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Design Philistines?
Opinion
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Industrial Design
Does South Africa have a design culture? Not really, opines award-winning industrial designer Bernard Smith.
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1 Feb 06
Matali on herself
Design News
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Both valuable and useful, the collectable creations of French product designer Matali Crasset are climbing their way into design history.
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1 Feb 06
Wordplay
Opinion
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Well-known anthropologist and author, Marc Augé writes about why Matali Crasset's work is hard to define in words.
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1 Feb 06
Red hot
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Industrial Design
The first African company to win a coveted Red Dot Design Award proves that South Africa has the potential.
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1 Feb 06
He said, she said
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
Award-winning duo Birsel+Seck also happen to design their lives together.
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1 Nov 05
Cultural nomad
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Information Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
The talents of the Indian-born, Amsterdam-based product designer Satyendra Pakhalé migrate happily from one design oasis to the next.
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1 Nov 05
Take design advantage
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Would you bet money on South Africa getting ahead in the global design game? What is it that really holds the Third World back?
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1 Nov 05
The optimist on the designer optimised
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Urban & Landscape Design
Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design.
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1 May 05
All-round design
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Industrial Design
Christine Moosmann, editor of Novum magazine, interviews world-famous product designer Dieter Rams.
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1 Nov 04
Workshop with Oscar Pena
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Industrial Design
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In the assignment plus ONE minus ONE, the aim was to change one aspect of an existing product.
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1 Nov 04
Love grove
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Sean O'Toole spoke to Ross Lovegrove about his passion for fluid lines - and sculpture.
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1 Feb 04
Hyper designer
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Karim Rashid designs everything – even his own words. Naoto Fukasawa interviews him.
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1 Aug 03
The democratic designer
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Sean O'Toole talks to Stefano Giovannoni about his love of pop culture.
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1 Feb 03
At home in a car
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Industrial Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
There can be few more comfortable places to be than inside a top of the range BMW, writes Patrick Burgoyne.
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1 Feb 03
Bright Ideo
Lookbook
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Industrial Design
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Tokyo-based Naoto Fukasawa is a designer with the innovative design firm IDEO.
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1 Nov 02
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