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Protofarm 2050 in Singapore
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24 Nov 09
“Farming should be viewed as the sustainable cultivation of a renewable resource,” announces Protofarm 2050 at the World Design Congress.
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Design Indaba magazine farms the future
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19 Nov 09
Underpinning this edition is the Protofarm 2050 project, which Design Indaba presented at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore.
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Protofarm 2050
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3 Nov 09
Design Indaba will be presenting Protofarm 2050 at the ICSID World Design Congress in Singapore from 23 to 25 November.
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Emerging Creatives: Earn Your National Design Colours
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2 Nov 09
Young Designers: Kick start your career at Design Indaba Expo 2010!
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Protofarm 2050
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30 Oct 09
Design Indaba invited five designers to look beyond the possibilities and predictions currently in the public domain.
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Design Indaba Magazine goes Afrolectric
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20 Aug 09
"The idea of being African is like trying to be rock'n'roll," says Spoek Mathambo in the newest edition of Design Indaba magazine.
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Design Indaba invites you to Frost in July
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21 Jul 09
Make exceptional ideas come to life with Vince Frost in Cape Town and Johannesburg on Monday 27 July 2009.
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Free Range: Call for submissions
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9 Jul 09
Submit a product concept that could form part of the Free Range and become a Free Ranger.
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Design Indaba magazine gets human, superhuman
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3 Jun 09
In the Q209 edition, everyone’s a superhuman – from the world’s best chef to the idea you tossed in the waste bin yesterday.
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SOUTH award finalists 2009
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9 Apr 09
The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.
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SOUTH legends
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7 Apr 09
The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.
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Deadline extended: Design your own superhero
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31 Mar 09
Design Indaba Conference 2009 delegates are invited to design a superhero for the next edition of Design Indaba magazine.
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SOUTH awards announcement
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27 Mar 09
The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.
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Best of Bowwow winner!
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18 Mar 09
Inhouse Brand Architects's decorated Magis puppy, Caste-Aside, has been judged top dog in the South African leg of the Bowwow Contest.
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The South and MBOISA award winners
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3 Mar 09
The winning entries of the SOUTH and Most Beautiful Object in South Africa awards were announced at the Design Indaba Expo 2009.
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South, the new north
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23 Feb 09
SOUTH is an inversion of hand-me-down Eurocentric creativity. Catch the SOUTH exhibition, award and film at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo.
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The Free Range for Design Indaba
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23 Feb 09
By promoting affordable design, Free Range is set to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.
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Finalists for MBOISA 2009
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20 Feb 09
Design Indaba Expo invites the public to vote for the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa. Here are the finalists.
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Free Range
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15 Feb 09
By promoting affordable design, Free Range is set to open a world of design to a market not normally catered for by professional designers.
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All Stars
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11 Feb 09
The Design Indaba All Stars book celebrates 35 of the most prominent international guests that we have hosted at Design Indaba.
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Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing
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11 Feb 09
The Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Cost Housing Project aims to stimulate alternative solutions to housing.
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Design Indaba magazine crafts the future
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11 Feb 09
The Q109 edition of Design Indaba magazine, “The Cr*ft", celebrates the slow making, culturally sensitive, hand-touched qualities of craft.
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What can your creativity do?
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6 Feb 09
“What can your creativity do?” asks the Design Indaba Conference 2009 with a line-up of more than 30 creative leaders.
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10x10 finalist for Brit Insurance design
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1 Feb 09
What do 5.5’s Clean, IDEO’s Aqueduct Concept Bicycle, Kenya Hara’s Designing Design book and the 10x10 Project all have in common?
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