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Legends of Echo
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Information Design
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The Grid, Vodacom’s Social Mobile Network, recently launched South Africa’s first location-based, multi-player online mobile game.
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12 Jun 10
Shower power
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
The Delta Outdoor Shower is French designer, Inga Sempé’s latest creation.
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12 Jun 10
Fiction or football
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Flags, vuvuzelas and bright clothing everywhere. It's hard not to be infected by footie fever. Am I Collective's posters add to the joy.
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10 Jun 10
One man band
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Obie Oberholzer's latest exhibition is a notable and interesting departure from his typically quirky portraits.
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9 Jun 10
Milestones and goalposts
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In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives.
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8 Jun 10
Fashionable football fever
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories.
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7 Jun 10
Young and grey
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Product Design
Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame.
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7 Jun 10
Writing on trees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art?
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7 Jun 10
Magnetic trailer park attraction
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley.
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4 Jun 10
No tick, no tock
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Product Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic.
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3 Jun 10
The final countdown
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster.
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3 Jun 10
Li Edelkoort presents a future past
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
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Architecture & Interiors
A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future.
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2 Jun 10
Modular graphics
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook.
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2 Jun 10
Switched on competition
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time.
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2 Jun 10
Leather satchels and literacy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion.
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2 Jun 10
Egyptian creativity on the design map
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design.
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2 Jun 10
Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment
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Product Design
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Creative Economy
Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson.
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1 Jun 10
Three little pigs
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Product Design
Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter.
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1 Jun 10
Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit.
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31 May 10
Versatile Velcro
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Product Design
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Craft
Velcro has been used in everything from heart surgery to nuclear power plants and disposable nappies. Rachel O’Neill brings it to design.
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31 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Springleap.com
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If a T-shirt is the staple garment in everyone’s wardrobe, then it makes sense for designers to use it as a platform for expression.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Tyred Furniture
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Product Design
Using tyres as chairs seems like something you would do in the heart of the bush, around a fire. Tyred is a very different idea.
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: Michelle Ludik
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Step into a department store to buy clothes and you’re confronted with every possible style of design, yet never quite the style...
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30 May 10
Exhibitor success story: BOUSQUET Creations
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Combine design, beauty, a lot of waste material and a fresh look at the old, and you get innovation that brings a smile to your face.
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30 May 10
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