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Festive flavours
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Craft
Music, food, design and craft retail, experience it all at Freeworld's Designer-Make Artisan Market. Great place to get your Christmas shopping done.
15 Dec 11
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Strijdom van der Merwe at Design Indabar
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Urban & Landscape Design
Land artist Strijdom van der Merwe shows how creativity can help to draw attention to and facilitate understanding of issues around climate change.
14 Dec 11
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Assaf Biderman at Design Indabar
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Urban & Landscape Design
Networked technology and connectivity is changing the way we move around cities, says Assaf Biderman.
14 Dec 11
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Andrew Makin at Design Indabar
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Design Thinking
Andrew Makin spoke at Design Indabar in Durban about climate change.
14 Dec 11
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Love and mystery
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Mister Handsome is Jason Wishnow's short film about love, imagination and some of the dark sides of human nature.
14 Dec 11
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Intelligent craft
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Interaction Design
Haptic Intelligentia is a system that makes provision for traditional craftsmanship in the age of digital technology and 3D printing.
14 Dec 11
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Sheets of colour
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Product Design
Artist Tyree Callahan's Chromatic Typewriter "types" paintings, with the machine's keys as different colours.
14 Dec 11
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Quirky cauliflower
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Creative Economy
Meet Doris. She's a great-tasting, long-lasting cauliflower. Then also meet her siblings: Doug, Shirl and Bob.
13 Dec 11
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Talking about love
Design News
What we talk about when we talk about love is a group exhibition exploring different notions of love and the relationship we have with ourselves.
13 Dec 11
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Specialised generalist
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With a form follows materials approach, Dutch designer Piet Hein Eek creates distinctive designer furniture from scraps of wood.
13 Dec 11
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Place specific
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Architecture & Interiors
Thomas Heatherwick renovated a luxury shopping and entertainment complex in Hong Kong to give it a more contemporary look and feel.
12 Dec 11
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Urban origami
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spanish street artist Nuria Mora creates large and colourful origami pieces for urban spaces.
12 Dec 11
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Crystal containers
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Product Design
With "Containers II" Studio Job transformed old crystal vessels into a coffee pot, a waste basket and a saucepan.
11 Dec 11
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Widest love
Design News
For every artwork in the If You Let Yourself Love a Wild Thing Exhibition at Salon91 in Cape Town, a tree will be planted.
11 Dec 11
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Copper classic
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Madison Street Model bicycle is inspired by the vintage bikes of the 1930s.
10 Dec 11
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Individual mass
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Product Design
Klaas Kuiken's "Bottles" use the archetypal green glass bottle to ask if there are any irregularities in mass production.
10 Dec 11
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25 + 25
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Product Design
Nendo's solo exhibition at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, Japan, presents 25 objects and 25 spaces selected from more than 200 projects of the past ten years.
8 Dec 11
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Heath Nash at Design Indabar
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Design Thinking
Heath Nash talks about the African way of working with waste – turning it into useful products.
8 Dec 11
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Decoding digital
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Architecture & Interiors
The Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition at the Design Museum Holon looks at digital influences on visual art.
8 Dec 11
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Transient truths
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Interaction Design
Kyra van Ineveld's The Wiki Truth project reveals that the truth can be a fickle thing, especially in the age of crowd sourcing.
8 Dec 11
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Mokena Makeka at Design Indabar
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Urban & Landscape Design
Mokena Makeka believes creativity will change the world, provided creativity is given an opportunity to do so.
8 Dec 11
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Beginnings
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Architecture & Interiors
David Adjaye’s “Genesis” pavilion at Design Miami created an integrated space for meditation and community.
7 Dec 11
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Little letterpress
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Ishac Bertran's little letterpress is an ode to his love for typography and analogue processes.
7 Dec 11
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Lucky types
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Cape Town-based LuckyFella clothing label produces limited-edition T-shirts that allow typography to exist in the real world.
7 Dec 11
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