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The indigenous style
Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction.
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Post-er-boy
Spoek Mathambo is the MC who is burning up the European dance charts with his Sweat.X and Playdoe collaborations.
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Paint the town with poetry
Lemn Sissay turns words into monuments, literally. Spending some time in South Africa, the poet gives Nadine Botha a verbal whiplashing.
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Hands-free viral
Cow Africa is a small agency in Cape Town that specialise in guerrilla marketing through stunts, the web and mobile.
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South moves up top
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Design 2009 is about time
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Koos
Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released.
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Inside today’s pantry
crEATe is a timely overview of the state of our world’s pantry, researched and written by the Future Laboratory, published by Gestalaten.
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Can you taste when food is made with love?
Marije Vogelzang's debut monograph, Eat Love, poses some intriguing questions regarding food an the act of eating.
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No happy ending
As technology races towards a constantly receding utopia, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby warn of its economic, cultural and ethical impacts.
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As deep as it gets
Designer Richard Hart has created recesses of kindness in his first art exhibition.
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The art of science
Integrating engineering and art, Michaella Janse van Vuuren has stumbled upon infinite applications for rapid prototyping.
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Fishing for nonsense
We persevered... and got some sense out of 'nonsense pioneer' Nobumichi Tosa.
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Fabulous fantasia
Marcel Wanders has designed more than a lifetime’s worth of knotted chairs – he’s designed himself.
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SA in graphic prime
Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design is by artist, designer, writer and independent publisher, Michael MacGarry.
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Bellville Rock City
The CD/DVD box set Bellville Rock City offers a veritable resource of profiles, music videos, tracks and documentary coverage.
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Not just an album design pioneer
Reasons to be Cheerful by Paul Gorman makes a case for the canonisation of Barney Bubbles in the history of 20th century design.
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Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts
Fonts are pretty dresses for letters used to communicate on paper with ink, right? Wrong, says Typo: The Beautiful World of Fonts.
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Dancing pictures
Nadine Botha talks to the resident kidults of Am I Collective about their new animation project, Disko.
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Citizen of the World
Internationally celebrated jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguiça has released his second Moreira Project album, Citizen of the World.
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Doodle for a Difference
Doodle for a Difference pays tribute to the participants, profiles the benefactors and offers a visual history of Night of 1 000 Drawings.
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Bird on a wire
Addressing the ongoing question of preciousness in contemporary jewellery, Kelly Mccallum is looking to natural history for inspiration.
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Tangible brand marks
Logos are possibly the most ubiquitous intervention that the birth of the advertising industry in the 20th century has brought to market.
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Worldly stuff
Creator of worlds and purveyor of jumble, set designer Angela Nemov speaks to Nadine Botha.
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