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Circle of life
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Design Thinking
A tad depressing but ingenious: The Bios Urn provides a sustainable way of dealing with human remains.
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31 Aug 11
Open book
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Creative Economy
The inaugural Open Book literary festival taking place in Cape Town in September aims to promote a reading culture among local youth.
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31 Aug 11
Hello Helsinki
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Architecture & Interiors
The Helsinki Design Week, happening from 9 to 18 September 2011, considers ways of embedding design into life.
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30 Aug 11
Sticky story
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A crowdsourced stop-motion animation recreates a scene from the film Tron, using duct tape.
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30 Aug 11
Dancing squares
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Product Design
Nendo has added an interesting variety of products and effects to their "Dancing Squares" collection.
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30 Aug 11
Tasty Toffie
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Food Design
The first Toffie Food Festival takes place in Cape Town this weekend. With food tastings, talks, workshops and a good ol' braai, you don't want to miss out.
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29 Aug 11
Splish splash
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Product Design
Bathrooms are often the most uninspired space in a home. Luckily the Bouroullec Brothers are coming to our rescue. Now also in Jozi.
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29 Aug 11
Red green blue
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Italian design duo Carnovsky takes their RGB technique to London with La Selva, exploring the jungle environment.
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26 Aug 11
Basic reality
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Basic Reality explores notions of the “real” as perceived by art students, recent graduates and independent creatives.
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26 Aug 11
Scatter effect
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Product Design
Nendo's Scatter Shelf is a design concept that creates a kaleidoscopic visual effect, almost like being caught in a spider's web.
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26 Aug 11
Game types
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Tabletto stencil-toy is a great way to learn about typography and have a trace of fun along the way.
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26 Aug 11
Private space
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Design Thinking
Softshelter is a flexible and simple paper solution for creating private spaces within shelters in disaster-stricken areas.
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26 Aug 11
Puppet masters
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Interaction Design
Pedro Reyes's Baby Marx installation uses puppets of Che Guevera and Karl Marx to examination socialism versus communism in a humourous way.
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26 Aug 11
Bee friendly
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Design Thinking
The outdoor furniture in the urban garden of the National Theatre in London is specifically designed to be welcome to bees.
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26 Aug 11
Thrive hive
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Industrial Design
Thrive Hive is a natural, well-insulated home for bees.
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25 Aug 11
Going solo
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Nendo's Solo Exhibition in Taiwan plays with different manifestations of black and white.
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25 Aug 11
Pop or not
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Architecture & Interiors
This is Not a Pop-Up in London is a design experiment, giving various designers the chance to make their creative mark.
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25 Aug 11
Big Yellow Rabbit
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Big Yellow Rabbit installation is a fun gesture that encourages people to rethink the purpose of public space.
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24 Aug 11
Screen dance
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Interaction Design
Film and Dance, this weekend, is an event exploring the intersection between dance and film with a screening of Wim Wenders's Pina.
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24 Aug 11
Furniture fair
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Product Design
The Western Cape Furniture Initiative presents an exhibition featuring the work of Haldane Martin, Heath Nash, Liam Mooney, Tsai and more.
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23 Aug 11
War Horse at BASA Awards
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Interaction Design
Topthorn from War Horse will be making a special appearance at the Business Day BASA Awards next week.
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22 Aug 11
Net works
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A large net installation encourages child-like exploration while also hoping to help re-integrate communities.
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22 Aug 11
From the sky
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Product Design
Airline trolleys as covetable storage spaces for your home and office. Yes, take a look!
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19 Aug 11
Camp van
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Urban & Landscape Design
Old camper vans are transformed into funky live/work spaces (complete with surf racks) by Jay Nelson.
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19 Aug 11
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