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Design votes out Mugabe
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg.
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1 Aug 08
Sunflower power
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Design Thinking
Toshiyuki Kita's Sunplant features eight solar panel leaves that recharge 48 AA batteries and use LEDs to create a decorative garden piece.
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1 Aug 08
Puff and pass
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Creative Economy
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Music & Sound Design
The Pan African Space Station was four-day music collaboration in Cape Town, curated by Ntone Edjabe and Neo Muyanga, from October 1 to 4.
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1 Aug 08
Orchestrating chaos
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Product Design
Since Burning Man 2006, wooden clouds have started creeping across the world's cityscapes like rising damp.
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1 Aug 08
The house that Pancho built
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Architecture & Interiors
Iziko National Gallery shows legendary Mozambican architect Pancho Guedes' first retrospective on the African continent.
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1 Aug 08
On the virtual edge
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Creative Economy
The digital revolution is about intelligent tradeoffs, according to Rory Sutherland, vice chairman of Ogilvy UK.
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2 May 08
Public art award announced
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Kevin Brand, artist and educator from Cape Town, scooped the Mercedes-Benz South Africa 2008 Art Award for an Art Project in Public Spaces.
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2 May 08
Saffers hit Milan
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Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair.
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2 May 08
One thing that leads to another thing
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Things is a new cartoon strip by Spike Kunene and Khaya Dlanga, copywriters at Metropolitan Republic.
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2 May 08
Robot gets fieldtrip
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Chris Saunders and Murray Turpin have collaborated to create a virtual robot.
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2 May 08
Blossoming furniture
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Product Design
Klein Dytham Architecture designed, developed and produced this outdoor cherry blossom party furniture.
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2 May 08
Coley Porter Bell launches in SA
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Creative Economy
International branding and design company Coley Porter Bell has partnered with Ogilvy SA to launch locally.
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2 May 08
Sea change
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Product Design
Heath Nash's Anemone light for Artecnica was launched at this year's Milan Furniture Fair.
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2 May 08
Nothing is lost
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Interaction Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece.
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2 May 08
Ziggy prop
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Product Design
Ryan Frank's ZiG is a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo.
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2 May 08
Animation challenges the imagination ceiling
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Roger Smythe, managing director of multiple-award-winning animation studio Masters & Savant, talks about the possibilities of animation.
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2 May 08
2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As part of the University of Pretoria's centenary celebrations, more than 2 000 designs by alumni will be exhibited.
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2 May 08
Designer hideaway at art fair
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Architecture & Interiors
Billed as the world's first contemporary African art fair, the Jo'burg Art Fair 2008 welcomed 6 500 visitors through its doors.
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2 May 08
Indie Undies
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
With six years of success as local lingerie label Ruby, Robyn Lidsky has joined forces with David Gimpel to launch Men United.
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2 May 08
Watching glass grow
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Product Design
Ilse Doyer of Glamosa Glass and glass artist Martli Jansen van Rensburg have joined forces to explore and innovate on glass work.
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2 May 08
Paper architect under the hammer
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Architecture & Interiors
Japanese starchitect Shigeru Ban's Paper Tea House reached £31 700 at a Phillips de Pury and Company auction.
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2 May 08
MoMa acquires local design zines
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A selection of BitterKomix and BitterJusi issues have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection.
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2 May 08
A body of plants
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion design team duo Strangelove, Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, collaborated with Leora Farber on Dis-Location/Re-Location.
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2 May 08
Remade plastic trees
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Product Design
South Africa's second Open Lab was held recently at the Design Quarter in Johannesburg.
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2 May 08
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