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Profiling
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1 Nov 07
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.
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Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
Opinion
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1 Nov 07
In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington.
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From the stomach to the heart
Opinion
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1 Nov 07
“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.
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Kill the copy cat
Opinion
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1 Nov 07
Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights.
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Maximum velocity
Q&A
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1 Nov 07
When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique.
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Crafting a difference
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
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Design Indaba 2008: Create a better world
Festival News
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2 Nov 07
Leading creative thinkers will converge at the Design Indaba Conference from Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 2008.
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‘You can’t bomb an idea’
Design News
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2 Nov 07
The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...
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Tall tale for kids
Reviews
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2 Nov 07
Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards.
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Shoe-wow!
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.
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Tsai times two
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.
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MCQP is FAB
Design News
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2 Nov 07
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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The bobo movement
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.
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Waterfall on the digital “now”
Digital News
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2 Nov 07
The Times, in association with Design Indaba and D&AD, hosted two workshops in October with UK's Simon Waterfall.
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Underground at Woolworths
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.
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Hillbrow, London
Design News
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2 Nov 07
The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.
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Five-day wooden house
Design News
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2 Nov 07
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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The public secret of avatars
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.
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Coming out in shells
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
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Porcelain menagerie of memories
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.
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Metal muscle
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials.
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Wire dressed up as lamb
Design News
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2 Nov 07
“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town.
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The plight of healing plants
Reviews
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2 Nov 07
Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.
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1 000 lights make green work
Design News
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2 Nov 07
Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights.
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