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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
00:35:21
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
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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
00:03:53
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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Nomad's Land
Profiling
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Product Design
Steve Kotze talks art and Afrikaner adaptability with artist Stefan Naude aka ST(E)AK.
2 Aug 14
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SA's top buildings
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Architecture & Interiors
Presenting this year's winners of the South Africa Institute of Architecture's awards celebrating architectural excellence in the country.
2 Aug 14
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Next Generation: Megan King
Next Generation
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Design Activism
Megan King's social enterprise Colour iKamva delivers a bright burst of colourful hope to children's spaces in Africa.
1 Aug 14
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Take Five
Take Five
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Product Design
What got readers clicking this week? Local fashion, a digital tool for manufacturing and insights about African consumers, among others.
1 Aug 14
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Iconic Houses
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Film & Animation
A two-minute animated tour of some of the 20th century’s most recognisable and well-loved buildings.
1 Aug 14
00:04:12
Joy McKinney: Studies in awkwardness
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Art & Photography
This photographer puts herself in awkward social positions to challenge the socially accepted boundaries between people.
31 Jul 14
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Whisper chandelier by High Thorn
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Product Design
High Thorn's latest lighting design is a cascade of leather evoking a laidback sense of luxury.
31 Jul 14
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"Lazy Eys" by Sakawa Boys
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Music & Sound Design
Shiba Mazaza selects a deliciously fluid and fun single by the Sakawa Boys, 'arguably one of the best acts to come out of Cape Town this year'.
31 Jul 14
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How do you deal with failure?
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Product Design
Failure is built into the creative process. But how to face it? Nine designers tell us how they do it.
30 Jul 14
00:04:13
Casey Neistat: The maverick filmmaker
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Film & Animation
Meet the YouTube sensation who is redefining what it means to be a filmmaker.
30 Jul 14
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Naoto Fukasawa: Design as second nature
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Product Design
Five minutes with the acclaimed Japanese designer, whose products emerge so seamlessly from their environment that they feel at once familiar and inevitable.
29 Jul 14
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A helping hand
Design Frontiers
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Product Design
A new smart tool from MIT Media Lab is blurring the lines between handmade and digital technology. But that's not a bad thing.
29 Jul 14
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Inside View: Content's king
Inside View
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Alistair King tells us how the One Rand Man began – and it didn’t start with a brief.
29 Jul 14
00:03:36
Renny Ramakers: A voice for beauty and relevance
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Product Design
The veteran of the Dutch design world exhorts her colleagues to find poetic solutions that engage with society's ills.
28 Jul 14
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