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Sex is the new yellow
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1 May 10
According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback.
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Oh so hip Bone
Design News
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2 May 10
Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that...
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Double the fun
Design News
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2 May 10
The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series.
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Metallic masterpiece
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2 May 10
The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia.
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Fun in four seconds
Design News
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2 May 10
Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design.
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Delicious second skin
Design News
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2 May 10
What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams.
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A rubber history
Design News
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2 May 10
While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it.
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Queering Anne
Design News
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2 May 10
If Queen Anne of England was alive today there’s a good chance she’d have plenty to say about Ernst van der Val’s ball&claw series.
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Sensual beginnings
Design News
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2 May 10
Tracey-Lee Scully's Auto-Erotic Photo-Romantic project was inspired by her travels to Berlin and the Photoautomat machines in the city.
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A little koekie time
Design News
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2 May 10
Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book.
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Beneath the surface
Design News
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2 May 10
There’s something that makes you double take when you look at a piece of Stuart Bird’s work. At first you simply see it for the artwork...
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Changing the inappropriate
Design News
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2 May 10
“Pussy, Ass & Dick.” To most people these words are inappropriate and vulgar, their use impermissible in society. Arik Levy challenges that.
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Many ways to love
Design News
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2 May 10
Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition.
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African Bondage
Design News
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2 May 10
Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.
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Blame it on the bunny
Design News
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2 May 10
Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful.
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Biologically creative
Design News
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2 May 10
Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems.
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Milk anyone?
Design News
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2 May 10
The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje.
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A little less conversation
Design News
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3 May 10
The Blackheart Gang’s latest installation, The Dinner Party, is a Dadaist installation about nothing whatsoever.
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New Ubuntu Award at The Loeries
Design News
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3 May 10
The Ubuntu Award is a new category at The Loeries, recognising brands that are making a positive difference.
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Back to the future
Design News
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3 May 10
Photographer David Trautrimas shows his steampunk fictions at the LE Gallery in Toronto, Canada, until 30 May 2010.
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Urban Denmark at Shanghai Expo
Design News
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6 May 10
The Danish Expo Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo takes the best of living in Copenhagen and places it in China for visitors to experience.
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Recycling in the bag
Design News
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6 May 10
Ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town recently launched the "Murderer/Burglar/White Collar Criminal" Clean Conscience campaign for Tuffy.
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It's a mad world
Design News
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7 May 10
The Sifting Through the Madness exhibition is currently showing at Salon91 Contemporary Art Collection in Kloof Street, Cape Town.
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Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo
Design News
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7 May 10
"You ain't see nothing yet" is what you'll be telling people about the Thomas Heatherwick's UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
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