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Milestones and goalposts
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In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives.
8 Jun 10
00:39:33
Ineke Hans asks "Where to From Here?"
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Ineke Hans looks at the future of playing and asks, "Where to from here, designers?"
8 Jun 10
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Fashionable football fever
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories.
7 Jun 10
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Young and grey
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Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame.
7 Jun 10
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Writing on trees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art?
7 Jun 10
00:41:14
Shigeru Uchida on the power of weakness
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Weakness is part of design as much as it is part of human nature.
4 Jun 10
00:45:13
5.5 Designers on sustaining great design
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5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable.
4 Jun 10
00:43:02
AdamsMorioka: what lies beneath
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Graphic Design & Illustration
AdamsMorioka reveal what lies beneath the slick, ultra-cool veneer of designers.
4 Jun 10
00:30:22
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire
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For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people.
4 Jun 10
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Magnetic trailer park attraction
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Creative Economy
There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley.
4 Jun 10
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No tick, no tock
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic.
3 Jun 10
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The final countdown
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Graphic Design & Illustration
With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster.
3 Jun 10
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Li Edelkoort presents a future past
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Architecture & Interiors
A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future.
2 Jun 10
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Modular graphics
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook.
2 Jun 10
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The future is entertaining
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Creative Economy
Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity.
2 Jun 10
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Switched on competition
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Design Thinking
Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time.
2 Jun 10
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Alternative imaginations
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Creative Economy
Design is about love, not money, and believing in the potential of design being something for the whole world.
2 Jun 10
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Leather satchels and literacy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion.
2 Jun 10
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Egyptian creativity on the design map
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Design Thinking
The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design.
2 Jun 10
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Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment
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Creative Economy
Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson.
1 Jun 10
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Three little pigs
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Product Design
Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter.
1 Jun 10
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Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit.
31 May 10
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Versatile Velcro
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Craft
Velcro has been used in everything from heart surgery to nuclear power plants and disposable nappies. Rachel O’Neill brings it to design.
31 May 10
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Exhibitor success story: User Design
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Product Design
As the world lifts itself from the rubble left by the economic downturn, design is taking a new turn and looking to new inspiration.
30 May 10
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Former Design Indaba Emerging Creative Kenyaa Mzee’s latest visual collection is exhibiting at Youngblood Gallery, Cape Town in October.
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Design Indaba, Beefeater Gin and I Love The Dough collaborated on turning a pavement into a community-minded parklet.
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