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Ooona Scheepers' timeless automobile design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Oona Scheepers tells Design Indaba how nature inspires timeless automobile design.
1 May 08
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Seamstory
Profiling
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Amanda Laird Cherry talks about how the fabric of society has changed through her past few collections.
1 May 08
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50 buck design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba invited Durban creatives to show-and-tell us the best design to be bought in Durban for under R50.
1 May 08
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Processed space
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Design Thinking
Cascoland producer and evangelist, Vincent Truter explains what it means to be one among many.
1 May 08
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Redheads, tall tales and shoeboxes
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Durban illustrator and designer Kim Longhurst shares her newest work.
1 May 08
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Reddy steady...
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Architecture & Interiors
Durban architect Ruben Reddy has accelerated into the fast lane of international sporting structures.
1 May 08
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Digital is not the answer
Inside View
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Design Thinking
During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest.
1 May 08
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Digital dandies
Opinion
Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are...
1 May 08
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2008 Commercial - Platinum
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Design Thinking
An official commercial for the 2008 Design Indaba - a conference and expo looking to redesign our thinking and our reality.
20 Feb 08
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2008 Commercial - Timber
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Design Thinking
The official commercial for the Design Indaba 2008. A Jupiter Drawing Room creation
20 Feb 08
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Designers through the looking glass
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Product Design
French product designer Matali Crasset is just one of the designers who contributed to Domestic's Narcisse collection of artists' mirrors.
2 Feb 08
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Top architecture exhibition in Cape Town
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Architecture & Interiors
The 2007 DaimlerChrysler Award for South African Architecture exhibition will be on show in Cape Town until March 30.
2 Feb 08
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Let them eat cake!
Design News
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Creative Economy
Rita João, Pedro Ferreira and Frederico Duarte have picked up their pens to celebrate Portugal's heritage of cakes.
2 Feb 08
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The green pink party
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Product Design
Seeking to return to its artistic roots, the Mother City Queer Project appointed designer Heath Nash as creative director for 2007.
2 Feb 08
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Only you can prevent forest fires
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Design Thinking
Creative consultancy Animal Farm brewed a clever idea to highlight the plight of the already stretched Fire Department.
2 Feb 08
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Winter fashion for cool cats
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Head down to the Sanlam SA Fashion Week Winter 08/09 Collections from 14 to 15 March 2008.
2 Feb 08
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Not quite the garden variety
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The Carry Me Away exhibition at the Corner Café in Durban saw 10 local artists and designers celebrate the wheelbarrow.
2 Feb 08
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Hani Rashid and the sun king
Design News
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Product Design
The LQ chandelier, designed by Hani Rashid, is the first to be launched in the new Zumtobel Lighteriors Avantgarde Collection.
2 Feb 08
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It's a pot, doll!
Design News
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Product Design
Designer Cornelius Lemmer will be launching his new range of Dolly Pots at the 2008 Design Indaba Expo.
2 Feb 08
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Carrol Boyes call for entries
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Craft
Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame".
2 Feb 08
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Max normal for kids
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Music & Sound Design
Avant-garde rapper Max Normal has turned his creative touch to an exclusive range of 36 handmade animal toys.
2 Feb 08
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Locomotion, manipulation, conversation
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Interaction Design
Father of interaction design, Bill Moggridge talks about creating the technology landscape of the future.
1 Feb 08
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My ekasi, my ekapa
Hot Topic
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Product Design
Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is.
1 Feb 08
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Gugu = pride
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Two contrasting views on Gugulethu from The Beautiful Struggle, by Per Englund and Mlamli Figlan, and the Gugulective.
1 Feb 08
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