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Post-er-boy
Design News
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1 Aug 09
Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations.
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Hands-free viral
Lookbook
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1 Aug 09
Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile.
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Immortal be captured
Profiling
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1 Aug 09
Youssef Nabil tells Design Indaba about cinema, sleep, death and living between places.
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Homework
Opinion
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1 Aug 09
Design Indaba asked creatives born on the continent which of their works was most influenced by their place of birth.
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Paint the town with poetry
Design News
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1 Aug 09
Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing.
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But is it “African”?
Opinion
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1 Aug 09
You’d think that, as a designer based in Africa, it would be easy to answer the question “What constitutes African design?”
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Interversion
Design News
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1 Aug 09
Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art.
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The indigenous style
Design News
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1 Aug 09
Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction.
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Cover activist
Profiling
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1 Aug 09
Ghariokwu Lemi’s cover designs continue to spread the Felasophy in Nigeria and the world. “It is forever and a day,” he tells Design Indaba.
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The disgrace of popularity
Design News
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1 Aug 09
Stacy Hardy and François Naudé have rewritten JM Coetzee’s polemical novel through the eyes of a digital globalised culture.
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Mingo Lamberti: Made in China
Design News
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2 Aug 09
Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009.
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Huggable couch
Design News
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3 Aug 09
Fernando and Humberto Campana's cuddly new Cipria couch is a deliberately iconic piece.
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See through function
Design News
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4 Aug 09
RePacked saw architect Rianne Makkink and designer Jurgen Bey design and handcraft 19 pieces using embroidery, woodwork and blue foam.
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Euro chic hotel for Jozi
Design News
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5 Aug 09
Maria Vafiadis of London’s MKV Design has redesigned the first of two Radisson hotels in Johannesburg.
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Drawing on the walls
Design News
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6 Aug 09
Spanish designer Javier Mariscal’s retrospective is currently on show at the Design Museum in London, until November 2009.
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Would you like that with chips?
Design News
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7 Aug 09
Quirky, bold and robust, Chips forms the first major development for Alsop Architects’ masterplan for New Islington in Manchester, UK.
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One chair is enough
Design News
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8 Aug 09
Shigeru Ban’s ingenious new 10-Unit System for Artek can be used to make a chair, table or bench using just one simple L-shaped unit.
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Tribal iconography
Design News
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9 Aug 09
Parisian designer Damien Poulain shows Totem 49 at the Kemistry Gallery in London.
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No dust in this library
Design News
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10 Aug 09
Creative agency YCN have opened their new workspace in London to the public by incorporating a magazine library
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Green objectified
Reviews
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11 Aug 09
Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement.
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Graphic novel goes down the gut
Reviews
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12 Aug 09
In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant.
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An eye on power
Design News
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13 Aug 09
The Wattcher is a design object that displays the total electricity consumption of your home in a beautiful and meaningful way.
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Twiice goes local
Design News
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14 Aug 09
Leading South African distributor of global design products, Twiice International, has launched a local production arm, Designfaktori.
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Siblings bring music to T-shirts
Design News
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15 Aug 09
Combining two youth culture essentials, music and T-shirts, the new Hruki T-shirt range has become an immediate hit.
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