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Station slide
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Urban & Landscape Design
Skip the stairs, take the slide!
15 Jul 11
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Wear only ZA
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Save jobs while looking fabulous! Be sure to Wear Only ZA every Friday, because South African fashion is where it’s at for Fashion Fridays.
15 Jul 11
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Boiling
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Check out what’s happening on Cape Town’s independent film scene with On the Boil at the Fugard Theatre.
15 Jul 11
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Urban Sputnik
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Interaction Design
Urban Sputnik makes understanding the frontiers of astrophysical research easy for everyone, in an interactive cosmology project.
14 Jul 11
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Mousey mouse
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Product Design
Like a small animal, Nendo's Oppopet wireless computer mouse sometimes wants to be taken for a walk.
14 Jul 11
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Re-vamped up
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Urban & Landscape Design
Thingking’s design interventions at Velokhaya in Khayelitsha aims to make the centre more accessible, fun and functional.
14 Jul 11
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Bracket Light by Thingking
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Product Design
Simple and versatile, Thingking's Bracket light can be used in a variety of interesting ways.
13 Jul 11
00:31:56
"Design Samurai" Manabu Mizuno on the possibilities of design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Manabu Mizuno likes to refer to himself as a design samurai, in a very positive sense.
13 Jul 11
00:39:28
William Drenttel on design's global impact
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Promoting social entrepreneurship and applying design innovation to impact the world is what creativity is about for the William Drenttel (1953-2013).
13 Jul 11
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Free voices
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Voices in Freedom is a collection of posters that celebrate the independence of Mexico.
12 Jul 11
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Home and heart
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Design Thinking
Show that home is where the heart is with a sustainable concept for the Eco Design Competition.
12 Jul 11
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Instant fix
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Industrial Design
The Bike Fixtation is like a vending machine for cyclists, where they can both fix their bikes and grab a snack for themselves.
11 Jul 11
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Striking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A striking campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi draws attention to the work of the Volunteer Wildlife Services in rescuing animals from fires.
11 Jul 11
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Essentially organic
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Design Thinking
Luxurious, sustainable and gorgeous, Pacific Perfumes rethinks organic scents and its packaging.
11 Jul 11
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Maths-inspired
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Product Design
anOtherArchitect’s Hedronics chair is based on the mathematical polyhedron concept.
10 Jul 11
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Road side
Design News
Dave Southwood’s N1 collection of photographs captures the essence of the National Road One in South Africa.
10 Jul 11
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Transcendental Wayfaring
Design News
Dylan Culhane’s first solo exhibition in London, Transcendental Wayfaring, considers the natural beauty of his native South Africa.
9 Jul 11
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Tube hotel
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Design Thinking
A tubular, pyramid-like hotel targets budget travellers in Mexico. It comes with a spectacular view and is built with recycled concrete.
9 Jul 11
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Balloon mania
Design News
Soccer players, wearable fashion and Da Vinci, here's what it looks like in latex balloon.
8 Jul 11
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Common love
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Design Thinking
Share your community-changing ideas for the common good.
7 Jul 11
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For Men
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In an array of beautiful and natural fabrics, Stiaan Louw presents a collection of favourite pieces at the White Box Showroom in Jo’burg.
7 Jul 11
00:44:23
Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process.
7 Jul 11
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Plywood paintings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic design meets craftsmanship in Russian artist Aske’s Plywood artworks.
7 Jul 11
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Desk buddies
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Product Design
The AZ desk grows with children, making it the ideal workspace for tots, tweens and teens.
7 Jul 11
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As interest in building on water grows, MAST has come up with a flatpack modular system that will allow for floating homes.
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Studio DRIFT employs drones to vividly reimagine history’s architectural masterpieces.
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