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X-rated peace and diversity
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1 Nov 08
A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists.
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The art of fashion
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1 Nov 08
Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate.
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SA fashion hits the silver screen
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1 Nov 08
South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa.
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Bird on a wire
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1 Nov 08
Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration.
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Nampak packaging design challenge
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1 Nov 08
Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge
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Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
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1 Nov 08
Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona.
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Cops coin it on Sagmeister
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1 Nov 08
Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September.
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Music fun in a packet
Design News
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1 Nov 08
MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK.
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Shrinking the art world
Design News
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1 Nov 08
The 2008 Absa l’Atelier prize awarded to James Webb for Auto Hagiography, engages with Webb’s interest in the psychological impact of sound.
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Draw and draw again
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1 Nov 08
The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg.
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Travelling on trains with kids
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1 Nov 08
Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons.
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$100 000 prize for Design Indaba 10x10
Design News
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1 Nov 08
MMA Architects won the Curry Stone Design Prize for their ingenious solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 low-cost housing challenge.
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Cattle heads ceramics competition
Design News
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1 Nov 08
This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth.
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Head honcho
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1 Nov 08
South African-born milliner Albertus Quartus Swanepoel is poised for success.
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Meta/physical
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1 Nov 08
Belgian choreographer Frederic Flamand and Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana give life to Ovid's Metamorphosis poems.
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Design Indaba film to air
Design News
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1 Nov 08
United States filmmaker Rob Nilsson’s feature film Frank Dead Souls debuted at the Mill Valley Film Festival in October.
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Designer rubbish
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1 Nov 08
Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town.
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Tees for trees
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1 Nov 08
Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation.
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Witty wallpaper
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1 Nov 08
Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness.
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Springleap vs Threadless
Design News
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1 Nov 08
Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless.
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Exquisite scales
Design News
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1 Nov 08
Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design.
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Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
Design News
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1 Nov 08
The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments.
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Paula Scher does China
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1 Nov 08
Renowned graphic designer and artist Paula Scher has released a new print of China in her Map series.
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Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
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1 Nov 08
Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design.
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