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Blossoming furniture
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Product Design
Klein Dytham Architecture designed, developed and produced this outdoor cherry blossom party furniture.
2 May 08
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Coley Porter Bell launches in SA
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Creative Economy
International branding and design company Coley Porter Bell has partnered with Ogilvy SA to launch locally.
2 May 08
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Nothing is lost
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Architecture & Interiors
Jason Bruges's new Memory Project is an interactive installation piece.
2 May 08
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Sea change
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Product Design
Heath Nash's Anemone light for Artecnica was launched at this year's Milan Furniture Fair.
2 May 08
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Ziggy prop
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Product Design
Ryan Frank's ZiG is a modular display/storage system made from solid bamboo.
2 May 08
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Animation challenges the imagination ceiling
Design News
Roger Smythe, managing director of multiple-award-winning animation studio Masters & Savant, talks about the possibilities of animation.
2 May 08
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Stay the night
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Architecture & Interiors
Architect Andrew Makin and entrepreneur Nicky Rofail have collaborated on a new boutique hotel, Motel Mi Pi Chi.
2 May 08
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MoMa acquires local design zines
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A selection of BitterKomix and BitterJusi issues have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York for their permanent collection.
2 May 08
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The faces that find me
Design News
Dylan Culhane's Photoklecksography exhibition was inspired by Justinus Kerner and Hermann Rorschach's exploration of mirrored images.
2 May 08
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Watching glass grow
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Product Design
Ilse Doyer of Glamosa Glass and glass artist Martli Jansen van Rensburg have joined forces to explore and innovate on glass work.
2 May 08
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Design, art or soup kitchen?
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Architecture & Interiors
Exploring the legroom between art and design is Cape Town's newest gallery - Curious, Whetstone & Frankley.
2 May 08
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Designer hideaway at art fair
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Architecture & Interiors
Billed as the world's first contemporary African art fair, the Jo'burg Art Fair 2008 welcomed 6 500 visitors through its doors.
2 May 08
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Remade plastic trees
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Product Design
South Africa's second Open Lab was held recently at the Design Quarter in Johannesburg.
2 May 08
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2 000 designs for 100 year anniversary
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Graphic Design & Illustration
As part of the University of Pretoria's centenary celebrations, more than 2 000 designs by alumni will be exhibited.
2 May 08
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A body of plants
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fashion design team duo Strangelove, Carlo Gibson and Ziemek Pater, collaborated with Leora Farber on Dis-Location/Re-Location.
2 May 08
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Inn harness
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Architecture & Interiors
Ilse Crawford has cast her enchanting touch across the English inn, using country materials such as rush matting, tweed and pewter.
2 May 08
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Paper architect under the hammer
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Architecture & Interiors
Japanese starchitect Shigeru Ban's Paper Tea House reached £31 700 at a Phillips de Pury and Company auction.
2 May 08
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SABS Design Excellence Award scheme
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Product Design
South African product designers are invited to submit entries for the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Awards.
2 May 08
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A bigger personal history
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Graphic designer Jan Erasmus has documented his 25-year career in Intrigue.
2 May 08
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Beads go ape
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Creative Economy
Bead by Bead presents the uplifting story of Monkeybiz, from original lightbulb moment to the beacon of social upliftment it is today.
2 May 08
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Indie Undies
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
With six years of success as local lingerie label Ruby, Robyn Lidsky has joined forces with David Gimpel to launch Men United.
2 May 08
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Along the way
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Disturbance Design's contribution to Cascoland, a multi-disciplinary public art project, which focussed on a walking route through Durban.
2 May 08
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Imagination @ 2.0 gbps
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Design Thinking
Professor Shin-ichi Takemura announces the dawn of a new era of mass media.
1 May 08
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Phantom limbs
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
With science fiction turning into reality on a daily basis, what will our bodies look like in the future, asks Christoph Zellweger.
1 May 08
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