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Shubhankar Ray: Brand DNA and unexpected combinations

Video Interviews > Fashion & Jewellery Design

G-Star RAW recently hosted their first RAW Night in Cape Town, South Africa. Design Indaba chats to G-Star global brand director Shubhankar Ray.

16 Jan 14
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Experimental Jetset portfolio

Lookbook > Graphic Design & Illustration

Design Indaba Conference 2014 speakers, Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based graphic design studio. Here's a quick snapshot of some of their work.

15 Jan 14
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Objects in the making

Design News > Product Design

BarberOsgerby has curated Design Museum's "In the Making" exhibition that showcases a variety of objects halfway through their manufacturing process.

15 Jan 14
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Fishing for furniture

Design News > Product Design

Brynjar Sigurðarson uses an Icelandic fishing technique as the inspiration for his "The Silent Village Collection" of furniture.

15 Jan 14
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Woven wares

Design News > Product Design

Dutch product designer and new design director of Danskina, Hella Jongerius shows a new collection of rugs at imm cologne 2014.

14 Jan 14
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Kinetic façade

Design News > Interaction Design

Asif Khan has designed “a Mount Rushmore of the digital age” for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

14 Jan 14
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Madiba memorial mural

Design News > Art & Photography

Cape Town-based street artist Freddy Sam has unveiled a ten-storey tall mural of Madiba in the inner city of Johannesburg.

13 Jan 14
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Contemporary cobbler

Profiling > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Industrial designer Earl Steward explores the possibilities of multi-material 3D printing that allows for footwear to be tailored to the individual.

13 Jan 14
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Calendar accessories

Design News > Product Design

Tom Dixon looks to sustainable design with his Tool the Perpetual Calendar, which is made from stainless steel and can be reused year after year.

12 Jan 14
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Go with the flow

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Nendo takes inspiration from city streets and movement patterns for the design of interiors for the retail spaces of fashion label Theory.

12 Jan 14
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Ghostly apparitions

Design News > Product Design

"Ghost" is Catalonian interior and industrial designer, Martí Guixé's new take on classic Kerman rug design.

11 Jan 14
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Eccentric travelling

Design News > Product Design

Bright, bold and hypnotic... Karim Rashid's "Organik" collection of luggage is sure to make travellers stand out.

11 Jan 14
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Digital art competition

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

International stock photo agency, Fotolia launches an international digital art competition as part of their TEN campaign.

10 Jan 14
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Made by Hand: The Bike Maker

FilmFestFriday > Industrial Design

#Filmfestfridays presents "Made by Hand: The Bike Maker": an inspirational short film documenting the cancer survival of bicycle maker Ezra Caldwell.

10 Jan 14
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Pieter-Jan Pieters on using human movement to compose music

Talks > Music & Sound Design

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Pieter-Jan Pieters makes digital music using his body parts as the instruments.

9 Jan 14
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Architecture in bloom

Design News > Architecture & Interiors

Bjarke Ingels's Watch Flower promenade structure mimics and draws on the natural process of a growing flower.

9 Jan 14
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Cosmic experiences

Design News > Interaction Design

Experiential designer Nelly Ben Hayoun has been appointed as WeTransfer's first Head of Experiences.

8 Jan 14
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Storysmith

Q&A > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Katherine-Mary Pichulik is the creative mind and maker behind Pichulik. Design Indaba chats to her about her journey and telling stories through jewellery.

8 Jan 14
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Pichulik Spring/Summer 2014 Collection

Lookbook > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Pichulik's 2014 Spring/Summer collection celebrates the seaside glamour of the golden age on the French Riviera in the 50s and 60s.

8 Jan 14
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John Maeda on design thinking and creative leadership

Talks > Design Thinking

Artist, graphic designer and educator John Maeda talks about the exchange between design thinking and creative leadership at 2013 Design Indaba Conference.

7 Jan 14
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Marbles of light

Design News > Interaction Design

Daan Roosegaarde's eye-catching MARBLES installation will illuminate the 2014 Route du Nord Light exhibition with bright and bold colours.

6 Jan 14
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Brass vessels

Design News > Product Design

Tom Dixon takes inspiration from traditional vessels used to carry water for his latest collection of authentic brass pendant lamps.

6 Jan 14
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Focus On: A-type personalities

Focus On > Graphic Design & Illustration

Meet four typographers who’s work goes beyond just the art and technique of arranging type to make language visible, to conveying cultural messages of its own.

6 Jan 14
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Vertical garden

Design News > Product Design

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders creates an interior garden of ceramic flowers with his wall cladding design, Frozen Garden, for Bisazza’s 2014 collection.

6 Jan 14

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