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Metal muscle
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Product Design
Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials.
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2 Nov 07
Porcelain menagerie of memories
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Craft
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Product Design
Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.
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2 Nov 07
Coming out in shells
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Craft
Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
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2 Nov 07
The public secret of avatars
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Design Thinking
Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.
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2 Nov 07
Five-day wooden house
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Thinking
Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build.
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2 Nov 07
Hillbrow, London
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.
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2 Nov 07
Underground at Woolworths
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Urban & Landscape Design
Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.
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2 Nov 07
The bobo movement
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.
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2 Nov 07
MCQP is FAB
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering.
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2 Nov 07
Tsai times two
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Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.
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2 Nov 07
Shoe-wow!
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Industrial Design
Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.
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2 Nov 07
‘You can’t bomb an idea’
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...
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2 Nov 07
Crafting a difference
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
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2 Nov 07
New old solutions
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Design Thinking
Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
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1 Aug 07
Gold Loerie for Design Indaba
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Interactive Africa clinched 10 Loerie awards at the ceremony held in Margate from July 28 to 29.
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1 Aug 07
Buying green back
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Design Thinking
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
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1 Aug 07
10 Houses = 10 Families
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Design Indaba’s 10 x 10 Housing Project has challenged 10 architectural teams to provide innovative and dynamic design solutions for the low-cost housing sector
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1 Aug 07
Flotsam and jetsam
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Design Thinking
Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
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1 Aug 07
The brief: Fan your passion 2010
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Creative Economy
South Africa will host one of the world's greatest sporting events in only three years time - the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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1 May 07
Fanfest by King James RSVP
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Creative Economy
King James RSVP proposes that our local taxis and taxi drivers become the hosts and ambassadors to the tourists.
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1 May 07
Fanfest proposal by Enterprise IG
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Creative Economy
Enterprise IG used the layout of a football pitch in creating the venue for the greatest party ever.
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1 May 07
Online innovation
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Interaction Design
Daljit Singh is creative director and founder of Digit, one of the world's longest-established digital agencies.
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1 May 07
Super normal
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Industrial Design
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Jasper Morrison has evolved from semi-industrial mixed components to a fresh appreciation of timeless or "super-normal" classics.
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1 May 07
The Ultimate Guide to Local Design out now
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The Ultimate Guide to Local Design brings together South Africa's best designs and designers who exhibited at the Design Indaba Expo 2007.
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20 Mar 07
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