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Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award
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Founder Streetwires, Patrick Schofield has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award in South Africa.
1 Feb 09
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Harsh geometry for plants
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Joe Paine’s continually diversifying range of outdoor products embody an oxymoronic notion of structuralist organics.
1 Feb 09
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All hail Gazelle!
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Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery.
1 Feb 09
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Final year clearance sale
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Celebrating the best in final-year communication design students, the seventh annual Sappi Thinkahead Awards announced their winner.
1 Feb 09
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Woven islands
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Brazilian designers Humberto and Fernando Campana presented the Diamantina installation at Design Miami 2008.
1 Feb 09
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Design cul-cha
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“Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition.
1 Feb 09
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Refashion, remodel, rephotograph
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All about “reduce, reuse, recycle”, the Green-T Project by vida e caffé ticked all of the pop-culture boxes to boot.
1 Feb 09
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Rex shows at the World Bank
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The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington.
1 Feb 09
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Durban’s Bigwood heads for Berlin
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Graphic Design & Illustration
After a successful show in Durban in 2008, the group graphic design and illustration exhibition Bigwood is travelling to artSPACE Berlin.
1 Feb 09
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Frame the family tree
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Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”.
1 Feb 09
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Building bible
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Creative Economy
It was with much anticipation that the updated Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture was received.
1 Feb 09
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Pure not poor
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
“Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa.
1 Feb 09
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SA in graphic prime
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry.
1 Feb 09
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The Interior World of Tom Dixon
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Creative Economy
The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish.
1 Feb 09
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The Art of Romance
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The Art of Romance takes you on a journey through the cheesy history of Mills & Boons and Harlequin book covers.
1 Feb 09
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Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
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Creative Economy
Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts.
1 Feb 09
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Doodle for a Difference
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Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings.
1 Feb 09
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Futures to believe in
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Creative Economy
Dion Chang has put together a series of essays on the way the world will be very soon in The 2009 Flux Trend Review.
1 Feb 09
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Not just an album design pioneer
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Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design.
1 Feb 09
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Citizen of the World
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Music & Sound Design
Internationally celebrated jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça has released his second Moreira Project album, Citizen of the World.
1 Feb 09
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Bellville Rock City
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Music & Sound Design
The CD/DVD box set Bellville Rock City offers a veritable resource of profiles, music videos, tracks and documentary coverage.
1 Feb 09
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The revolution of possibility
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Bruce Mau talks about people connecting across cultures, languages, religions and national boundaries to solve the challenges of the world.
1 Feb 09
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Watt the folk
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Daniel Friedman, whose alter ego is singer-songwriter Deep Fried Man, ventures in search of South African new folk music.
1 Feb 09
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Made in tjina
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Craft
Potter John Bauer is immortalising South Africa’s doily heritage through porcelain and has found happiness in craft.
1 Feb 09
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