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Secret space
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Matali Crasset's Wigwam for flooring company Tarkett demonstrates the possibilities of flooring materials and colour.
26 Oct 11
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It's all, yellow!
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Design Thinking
In a first for the African continent, Cape Town has been named the World Design Capital 2014.
26 Oct 11
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Ways of the waves
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Colour, curves, waves and total joy. Brazilian designer Tom Veiga's bright designs are inspired by the ocean and the vibrancy of his home country.
25 Oct 11
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Dying alone
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Interaction Design
What happens to the stories and belongings of people that die alone? Agata Niemkiewicz's Remember Me, but ah, Forget My Fate considers this sad situation.
25 Oct 11
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Yield the signs
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Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces.
25 Oct 11
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Musical feats
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spinning right round: Feats Per Minute have developed a prototype bicycle that has a record player on the back wheel. Long live vinyl!
24 Oct 11
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Bright ideas
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Design Thinking
Coffee, tea, copper, iron, Feminism, Marxism, arable farming, banking and more. Here's a look at 50 ideas that changed humanity.
24 Oct 11
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Visual variety for Jamie Oliver
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Pearlfisher designed the packaging for Jamie Oliver's ever-expanding range of food and lifestyle products.
24 Oct 11
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Etchings
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Tom Dixon's Etch candleholder casts a variety of gorgeously intricate shadows.
23 Oct 11
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Curiosity
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Maarten Baas’s The Curiosities of a Designer exhibition in Paris looks to the surreal and ways of story telling in design.
23 Oct 11
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Kitchen excellence
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Patricia Urquiola designed the interiors for luxury kitchen brand Scholtès's new flagship space in London.
22 Oct 11
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Well protected
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Talk about protecting your assets, the Lady Killer Vol 1 is a forceful little robot that works to protect your rings.
22 Oct 11
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Stefan Sagmeister at AGI Open 2011
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Stefan Sagmeister talks about his self-experimental film on happiness, The Happy Film.
21 Oct 11
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Well strung
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Architecture & Interiors
Traditional net-weaving techniques, as used by local fishermen in India, are used to create large-scale string sculptures.
21 Oct 11
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Christoph Niemann at AGI Open 2011
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Putting yourself in an extreme situation leads to more unexpected creative results, Christoph Niemann finds.
20 Oct 11
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Pieces of mind
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Ji Lee's Pieces of Mind project uses thousands of little Buddha statues to remind people to live in the moment and get a bit of peace of mind.
20 Oct 11
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Means to an end
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Photographer Patricia Driscoll's A Means to an End documents the abattoir as both a space of organisation and trauma.
20 Oct 11
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Marina Willer and Angus Hyland at AGI Open 2011
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Angus Hyland and Marina Willer talk about designing identities and the unsung heroes of graphic design.
20 Oct 11
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Colour with veggies
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Food Design
"Kleurentaart" is a cake made with vegetables to explore the possibilities of using food and colour in a variety of ways.
19 Oct 11
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Graphic design now
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Graphic Design: Now in Production is one of the largest graphic design exhibitions of recent years. Curator Andrew Blauvelt tells more.
19 Oct 11
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Earth building
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Architecture & Interiors
A single-storey house in Japan is built with bricks made using the local soil and magnesium oxide. It explores the use of regional building solutions.
19 Oct 11
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Visual broadcast
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Urban & Landscape Design
The Broadcasts exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery in Durban is a "visual mouthpiece", illustrating people's thoughts on important issues.
19 Oct 11
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Story telling
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Story Time is a time piece that tells a sequence of events, rather than the time.
18 Oct 11
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Wining and dining
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The La Cave a Vin 9 wine bar in Paris is a modern, intimate space that rethinks the way wine bars are enjoyed.
18 Oct 11
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