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Hillbrow, London

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.

2 Nov 07
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Underground at Woolworths

Design News > Urban & Landscape Design

Unique design and marketing company World War Won (WWW) were recently unleashed on the Woolworths corporate parking lot.

2 Nov 07
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The bobo movement

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Following the success of their first design event in February, whatiftheworld staged Number Two in their new Woodstock gallery space.

2 Nov 07
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MCQP is FAB

Design News > Creative Economy

What may now be seen as just a wild party, the socially conscious ideals behind the Mother City Queer Project bear remembering.

2 Nov 07
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Tsai times two

Design News > Product Design

Two awards have highlighted the communal value of Tsai Design Studio’s Nested Bunk Beds.

2 Nov 07
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Shoe-wow!

Design News > Industrial Design

Spanish shoe designer Laura Villasenin has incorporated Peet Pienaar’s graphic finesse and quirky slogans.

2 Nov 07
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Tall tale for kids

Reviews > Graphic Design & Illustration

Electric Book Works’s first children’s book, uTshepo Mde: Tall Enough, has raked in the awards.

2 Nov 07
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‘You can’t bomb an idea’

Design News > Graphic Design & Illustration

The Design Museum in London hosted a Jonathan Barnbrook retrospective in conjunction with...

2 Nov 07
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Crafting a difference

Design News > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.

2 Nov 07
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1+1 makes 3

Profiling > Product Design

Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien, talk about layering, craft and storytelling in their creative collaboration.

1 Nov 07
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Arkitects r in ur internets, makin it eeze

Opinion > Interaction Design

In the so-called web 2.0 age, the most powerful design is invisible, writes Brad Whittington.

1 Nov 07
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From the stomach to the heart

Opinion > Food Design

“Designers cannot get closer to people than to make a design that becomes part of the body,” says Dutch food designer Marije Vogelzang.

1 Nov 07
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Kill the copy cat

Opinion > Design Thinking

Frederick Mostert and Don MacRobert, authors of From Edison to iPod, offer this simple guide to intellectual property rights.

1 Nov 07
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Maximum velocity

Q&A > Product Design

When “The Soviet Union Forever” was replaced with “Always Coca-Cola”, Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky turned to design as social critique.

1 Nov 07
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Brian Eno on the purpose of art

Talks > Music & Sound Design

Celebrated artist and producer Brian Eno shares some of his theories on a range of topics, including evolution and art, at Design Indaba Conference 2007.

10 Sep 07
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A Kyoto treaty for design

Opinion > Design Thinking

The case for designers to tackle the challenges of environmentalism, posed by Valerie Casey of frog design.

1 Aug 07
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New old solutions

Design News > Design Thinking

Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.

1 Aug 07
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Waste not want not

Opinion > Fashion & Jewellery Design

Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.

1 Aug 07
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Buying green back

Design News > Design Thinking

Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.

1 Aug 07
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Sustainable = humanist

Opinion > Industrial Design

Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.

1 Aug 07
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Electric avenue

Q&A > Urban & Landscape Design

To paraphrase Mark Twain, rumours of the electric car's death have been greatly exaggerated. Fiona Zerbst discovers the Tesla.

1 Aug 07
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How many designers does it take to change the light?

Opinion > Design Thinking

The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.

1 Aug 07
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Carpet bombing

Opinion > Design Thinking

Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.

1 Aug 07
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Flotsam and jetsam

Design News > Design Thinking

Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.

1 Aug 07

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