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Design Indaba Expo 2009
Festival News
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22 May 09
Design Indaba is the foremost showcase of bespoke, high-end South African design.
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Beat this bike!
Design News
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20 May 09
Yves Béhar designs the Mission One Electric Motorcycle, the first electric sports bike that features uncompromised performance.
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Design Indaba 10x10 Housing Project
Do Tank News
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18 May 09
The 10x10 project employs a sandbag-based building method that has irreversibly changed the future possibilities for low-cost housing.
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Design Indaba Conference 2009
Festival News
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18 May 09
The Design Indaba Conference 2009, like its predecessors, was a meeting, networking, and inspiring, of our time's greatest creative minds.
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Design Indaba Expo 2009
Festival News
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18 May 09
A showcase of South Africa's emerging creative talent, which attracted buyers, visitors and media coverage worldwide.
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Chic Afrique
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15 May 09
In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience.
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Koos
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15 May 09
Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released.
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Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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15 May 09
Stefan Sagmeister designs the packaging for the collector's edition of David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative album.
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Big Idea
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15 May 09
Big Idea, by Sandu Cultural Media, is a compilation of winning works from seven international design competitions.
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As We Like It
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15 May 09
As We Like It, published by Arnoldsche, covers the past 20 years of teacher and student work at the Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule.
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Eye of the beholder
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15 May 09
Miss Beautiful is a photographic investigation into South Africa’s pageants by Stan Engelbrecht, with supporting stories by Tamsen de Beer.
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Get green, already!
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15 May 09
Going Green by Simon Gear obliterates all silly excuses for not making simple changes that will benefit you, the planet and your fellows.
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Inside today’s pantry
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15 May 09
crEATe is a timely overview of the state of our world’s pantry, researched and written by the Future Laboratory, published by Gestalaten.
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Can you taste when food is made with love?
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15 May 09
Marije Vogelzang's debut monograph, Eat Love, poses some intriguing questions regarding food an the act of eating.
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Cape craft companies strut their stuff in Germany
Design News
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14 May 09
The Cape Craft and Design Institute took part on the dti stand at Ambiente, the annual German exhibition held in February.
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Reinvent yourself
Design News
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14 May 09
Apply now to have your creativity rebooted by Paul Sahre, James Victore and Jan Wilker in their graphic design workshop from 20 to 25 July.
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Bey goes Brazilian
Design News
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14 May 09
Dutch studio Makkink & Bey reinterpreted five classic pieces by Brazilian design masters.
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Third time lucky for Art Vespa entrant
Design News
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14 May 09
After three attempts in four years, David Newenhuizen of BandC Group scooped first prize in the 2009 Art Vespa design competition.
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The architecture of fashion
Design News
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14 May 09
SOUTH award finalist David West launched his Holbol Collection at Whatiftheworld in Cape Town during March.
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The hole ad
Design News
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14 May 09
For an outdoor campaign for power drill Makita, Saatchi & Saatchi made 20 000 precision drilled holes to create an image of the tool.
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New order textiles
Design News
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14 May 09
In an unusual collaboration, architect David Adjaye and graphic designer Peter Saville redo Kvadrat's showroom in London.
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Clay spandex
Design News
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14 May 09
The 2009 Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Fashion Design went to Jo'burg design duo Black Coffee.
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Intimate scale
Design News
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14 May 09
Philippe Bousquet, Geraldine Fenn and Marchand van Tonder exhibit their contemporary jewellery at the Bell-Roberts Gallery.
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Art funds libraries
Design News
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14 May 09
Cape Town's Jupiter Drawing Room agency generate funds for the South African Mobile Libraries Association.
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