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Lauren Beukes and Joey Hi-Fi: A creative collaboration
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7 Apr 15
If this writer-and-illustrator duo were a character in one of their comics, they’d be a two-bodied monster feeding off the same brain.
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Shubhankar Ray: This is more powerful than advertising
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:26
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9 Apr 15
Why the G-Star RAW global brand director thinks flashy ad campaigns are not always the answer.
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Teresa van Dongen: Nature as a source of energy
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:14
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13 Apr 15
Teresa van Dongen has created a lamp that requires no electrical current. It functions purely from the energy of ocean bacteria.
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Larry Harvey: Artists deserve to make money
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:55
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20 Apr 15
The founder of Burning Man talks about how the annual arts festival has become an alternative market for art.
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Dan Wieden (Part 1): We started by ignoring the rules of advertising
Video Interviews
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22 Apr 15
How a mutual disregard for traditional advertising kickstarted Wieden + Kennedy and Nike’s success.
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Dan Wieden (Part 2): “Just Do It”
Video Interviews
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28 Apr 15
Want fresh ideas? Hire the misfits, says the co-founder of one of the largest independent agencies in the world.
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David Tlale: Business advice from the catwalk
Video Interviews
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18 May 15
South African fashion designer David Tlale talks about how he was thrust into the business side of fashion.
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Deanne Viljoen: Playing with furniture
Video Interviews
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25 May 15
The owner of De Steyl tells us about the furniture design studio's shift to creating modular furniture that invites the user to intertact with it.
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Beyond Entropy Africa: A new kind of common ground in Luanda
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:05
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3 Jun 15
The Angola-based architecture group Beyond Entropy Africa brings radical change to an urban sprawl with a single plant.
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Chu Suwannapha: Tradition is the new black
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:26
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5 Jun 15
The “prince of prints”, Chu Suwannapha, has made reinventing tradition a core part of his new fashion label.
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Thula Sindi: Understanding the dynamics of being an emerging fashion designer
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:02:15
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8 Jun 15
Thula Sindi believes designers have to make themselves indispensible to customers by making truly wearable clothes.
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Inspired Luxe launches online global marketplace
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:06:28
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10 Jun 15
Entrepreneur Denise Bradley-Tyson presents handcrafted luxury curated from a global array of master artists, beginning with those from South Africa.
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The Nest: A DIY approach to storytelling
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:05:08
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12 Jun 15
Kenyan arts collective The Nest makes impressive use of limited resources – from running a radio station out of their bathroom to making an award-winning film.
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Michael Murphy: Training African architects is one of the most important needs of our time
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:06:05
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17 Jun 15
Architecture can help bring about wholesale change in Africa, one building at a time, says the founder of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy.
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Roy Choi: The food truck revolution that spread like wildfire
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:50
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19 Jun 15
The LA food truck kickstarted a global movement thanks to Twitter, says Roy Choi.
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Juliana Rotich: Harnessing Africa’s potential with technology
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:00
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23 Jun 15
Kenyan technologist Juliana Rotich lays out the tangible ways that governments can harness technology’s power to deliver services efficiently.
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Darb 1718: A place of exchange for Egypt’s artists
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:04
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25 Jun 15
Reem Hatem fills us in on Darb 1718, the Cairo centre that is fostering the North African country’s art scene.
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Martijn Engelbregt: Breaking society out of its rut
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:31
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26 Jun 15
Meet the ringmaster of Circus Engelbregt who oversees the delicate act of subverting social norms using design.
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Breaking down social barriers with a game of ping pong
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:08
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30 Jun 15
Danish photojournalist Anders Find’s novel approach to bringing people together in public space.
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Michael Johnson: The future is social branding
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:05:03
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2 Jul 15
The founder of brand identity firm Johnson Banks unpacks the growth of social branding in a competitive corporate world.
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Carla Kreuser: An illustrator goes back to the drawing board
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:02:54
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2 Jul 15
Going back to school was one of the best decisions I’ve made, says Carla Kreuser.
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg: The dream of better
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:03:56
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6 Jul 15
By applying design thinking to emerging technologies Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg imagines a better future for us all.
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Stefano Giovannoni: The heyday of designers working with manufacturers is over
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:11
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7 Jul 15
The Italian industrial designer advises young designers to think like entrepreneurs and work at creating their own signature brand identities.
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Margrethe Odgaard: Design that engages with society
Video Interviews
• Duration: 00:04:32
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10 Jul 15
Textile designer Margrethe Odgaard says success can be measured in how much a design project touches your heart.
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