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Not out of the woods
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Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials.
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2 Nov 07
1 000 lights make green work
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Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights.
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2 Nov 07
The public secret of avatars
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Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.
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2 Nov 07
Five-day wooden house
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Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build.
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2 Nov 07
Hillbrow, London
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The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.
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2 Nov 07
MCQP is FAB
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What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering.
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2 Nov 07
Tsai times two
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Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.
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2 Nov 07
‘You can’t bomb an idea’
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...
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2 Nov 07
Crafting a difference
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
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2 Nov 07
Kill the copy cat
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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
New old solutions
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Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
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1 Aug 07
10 Houses = 10 Families
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Urban & Landscape Design
Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector
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1 Aug 07
Carpet bombing
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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
Buying green back
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Design Thinking
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
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1 Aug 07
A Kyoto treaty for design
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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
Flotsam and jetsam
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Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
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1 Aug 07
How many designers does it take to change the light?
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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
Design Indaba 10… Ideas
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Not accepting the status quo was a recurring theme at the tenth Design Indaba in Cape Town this year.
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1 May 07
Woolworths: Driving design into the future
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Design Thinking
Among the many faces at Design Indaba there's one that virtually every delegate will recognise at a glance.
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23 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Flowerball
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An official commercial for Design Indaba 2007, based on Heath Nash's Flowerball light.
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20 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Kreepy Krauly
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The official commercial for Design Indaba 2007. The commercial showcases the kreepy krauly, a South African invention by Ferdinand Chauvier.
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19 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007 Commercial: Hippo Roller
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Design Thinking
The official commercial for the Design Indaba 2007, featuring the hippo roller - an invention designed by Johan Jonker and Pettie Petzer.
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19 Feb 07
Design Indaba 2007
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Design Thinking
The 2007 Design Indaba Expo's 20 755 visitors and the Conference's 2664 delegates, made it the most successful at the time.
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19 Feb 07
Shop talk
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The Design Indaba will, for the first time, offer three exciting talkshops on Friday 23 February 2007.
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1 Feb 07
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