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Designer rubbish
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Five Black Bins brought together five Cape Town design studios to redesign five garbage bins in Woodstock, Cape Town.
1 Nov 08
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Rhode hits London streets
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South African art lovers have long known that Robin Rhode's stop-motion street-inspired art is too cool for school, now he's hit London.
1 Nov 08
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Draw and draw again
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg.
1 Nov 08
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The Art of Possibility Returns
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Music & Sound Design
Benjamin and Rosamund Zander to return for more Art of Possibility on December 1 and 3, after a jam-packed programme across South Africa.
1 Nov 08
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Nampak packaging design challenge
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge
1 Nov 08
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Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
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Product Design
The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments.
1 Nov 08
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SVW scholarship and workshop
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Graphic Design & Illustration
New York's first annual SahreVictoreWilker graphic design workshop hosted 40 participants from eight different countries for seven days.
1 Nov 08
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Meta/physical
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Interaction Design
Belgian choreographer Frederic Flamand and Brazilian design duo Humberto and Fernando Campana give life to Ovid's Metamorphosis poems.
1 Nov 08
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City of type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Dutch typographer Richard Niessen was recently in South Africa as a guest of design agency The President and gave a workshop on typography.
1 Nov 08
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Music fun in a packet
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Music & Sound Design
MK Bruce Lee is a new magazine packaged in Lucky Packet format and designed by Peet Pienaar for alternative South African music channel MK.
1 Nov 08
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New fair trade shop in South Africa
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Architecture & Interiors
British fair trade company adila (just & fair) moved its head office to Langebaan and is opening its first retail store in November.
1 Nov 08
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SA fashion hits the silver screen
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
South Africa’s first fashion magazine show has launched on SABC3 on Saturdays at 6.30pm showcasing all things fashion in Africa.
1 Nov 08
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Witty wallpaper
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Javier Mariscal has launched a new range of wallpaper through Tres Tintas BSC, each design bearing Mariscal’s trademark quirkiness.
1 Nov 08
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The end of minimalism
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Product Design
Stefano Giovannoni’s OrienTales opens a new chapter in the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum of Taiwan.
1 Nov 08
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Cattle heads ceramics competition
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Craft
This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth.
1 Nov 08
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Full moon for eco-fashion
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Design Thinking
Ethical South African fashion label Lunar, is one of 28 international designers to participate in Esthetica at the London Fashion Week.
1 Nov 08
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Cops coin it on Sagmeister
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Architecture & Interiors
Dutch police confiscate Stefan Sagmeister’s installation of 300 000 eurocent coins for Droog at Experimentadesign in Amsterdam in September.
1 Nov 08
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Hot foreigners in Jozi
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Love Jozi models posed for the camera showing off the ninth range of T-shirts, the Xenocentric Range, after telling why they live in Jozi.
1 Nov 08
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The art of fashion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Wearable Art - the theme for this year's Rendezvous curated by Gordon Froud drew fine artists and fashion designers to participate.
1 Nov 08
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Tees for trees
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Brazilian fashion designer Carlos Miele has launched a range of T-shirts as a fundraiser for the Rainforest Foundation.
1 Nov 08
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Direct via the Transkei
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Product Design
South African Design Afrika participated in the new Inspiration series for the Conran Shop with Xhosa gourd baskets.
1 Nov 08
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Travelling on trains with kids
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Illustrator Christoph Niemann’s new New York Times blog grabbed attention when he added these illustrations of subway travel with his sons.
1 Nov 08
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Not quite Discovery Channel
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Architecture & Interiors
The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals.
1 Nov 08
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Juliette Lewis chooses Misfit
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Music & Sound Design
Signature South African fashion label Misfit made the breakthrough into the European market at this year's Bread & Butter show in Barcelona.
1 Nov 08
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