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Cardboard shelter
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An origami-inspired corrugated cardboard shelter is a great temporary solution for the urban homeless and victims of disaster.
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8 Oct 10
Ponds for ecosystems
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Domestic Ponds explores the benefits of ecosystems and looks at creative ways of bringing them into the home.
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7 Oct 10
Gun free, tree rich
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A design campaign in Mexico called for the voluntary donation of weapons, and turned them into useful shovels with which to plant trees.
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7 Oct 10
Containing hope
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Tsai Design Studio's repurposed freight containers are bringing joy to poor communities in the Western Cape.
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7 Oct 10
Built from beer (crates)
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Architecture & Interiors
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Architects SHSH used beer crates for a temporary pavilion celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1958 Universal World Exhibition.
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6 Oct 10
Friends with business benefits
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Craft
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Creative Economy
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A new non-profit initiative is empowering local craft and design businesses for commercial success by teaching them valuable skills.
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5 Oct 10
Free sneakers!
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Music & Sound Design
Get a free pair of really funky sneakers when you purchase your cassette tape copy of Animal Collective's unreleased songs. Now!
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5 Oct 10
Haldane Martin now in Jozi
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Architecture & Interiors
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Brace yourselves Joburg design lovers. Haldane Martin has opened a showroom in Parktown North.
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5 Oct 10
Swimming success
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Product Design
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Information Design
A whale design out of Cape Town’s FabLab has wooed the crowds and impressed the judges at an international FabLab conference in Amsterdam.
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4 Oct 10
Pick up the phone!
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Product Design
The Punkt DP 01 is a funky new phone design by Jasper Morrison for a Swiss consumer electronics band.
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3 Oct 10
Hail to Heatherwick
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Architecture & Interiors
Thomas Heatherwick is the latest recipient of the coveted London Design Medal.
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3 Oct 10
Now and forever
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Victorian lady or South African house maid? Mary Sibande's mixing of the two results is powerful social commentary.
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2 Oct 10
Needle & thread
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Simple yet effective. Pentagram designed the identity for the new Fashion Law Institute.
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2 Oct 10
Music makeover
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
The Frits Philips Concert Hall in Eindhoven has undergone a transformation: Introducing the music centre of the future!
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1 Oct 10
Welcome to Residence 2.0
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Residence 2.0 might be the most energy-efficient home ever. It's setting the pace for green homes, and its rather beautiful.
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1 Oct 10
Well balanced
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Architecture & Interiors
The "Balancing Barn" sounds like a playroom for children, and is colourful too, but its allowing Joe Soap to enjoy top-notch architecture.
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1 Oct 10
Enabling communication
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Architecture & Interiors
UNStudio's Youturn Pavilion is part artwork, part architecture and part installation that encourages diverse forms of communication.
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30 Sep 10
Watershed photography
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Araminta de Clermont's exhibition, A New Beginning, explores the outer transition newly initiated young men go through.
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30 Sep 10
Kitchen cool
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Information Design
The new AlessiTab designed by Stefano Giovannoni is the ideal interactive, multimedia device for domestic spaces.
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29 Sep 10
Ark-inspired art
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The biblical story of Noah's Ark is the metaphoric reference for the Ark Exhibition featuring Justin Southey, Paul Senyol and Bruce Mackay.
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28 Sep 10
Blown away
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Design Thinking
Renewable energy solutions are a key concern for designers across the world. See the world's largest offshore wind farm in the UK.
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28 Sep 10
What happens next
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Further Instructions, a critical design show by Revital Cohen and Tuur van Balen, explored the complexity of multiple urban narratives.
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27 Sep 10
Graphic recognition
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The 2010 Art of Design Awards delivered an original and inspiring selection of creative work - a slap on back for the local industry.
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27 Sep 10
The other side of Africa
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Architecture & Interiors
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African Design
Africa, through the eyes of architect David Adjaye, presents some interesting insights into the continent’s built environment.
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27 Sep 10
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