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mapDIct

Hot Topic > Graphic Design & Illustration

map n 1 a diagrammatic representation of the Earth’s surface or part of it. 2 what Design Indaba asked four Cape Town creatives to redefine

1 Feb 08
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Don't feed the animators

Design News > Film & Animation

Lauren Beukes gives the inside scoop on South Africa's maverick animation studio, Clockwork Zoo.

1 Feb 08
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Riddimtometry

Design News > Music & Sound Design

Paul D Miller - aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid - has taken remixing, sampling and turntablism from the streets to the white cube.

1 Feb 08
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Meet the hof'

Q&A > Art & Photography

Photographer Paul Hofman is the only man to ever burn a Design Indaba masthead and get away with it.

1 Feb 08
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A kick and a wink

Opinion > Industrial Design

Toshiyuki Kita has always applied his Japanese heritage to his European designs - and vice versa - to create flexible forms.

1 Feb 08
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Electric wheels for SA

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Optimal Energy unveiled South Africa's first locally produced and designed electric car, a silent six-seater named Joule.

11 Jan 08
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Art container

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition.

15 Nov 07
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Form follows food

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Jaime Hayón has collaborated with chef Paco Roncero to design a new restaurant interior for La Terraza del Casino de Madrid.

2 Nov 07
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Monument to the now

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world.

2 Nov 07
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Africa Remix for design

Design News > African Design

The world’s first major exhibition on cutting-edge African design, New Africa, opened at the 2007 INDEX awards.

2 Nov 07
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Not out of the woods

Design News > Design Thinking

Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials.

2 Nov 07
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Kentridge’s flute: Quite a journey

Reviews > Creative Economy

William Kentridge’s production of The Magic Flute finally premiered in South Africa in September, after an extensive international tour.

2 Nov 07
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Volume control

Design News > Product Design

At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges.

2 Nov 07
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1 000 lights make green work

Design News > Design Thinking

Tom Dixon launched the London Design Festival at Trafalgar Square with an installation of 500 energy-saving lights.

2 Nov 07
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The plight of healing plants

Reviews > Interaction Design

Now available as a collection in his newly published book, Clinton Friedman’s photographic archive is a celebration of life.

2 Nov 07
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Wire dressed up as lamb

Design News > Craft

“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town.

2 Nov 07
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Metal muscle

Design News > Product Design

Comprising seven of his newest works, Ron Arad’s Bodyguards displays the designer’s continued fascination with materials.

2 Nov 07
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Coming out in shells

Design News > Craft

Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.

2 Nov 07
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Porcelain menagerie of memories

Design News > Product Design

Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.

2 Nov 07
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The public secret of avatars

Design News > Design Thinking

Digital Surrogates at David Krut Projects brought together four artists from across the globe who blur the lines.

2 Nov 07
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Five-day wooden house

Design News > Design Thinking

Nicknamed “Ed’s Shed”, the house that UK architect David Adjaye designed for photographer friend Ed Reeve took just five days to build.

2 Nov 07
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Hillbrow, London

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.

2 Nov 07
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Underground at Woolworths

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.

2 Nov 07
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The bobo movement

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.

2 Nov 07

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