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Spectacle revolution
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Product Design
Self-adjusting glasses may go on to help billions of people in the developing world with poor eyesight.
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29 May 11
Konstantin Grcic at Milan 2011
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Product Design
Konstantin Grcic talks about his design process from prototyping to preferred materials.
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25 May 11
Benjamin Hubert at Milan2011
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
Benjamin Hubert believes that product design should evoke a tactile and emotional response.
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25 May 11
Moon boot
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Product Design
United Nude’s Flat Pack shoe is ideal for a lunar environment, should you want to go and live on the moon.
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25 May 11
Product support
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Information Design
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Design Thinking
The Cape Craft and Design Institute now has a Product Support Space with a range of new machinery.
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25 May 11
Second skin
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Safe sex is made sexy with the Second Skin. Check out urban africa’s condom pouch.
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24 May 11
Natural cuttings
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Craft
Matali Crasset’s Cuttings range of objects is the result of a collaboration with Dutch glass blower Vincent Breed.
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24 May 11
Hidden earphones
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Product Design
Nendo's new Otokurage earphones for Elecom is reminiscent of a jellyfish.
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22 May 11
Made to fit
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Product Design
Vivian Chiu’s Inception Chair comprises 10 chair frames that all fit together to form one, very interesting, seat.
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21 May 11
Diederick Schneemann at Milan2011
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Craft
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Design Thinking
Diederick Schneemann talks about the significance of well designed and crafted objects, working with the Unique-Eco initiative in Kenya.
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19 May 11
Campana Brothers at Milan2011
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
For the Campana Brothers design is about creating and proposing dreams, like they did in ostrich leather with the Klein Karoo company.
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19 May 11
Cups of cocoa
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
fuseproject's Talamanca Cocoa project raises awareness about the positive aspects of organic cocoa farming in Costa Rica.
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19 May 11
Quilted
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Product Design
The honeycomb-like Quilt series of sofas and chairs by the Bouroullec Brothers now comes in a new colourway.
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18 May 11
Mesh-merised
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Product Design
Tom Dixon's Mesh chair aspires to be almost invisible.
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16 May 11
A material world
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Design Thinking
The four young partners of Fibra Design Sustentável are rethinking our material world. Theirs is no small goal, nor easy task.
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15 May 11
Considered design space
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Product Design
The Milan Furniture Fair celebrateed its golden jubilee this year, drawing some 320 000 visitors.
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15 May 11
20Q: Danielle Ehrlich
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
LIV is Danielle Ehrlich's design company. She is passionate about design that is environmentally, culturally and socially sensitive.
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15 May 11
20Q: Thingking
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Product Design
Marc Nicolson and Lyall Sprong of Thingking would like to contribute towards ideas and objects that have a meaningful impact on people.
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15 May 11
Maarten Baas + Christien Meindertsma
Dialogues
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Craft
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Product Design
Maarten Baas and Christien Meindertsma have known each other since their Design Academy Eindhoven student days.
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15 May 11
20Q: Pedersen + Lennard
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Product Design
James Lennard and Luke Pedersen use a combination of handmade and machine-made techniqies to make functional and beautiful designs.
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15 May 11
20Q: John Edwards
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect by day, designer by night. John Edwards is currently working on a new modular furniture range for small spaces.
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15 May 11
20Q: Katie Thompson
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Using discarded junk, each item of Katie Thompson's Recreate range of furniture, lighting and interiors is infused with character.
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15 May 11
20Q: Aram Lello
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Product Design
Italian architect and designer Aram Lello won the Western Cape Furniture Design Competition at the 2011 Design Indaba Expo.
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15 May 11
20Q: Ian Kelynack
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Ian Kelynack of Isle of Trees made his Design Indaba Expo debut this year. His sustainable work won him the Most Creative Stand Award.
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15 May 11
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