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Jens Martin Skibsted: Humanity needs to focus on two things
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Product Design
The Danish designer and creator of Biomega bicycles on his love for t-shirts and why he doesn't do sci-fi.
11 Aug 14
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Soldier Screens by Dokter and Misses and Gone Rural.
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Dokter and Misses collaborates with Gone Rural to create a new partition screen system.
11 Aug 14
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Dakar's new creative wave
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Design Activism
In Senegal’s capital, a collective of creative activists called Les Petites Pierres is taking back the city for the sake of art.
11 Aug 14
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Focus On: Water
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Product Design
The total usable freshwater supply for ecosystems and humans is less than 1% of all freshwater resources. We roundup designs that are water wise.
10 Aug 14
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Lookbook: Open Field
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Urban & Landscape Design
The wild natural gardens of Piet Oudolf belie the masterful hand that conceived them. A new exhibition of his sketches reveals his creative process.
10 Aug 14
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Focus On: Women in design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
We look back at some of the phenomenal women who have graced the stage of Design Indaba Conference and who are making an indelible mark on the world.
9 Aug 14
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African architecture on the global agenda
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Architecture & Interiors
The recent UIA2014 conference in Durban presented an opportunity to discuss the priorities for architects in Africa, writes Sean O'Toole.
9 Aug 14
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Piet Oudolf – Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
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Urban & Landscape Design
Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf takes us on a walk through the seasons and their perennial cycle of bloom and decay.
8 Aug 14
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Next Generation: Jess Gouws
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
This young local jewellery designer tells us about finding beauty in old and discarded objects.
8 Aug 14
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Take Five
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Art and architecture came out tops with readers this week.
8 Aug 14
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"Someway Bi" by M.anifest
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Music & Sound Design
Succumb to the slick verbal gymnastics and hip-turning melody of this track by Ghanaian artist M.anifest.
7 Aug 14
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The Sticky Brick Fingers
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of "The Sticky Brick Fingers", Henrik Vibskov's Spring/Summer 2015 men's collection.
7 Aug 14
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Sister act
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Product Design
We chat to Cape Town-based sisters Astrid and Karen Schwarz about living, working and designing together.
7 Aug 14
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Inhouse Brand Architects: How offices are evolving
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Architecture & Interiors
Google's approach to designing their workspace radically changed the office layout landscape. Inhouse Brand Architects tells us how offices are evolving.
6 Aug 14
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The rebels of architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
A new six-part documentary series tracks architects operating at the fringes of the profession – and even the law.
6 Aug 14
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Ije Nwokorie on the messy business of branding
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Design Thinking
It's more useful to think about branding as a messy creative process than as a pristine product, says Wolff Olins global CEO.
6 Aug 14
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Bamboo engineering
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
Building with bamboo is not new but researchers at MIT are exploring new ways of creating construction products from the sustainable resource.
5 Aug 14
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Life after advertising
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Creative Economy
We interview Ross Chowles about the art of selling products to humans – and why he thinks it's in danger.
5 Aug 14
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Inside View: The agency of the future
Inside View
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Creative Economy
Why the co-founder of The Jupiter Drawing Room believes that job-bags and MDs are a thing of the past.
5 Aug 14
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Stefan van Biljon: Tapping the urban unconscious
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Architecture & Interiors
This young South African architect is intrigued by the untold stories that lie beneath the city's fabric.
4 Aug 14
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Andrew Shoben: City spirit
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Interaction Design
We chat to the playful artist and founder of greyworld, who counts the city as his biggest inspiration.
4 Aug 14
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Lookbook: What's Your Type?
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An exhibition of alphabet prints by David Kindersley harks back to the pre-digital days of typographic design.
4 Aug 14
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Focus on: Architects at UIA 2014
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Architecture & Interiors
Watch these interviews from our archives with four architects speaking at the International Union of Architects World Congress in Durban.
3 Aug 14
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Eclectic interiors
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Product Design
Studio Makkink & Bey combines antiques and contemporary design to transform a 17th-century French hotel into a university research centre.
3 Aug 14
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