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Design Indaba launches product range
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Spawned by a passion to create quality design at affordable costs, Design Indaba launches its Free Range at the 2009 Design Indaba Expo.
1 Feb 09
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Head start on 2010 fever
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Michael Souter is adding to the 2010 fever with his “makarabas” (sculpted hard hats) that fuse urban culture, design and sporting passion.
1 Feb 09
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Dead bull
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Designer and Google creative director, Ji Lee’s illustration for Portfolio magazine sums up the economic times.
1 Feb 09
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Winners turn the table
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The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table.
1 Feb 09
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Dog tag for dating
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Information Design
Ever sat at work and wondered what your pooch is up to? Put your idle thoughts to rest with SNIF, developed by Readymade in Pretoria.
1 Feb 09
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Horse saddle redesigned after 200 years
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Industrial Design
Leading design company Seymourpowell's Quantum AMS Saddle brings innovation to a product that has been unchanged for a couple of centuries.
1 Feb 09
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Takemura joins Tokyo Olympic pitch
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Shin-ichi Takemura, known for his Tangible Earth project, has authored the Tokyo 2016 vision in pitching for the greenest games ever.
1 Feb 09
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Red and blue reconcile online
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Ze Frank's From 52 to 48 with Love has a political edge, encouraging Americans to reach across the “Red-Blue divide”.
1 Feb 09
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Top SA industrial design
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Industrial Design
A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008.
1 Feb 09
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Dreaming in kid-colour
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Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design.
1 Feb 09
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Cool beer city
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Heineken have added a new dimension to its marketing by opening a unique, ultramodern concept store designed by Frank Tjepkema.
1 Feb 09
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Bracelets with megabyte
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African Design
Beads leap the technology divide with these innovative USB bracelets by Africa!Ignite that combine fashion with info storage.
1 Feb 09
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The blue house
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Product Design
Constantin and Laurene Boym’s newest miniature celebrates Barack Obama in lieu of the time-honoured tradition of inauguration souvenirs.
1 Feb 09
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Eight ball bling
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls.
1 Feb 09
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Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town
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Creative Economy
South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September.
1 Feb 09
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Streetwires wins entrepreneurial award
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Creative Economy
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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Music & Sound Design
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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Design Thinking
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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Design Thinking
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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Creative Economy
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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