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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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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1+1 makes 3
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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The Design Indaba changes more than the lightbulb
Digital News
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17 Sep 07
"Green Living: The Burning Issue" acknowledges the environmental responsibility of designers and trendsetters as the packagers of cool.
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Design Indaba at Index:
Digital News
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16 Sep 07
Ravi Naidoo, founder of Design Indaba, presented at the COPENHAGEN PRELUDE TO INDEX: Aiga Aspen Design Summit from 23 to 25 August 2007.
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Interactive Africa wins gold at Loeries for Design Indaba
Festival News
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3 Aug 07
Interactive Africa clinched 10 Loerie awards at the ceremony held in Margate from July 28 to 29, 2007.
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10 Houses = 10 Families
Design News
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1 Aug 07
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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Gold Loerie for Design Indaba
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Interactive Africa clinched 10 Loerie awards at the ceremony held in Margate from July 28 to 29.
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Flotsam and jetsam
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
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Carpet bombing
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
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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How many designers does it take to change the light?
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
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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Electric avenue
Q&A
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1 Aug 07
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.
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Sustainable = humanist
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.
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Buying green back
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
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Waste not want not
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
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New old solutions
Design News
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1 Aug 07
Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
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A Kyoto treaty for design
Opinion
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1 Aug 07
The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.
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