram partner Harry Pearce uses his own blood for a poster design that questions the self-destructiveness of the human species.
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24 Mar 15
AGI Open 2014 in review
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Designers share key strategies for keeping their ideas fresh among the clutter of today's visual culture. Jorge Grimberg reports from São Paulo.
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22 Aug 14
Lookbook: Anthon Beeke's KunstRAI Posters
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Interaction Design
We look back at the Dutch graphic designer's iconic posters for KunstRAI, the Dutch art fair, to see just how creative a portrait can be.
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11 Jun 14
Experimental Jetset portfolio
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba Conference 2014 speakers, Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio. Here's a quick snapshot of some of their work.
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15 Jan 14
Mokoena Kobeli
Mokoena Kobeli is a digital designer and was part of the 2014 Emerging Creatives programme.
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14 Jan 14
Inside out
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Pentagram's Paula Scher and Eddie Opara have designed striking posters that reveal their personal impressions of San Francisco.
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2 Nov 13
Poster celebration
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Paula Scher has designed a striking poster in celebration of the National Theatre's 50th anniversary.
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28 Oct 13
Paula Scher on creativity as a small defiant act of misbehaving
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Graphic Design & Illustration
"Small breakthroughs and how they came to be" was the theme for Paula Scher’s presentation at Design Indaba Conference 2013.
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10 Oct 13
Posters in the park
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Paula Scher has designed her 19th season campaign for Shakespeare in the Park.
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7 Jul 13
Design Indaba 2014 Poster Design Competition
Design Indaba invites all South African students to take a shot at designing an event poster for Design Indaba 2014.
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10 May 13
Tommy Li at AGI Open 2012
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Tommy Li believes that in order to do a rebrand, it is essential to think in different ways.
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11 Oct 12
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Brand Collaboration
A spoonful of sugar
Profiling
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Fiona Zerbst chats to Marian Bantjes about typography, image making and creative restlessness.
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1 Feb 09
City of type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography.
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1 Nov 08
Blurring the brief
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Interaction Design
Iconic theatre impresario and iconoclastic designer, Pluto Panoussis presents a retrospective spanning 10 years of his theatre posters.
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1 May 06
Shooting from the lip
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Graphic Design & Illustration
James Victore is an independent graphic designer whose posters hang in many permanent collections around the world.
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1 May 02
Drawing blanks
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Go to any city in South Africa and take a look at what's hanging on the lampposts. Not much, really.
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1 May 02
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