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Violent contrasts
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
Van Coke Kartel's latest album, Skop, Skiet en Donner, bears testament to their versatility as local artists of an international calibre.
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11 Jul 10
Fashion schmashion
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Being fashionable is hard work, especially when the rules seem to change all the time. Here's a nifty guide to make it a tad easier.
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8 Jul 10
Sweet Soweto
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Creative Economy
“Soweto is like Hollywood to me. Everything is here,” says Jozi FM’s Sibongile Mazibuko in the intro to Jodi Bieber’s new book.
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7 Jul 10
Football diaries
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Creative Economy
Part photographic journey, part social documentary, Football Muti captures the spirit of football and what it means to the people of Africa.
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21 Jun 10
Bringing the chic to soccer
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Creative Economy
A gorgeous new coffee table book captures some of the unique South African aspects of soccer.
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21 Jun 10
The future is entertaining
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Creative Economy
Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity.
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2 Jun 10
The walls tell stories
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Creative Economy
Johannesburg Transition, subtitled “Architecture and Society from 1950”, by Clive M Chipkin is a brilliant biography of Jozi.
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25 May 10
If you can't chuck it, store it… neatly
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Product Design
In his book "Storage: Get Organized", published by Conran Octopus, Terence Conran shows you how to systemically manage your things.
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19 May 10
Vinyl still a design showcase
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Music & Sound Design
Showcasing a diverse mix of art and design, it was Muse's The Resistance album that took first place in the 2009 Best Art Vinyl Awards.
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12 Feb 10
Hot Afro
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Photographer Craig Fraser slips into the homes of some of South Africa's creative individuals to find distinctly South African interiors.
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12 Feb 10
Ai Weiwei
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Architecture & Interiors
An exploration of 21st-century multidisciplinary creative mastermind, Ai Weiwei, his outsize public persona and outspoken world views.
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12 Feb 10
The joke’s on you
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The fourth Laugh It Off Annual is out and proving that it's possible to find humour just about anywhere if you're looking hard enough.
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12 Feb 10
The Tale of How
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An absolutely beautifully illustrated book celebrating the success of the award-winning Blackheart Gang's animation.
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12 Feb 10
The power of ideas is in everyone
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Creative Economy
Ideas are slippery things, but by personifying them with moods and reason, you control your ideas and how they can shape your life.
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12 Feb 10
Inevitable architectural change
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
An up-to-the-minute commentary on contemporary architecture examining the changing innovations by the world's leading architects.
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12 Feb 10
Design: Intelligence Made Visible
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Industrial Design
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Creative Economy
Design heavyweights Terence Conran and Stephen Bayley come together to beautifully package and present this 300-page design encyclopaedia.
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12 Feb 10
English knows no bounds
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Creative Economy
The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of the English language, a plunge into the world of words and a dip into a decidedly interesting lexis.
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12 Feb 10
TAXI-014 Mmakgabo Mmapula Mmankgato Helen Sebidi
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Design Thinking
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Playing a key role in South African arts education, the 14th Taxi art book celebrates Helen Sebedi's contribution to art during apartheid.
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10 Feb 10
Look Mom, No Hands
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Music & Sound Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
True South African multi-culturalism, Mix n Blend display a genre-busting sound and colourful illustrations on their debut album.
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1 Feb 10
Kentridge in five
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Creative Economy
William Kentridge: Five Themes catalogues the career of this iconic South African artist.
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2 Dec 09
Know rules to break them
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Never Use White Type on a Black Background must be one of the most fun and quirky books one can read about design and fashion rules.
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1 Dec 09
The 10 000 hours manifesto
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Creative Economy
In Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell suggests the magical benchmark of time for success is 10 000 hours of practise.
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1 Dec 09
50c business bible
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Creative Economy
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Music & Sound Design
The 50th Law (Profile Books) tells the life of 50 Cent, aka Curt Jackson, who topped Forbes magazine’s Hip-Hop Cash King list in 2008.
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30 Nov 09
CD: Shaka Won
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
After their first album release in 2006, the cool kids of Mtkidu have (finally) released their second limited-edition album, Shaka Won.
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28 Nov 09
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