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Good vibes
Pleasure comes in many, multiple forms in this overview of sex-related creative produce.
Joy stick
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Product Design
Please welcome the third and final addition to the “Pleasure to the People” range of pleasurable products.
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6 Apr 11
Milk anyone?
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Product Design
The Milkmaid, made by Guido Ooms of Studio OOOMS and Davy Grosemans, was inspired by Johannes Vermeer’s painting Het Melkmeisje.
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2 May 10
Biologically creative
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Interaction Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Biotypography, invented by type designer and experimentalist Oded Ezer, is a term that refers to typography that uses biological systems.
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2 May 10
Blame it on the bunny
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Designer Malika Favre of Airside design studio considers letters and the ability to turn anything into letter-form to be beautiful.
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2 May 10
African Bondage
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Garth Walker's Winky font is a bondage-inspired font that has been published globally, but has rarely been seen in South Africa.
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2 May 10
Many ways to love
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Mathieu Lehanneur, Arik Levy, Matali Crasset and Florence Jaffrain shared their fantasies in the Preliminaries exhibition.
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2 May 10
Changing the inappropriate
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
“Pussy, Ass & Dick.” To most people these words are inappropriate and vulgar, their use impermissible in society. Arik Levy challenges that.
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2 May 10
Beneath the surface
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There’s something that makes you double take when you look at a piece of Stuart Bird’s work. At first you simply see it for the artwork...
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2 May 10
A little koekie time
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Interaction Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Inspired by an old-school good homemaker book, Hostess Koekies is a spunky alternative to the over-subscribed Rules Book.
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2 May 10
Sensual beginnings
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Tracey-Lee Scully's Auto-Erotic Photo-Romantic project was inspired by her travels to Berlin and the Photoautomat machines in the city.
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2 May 10
Queering Anne
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If Queen Anne of England was alive today there’s a good chance she’d have plenty to say about Ernst van der Val’s ball&claw series.
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2 May 10
A rubber history
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
While many buy condoms and only see them for the function they serve, this fraction of rubber has a great deal of history behind it.
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2 May 10
Delicious second skin
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
What happens when you have a passion for beautiful clothing and the seductive feeling of latex? You get Kaori Matsubara’s Latex Dreams.
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2 May 10
Metallic masterpiece
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Product Design
The name “Olga” brings to mind many unsavoury images of women – courtesy of cinema magic – deep in the rural towns of Russia.
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2 May 10
Double the fun
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Product Design
The Form 2 vibrator by Yves Béhar is the first in Jimmyjane’s “Pleasure to the People” series.
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2 May 10
Oh so hip Bone
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Product Design
Sex toys aren’t top pf the list when it comes to designers looking to start their career and make an impact. It is for this reason that...
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2 May 10
Sex is the new yellow
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Design Thinking
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Creative Economy
According to international trend forecaster Li Edelkoort, sex is gaining importance in society and the bordello is making a comeback.
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1 May 10
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