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The face of type
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Erik Spiekermann is a tireless and outspoken talking head for the functional and aesthetic design of absolutely everything.
1 May 02
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The spirit of photography
Opinion
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Art & Photography
Back to the Khumb Mela, the Hindu festival that takes place every 12 years outside Allahabad.
1 May 02
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Thought for food
Q&A
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Food Design
Nicky Apostolis interviewed Marti Guixé after his lecture at Design Indaba. But after one question, they drew pictures instead.
1 May 02
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Divas by design
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Luba Lukova from New York, Teresa Roviras from London, Lucille Tenazas from San Francisco.
1 May 02
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Summer folly
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
CT's topography forms a dramatic and vertiginous backdrop to a delightful glass tree house that's perfect for lofty summer city living.
1 May 02
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Drawing blanks
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Go to any city in South Africa and take a look at what's hanging on the lampposts. Not much, really.
1 May 02
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Drawing the online
Design News
Joshua Davis is a visual, virtual artist – the mouse is a brush, the pixels are paint. By his own admission, his work is not always useful.
1 May 02
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What goes around comes around
Opinion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fast-forwarding into the future, fashion increasingly rewinds to the past.
1 Feb 02
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Netactivist
Design News
Hans A Bernhard is the civil name of hans_extrem, etoy.HANS, etoy.BRAINHARD, net_CALLBOY.
1 Feb 02
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The best of Mark Farrow
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Manchester born Mark Farrow has been called one of the heroes of the creative industries by Creative Review Magazine and deservedly so.
1 Feb 02
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Ancestral design
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Beads have become a tourist delight, but what about beads as a symbol of another reality, writes Moshidi Motshegwa.
1 Feb 02
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Three tales of Jozi
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Rodney Place, Johan van Wyk and Muzi Kuzwayo offer three different takes on the city of gold.
1 Feb 02
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More and more
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
This year in graphic design, there seem to have been more styles being touted than I can shake a stick at, writes Lewis Blackwell.
1 Feb 02
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Keeping up with the Joneses
Design News
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Art & Photography
i-D's new book, Learn and Pass It On, is a collection of life lessons and mantras written, photographed or faxed by creatives.
1 Feb 02
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Positive vibration
Inside View
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Design Thinking
The story of Rastafari, by Taweni Gondwe.
1 Nov 01
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Deconstructing portraiture
Q&A
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Art & Photography
"My pictures do ask many questions to which I don't have the answers. I think that there probably are no answers," says Nadav Kander.
1 Nov 01
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A Frosty day in Durban
Q&A
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Vince Frost presented a workshop to students in Durban. Taweni Gondwe interviewed him.
1 Nov 01
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Big dada
Opinion
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Interaction Design
Rich Crosier writes about how to stage a play about a dictatorial dingbat.
1 Nov 01
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Art, fashion and social consciousness
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
A celebration of Lucy Orta's architectural fashion.
1 Nov 01
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Fragile firedancer flower
Design News
Jeannette Unite is a Cape Town based artist and exhibits her work both locally and internationally.
1 Nov 01
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Flash player
Q&A
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Interaction Design
Interview with Flash guru Andries Odendaal.
1 Nov 01
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Signs of the times
Opinion
Every day, we encounter symbols that make impressions.
1 Nov 01
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Crop till it hurts
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Lewis Blackwell was once again - for about the 135th time in his life - stunned by the power of the crop in creative work.
1 Nov 01
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A Madness called soccer
Opinion
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Creative Economy
1 Aug 01
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Heatherwick Studio unveils a unique kinetic greenhouse in West Sussex
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