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Colour Pop
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21 Jan 22
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An Olimpia Zagnoli retrospective, held in her home town, pays homage to her witty creations
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Make it snappy
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21 Jan 22
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Exploring how the built environment might respond to the harsh conditions of climate change.
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Glass Act
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14 Jan 22
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Artist Kit Paulson has a heart of glass
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Block party
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14 Jan 22
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iheartblob’s Fungible/Non-fungible Pavilion paves the way for us to all become architects
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Cakes and oil
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14 Jan 22
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Four students from The Design Village in India have found a sustainable solution to packaging edible oil
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Woodkid
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14 Jan 22
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Driving a car powered by discarded wood, across forgotten parts of Germany, is performance art with a difference.
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Cool runnings
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10 Jan 22
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A simple chemical reaction powers new cooling tech that keeps things cold without electricity.
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Celebrating the Arch
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10 Jan 22
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Few South Africans have left as profound a legacy as Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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The house that LEGO built
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10 Jan 22
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Room Copenhagen launches a playful, sustainable homeware line for grown-ups
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Holding sway
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10 Jan 22
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Parametric design turns an urban office block into an object of wonder
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Rain on me
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30 Dec 21
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Tactus Design Workshop’s self-sustainable home of the future
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In the raw
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30 Dec 21
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Introducing the award-winning zero-waste Ermis chair
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Exploring interspecies art
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30 Dec 21
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Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg has developed an algorithm that caters for pollinator preferences
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From kelp to catwalk
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30 Dec 21
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Commercial-scale seaweed-based yarn can transform fashion
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Curiosity thrilled the cat
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17 Dec 21
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Meet the purrrr-fect bionic spy robot for cat lovers
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100 Beautiful Baskets
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17 Dec 21
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A curated exhibition that celebrates African weavers
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Tackling sanitation taboos with panache
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17 Dec 21
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Jasmine Burton’s creative approach to WASH challenges can change the world for billions.
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Dazzling with design
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17 Dec 21
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How Yinka Ilori’s technicolour storytelling is taking over the world
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African storytelling comes of age in CODA
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14 Dec 21
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The urban documentary delves into how we mark the passing of time
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Out of this world
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13 Dec 21
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Ghanaian artist Steloo channels Zambian ‘Afronaut’
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The seeds and the sower
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13 Dec 21
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Art and design fuse effortlessly in Jan Ernst’s first solo exhibition in France
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Morag Myerscough’s #CleanPower installation brightened up COP26
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13 Dec 21
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We chat to the designer about her recycled ocean plastic flags
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Vigil for Virgil
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8 Dec 21
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We pay tribute to creative polymath and trailblazer Virgil Abloh
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Cannabis-inspired book redefines the stoner aesthetic
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7 Dec 21
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This homage to pot will amuse and delight anyone interested in this unique sub-culture.
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A march through time
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London design studio and Design Indaba alumnus NB Studio created stamps celebrating 50 years since the first Pride march in London
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Rhythm and hues
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1 Aug 22
Tobias Bolliger of Studio Bollo turns typefaces into distorted patterns that resemble rhythmic beats
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Building sustainability
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1 Aug 22
Coburg University Master’s students designed a tiny house made entirely of renewable materials that adopts cradle-to-cradle principles
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Master of arts
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1 Aug 22
Design Indaba Emerging Creative for 2022 Sizani Baloyi already has impressive industry notches in his belt
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