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Silver etchings
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Paper Silver Print jewellery range by Frieda Lühl combines silver plates and precious stones.
25 Feb 11
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Factory of hope
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Craft
The Hope Factory makes unique corporate gifts while also creating a sustainable form of employment.
25 Feb 11
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Mother continent
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Continent Africa’s T-shirts are for those that appreciate and enjoy simplicity.
24 Feb 11
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MP3 Experiment at Camps Bay
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Interaction Design
Hundreds of Capetonians took part in the MP3 Experiment organised by Charlie Todd in the lead up to the Design Indaba Conference and Expo.
23 Feb 11
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Bag o' goodness
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Craft
Made from re-used polypropylene sacks, Give It Bag makes ethical shopping desirable.
23 Feb 11
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Gem of a jewel
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Shelley & Harry's unique jewellery pieces take their cue from the original shape and beauty of precious gems.
23 Feb 11
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Hat stand
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Product Design
Pedersen + Lennard are focused on quality products, innovative design and a simple aesthetic.
22 Feb 11
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Not now, maybe later
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Product Design
Check out this interesting innovation that hopes to help procrastinators to... well, procrastinate less!
22 Feb 11
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Plant a wall
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Industrial Design
The Wallflower Vertical Garden is a modular planter system by Haldane Martin, created to enable city dwellers to grow their own plants.
21 Feb 11
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Plants for productivity
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Product Design
The Oasis collection is a great way of bringing the great outdoors to the corporate indoors.
21 Feb 11
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Master carpentry
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Creative Economy
Besides a wide selection of design and art books, David Krut Projects will be featuring the work of Helder Torrao at DI2011 Expo.
21 Feb 11
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Drawn object
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Justin Southey is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work covers many different mediums and stylistic variations.
20 Feb 11
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Sweet seat
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Product Design
The Snowjob chair is made of sweet wrappers that would otherwise have been discarded.
20 Feb 11
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Graphic revelations
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Confessions of a Design Thief in New York is an overview of some of Durban-based Garth Walker's work since democracy.
19 Feb 11
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Everyday design
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Industrial Design
For over 12 years Ideso has helped clients create over 300 products that people use and and interact with everyday.
19 Feb 11
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Underground antics
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Architecture & Interiors
Check out a rollicking indie documentary about the "Merry Pranksters" of architecture at the 2011 Design Indaba Filmfest.
18 Feb 11
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Locker up
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Product Design
Raw Studios specialises in original products made from sustainably sourced, engineered materials.
18 Feb 11
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Room with a view
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Architecture & Interiors
A Zen-inspired room, atop a building in the middle of a city, is like floating in the space between earth and sky.
18 Feb 11
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Grand introductions at DI2011 Filmfest
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We don’t mean to name drop but we thought we’d mention the celebrated creatives who’ll introduce films at the Design Indaba Filmfest.
17 Feb 11
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Window dressing
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Product Design
From shocking pink to acid yellow, Karim Rashid's blackout blinds are anything but dull.
17 Feb 11
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Cattle adornments
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Astrid Sulger transforms Nguni cow horn into a collection of sophisticated necklaces, rings, and bracelets.
17 Feb 11
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Desk for design
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Product Design
CO Designs will unveil their new Concept Designer’s desk at Design Indaba Expo 2011.
16 Feb 11
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Twitter lights!
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Design Thinking
The Twitter Ball raises awareness about plastic waste in the ocean, using Twitter to highlight the cause.
16 Feb 11
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Behind the scenes
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Creative Economy
There’s something both mysterious and inviting about a coffee table book that has the phrase “You should have been with me”.
15 Feb 11
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