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Many ways to love
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Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition.
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2 May 10
Changing the inappropriate
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Industrial Design
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“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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2 May 10
Beneath the surface
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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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2 May 10
A little koekie time
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Interaction Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book.
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2 May 10
Sensual beginnings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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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2 May 10
Queering Anne
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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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2 May 10
A rubber history
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Architecture & Interiors
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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2 May 10
Delicious second skin
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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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2 May 10
Fun in four seconds
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Industrial Design
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Targeting the claim that applying a condom “kills the vibe”, 4secs:condoms were designed by Roelf Mulder of ...XYZ design.
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2 May 10
Metallic masterpiece
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Product Design
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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2 May 10
Double the fun
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Product Design
The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series.
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2 May 10
Oh so hip Bone
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Product Design
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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2 May 10
Sentient cool
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Art & Photography
Fine artist and commercial photographer Leah Hawker sourced everything in this photoshoot from the 2010 Design Indaba Expo.
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1 May 10
Sex is the new yellow
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback.
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1 May 10
Black to the closet
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Art & Photography
Photographer Zanele Muholi’s exploration of black female bodies has raised more than a couple of eyebrows.
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1 May 10
Support The Bookery!
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Design Thinking
The Bookery sounds like a place that belongs to the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. And it’s working the same kind of magic.
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30 Apr 10
Seeing is believing
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Product Design
Yves Béhar has designed a funky collection of eyeglasses to help Mexican school children See Better to Learn Better.
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30 Apr 10
Matali Crasset in the kitchen
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Product Design
Alessi recently launched their “Essentiel de pâtisserie” collection by Parisian designer Matali Crasset.
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29 Apr 10
Clive Rundle impresses at Paris Fashion Week
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Clive Rundle's "Marie Antoinette returns to Paris after attending a lesbian wedding in Africa" was well received at Paris Fashion Week.
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29 Apr 10
Design an eco-friendly building
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Design Thinking
Sustainability is important in the built environment so here's a chance to show off your eco-friendly building designs.
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29 Apr 10
Welcome to Hotel Yeoville
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Interaction Design
Hotel Yeoville utilises the internet to make people feel at home, wherever they are in the world.
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29 Apr 10
It's about the bike
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Bicycling enthusiasts Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler have started a project that looks at South Africa’s bicycle culture.
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29 Apr 10
1... 2... 3... Cuckoo Clock
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Product Design
Cuckoo clocks are all but fully revived yet. Italian designer Raffaele Darra brings them back with stripes.
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28 Apr 10
Stools are cool
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Product Design
Put the "fun" in "functional" with an original, eco-friendly stool design for the Habari Stool Competition.
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28 Apr 10
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