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Heath Nash on sustainability within design
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Plastic waste + hands + geometry = beautiful objects + employment, a system that Heath Nash has refined using other people's rubbish.
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25 Nov 10
Do it yourself with Design Indaba magazine
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Urban & Landscape Design
Doing it yourself has never been this trendy, and this time it’s supported by the world’s top designers and thought-leaders.
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25 Nov 10
In the bag
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We just love it when things are local (because it's lekker), eco-friendly and street chic, like Give it Bag.
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18 Nov 10
YDS 2011 – now in Jozi too!
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Book now for the 2011 Design Indaba Young Designers Simulcast in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.
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18 Nov 10
Call for revolution at DI2011
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Urban & Landscape Design
Philosopher, entrepreneur, brand expert, poet and revolutionary. Jens Martin Skibsted is also a cutting-edge bicycle designer.
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17 Nov 10
Pots composted
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Compots are a brilliant local innovation to reduce agricultural waste, create jobs and lessen the damage caused by replanting.
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16 Nov 10
Early Bird bookings open for DI2011
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Gear up for the Design Indaba Conference, Young Designers Simulcast and Design Indaba Expo from 23 to 27 February 2011.
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15 Nov 10
Design by the other 90%
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Craft
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The streets of Brazil are full of startling design solutions by ordinary people driven by pure human need.
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1 Nov 10
I can
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Design Thinking
What would happen if school children in India started designing solutions to social problems? Something very significant...
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1 Nov 10
Backyard design
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Design Thinking
Emily Pilloton is enlisting a new generation of design activists through her work as a high school teacher in North Carolina.
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1 Nov 10
Second nature
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Design Thinking
Whatever we need to do to sustain our lives, nature already does, writes Beth Peterson.
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1 Nov 10
Green game farm
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Architecture & Interiors
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Dalton Private Game Reserve in KZN wins top award for sustainable architecture.
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30 Oct 10
Saving our seas
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Product Design
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A brilliant initiative by Electrolux is using plastic debris salvaged from the ocean to create sustainable vacuum cleaners.
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30 Oct 10
Busy bees
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Cross-disciplinary collaborations are nothing new in design, but what about an interspecies collaboration? Meet a trio that made it work.
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28 Oct 10
Open access
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Information Design
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Women on bicycles, armed with a netbook and medical supplies, are helping to improve the lives of many people in rural Bangladesh.
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25 Oct 10
Power of reinvention
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One man's junk is another’s treasure. Add creative flair and you’ve got some masterfully reinvented interior objects.
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22 Oct 10
Camping out
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In 2009 some 43 million people were assigned refugee status. Justin Kim is exploring ways of using design to make their lives bearable.
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20 Oct 10
Pump it up... some more
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Design Thinking
fuseproject's GE Wattstation is now available for residential and private company use.
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19 Oct 10
Just a spoonful
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Architecture & Interiors
It makes the medicine go down in a delightful way but sugar also has an interesting heritage, as explored in a new design installation.
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18 Oct 10
Fuss-free sustainability
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Designers are the catalysts that make a sustainable future possible, it's probably because they take "No kak!".
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17 Oct 10
Green is good
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Design Thinking
Change the world: Design a good green solution.
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16 Oct 10
Freaks of design
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Interaction Design
Freak Show is an exhibition of selected designers that challenge the system and consider strategies for design (dis)engagement.
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11 Oct 10
Whispering walls
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Anne Kyyrö Quinn’s unique designs may qualify as the world’s most beautiful sound-proof wall panels.
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9 Oct 10
Be the difference
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Making a Difference Through Design competition teaches high school learners about the value of design in our everyday lives.
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8 Oct 10
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