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Hillbrow, London
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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
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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
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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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MCQP is FAB
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Creative Economy
What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering.
2 Nov 07
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Tsai times two
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Product Design
Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.
2 Nov 07
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Shoe-wow!
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Industrial Design
Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.
2 Nov 07
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Tall tale for kids
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards.
2 Nov 07
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‘You can’t bomb an idea’
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...
2 Nov 07
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Crafting a difference
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
2 Nov 07
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1+1 makes 3
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Product Design
Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.
1 Nov 07
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Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze
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Interaction Design
In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington.
1 Nov 07
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From the stomach to the heart
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Food Design
“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.
1 Nov 07
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Kill the copy cat
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Design Thinking
Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights.
1 Nov 07
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Maximum velocity
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Product Design
When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique.
1 Nov 07
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Brian Eno on the purpose of art
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Music & Sound Design
Celebrated artist and producer Brian Eno shares some of his theories on a range of topics, including evolution and art, at Design Indaba Conference 2007.
10 Sep 07
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A Kyoto treaty for design
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Design Thinking
The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.
1 Aug 07
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New old solutions
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Design Thinking
Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
1 Aug 07
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Waste not want not
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
1 Aug 07
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Buying green back
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Design Thinking
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
1 Aug 07
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Sustainable = humanist
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Industrial Design
Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.
1 Aug 07
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Electric avenue
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Urban & Landscape Design
To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.
1 Aug 07
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How many designers does it take to change the light?
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Design Thinking
The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.
1 Aug 07
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Carpet bombing
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Design Thinking
Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.
1 Aug 07
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Flotsam and jetsam
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Design Thinking
Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
1 Aug 07
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