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CD: Mooi Besoedeling
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Music & Sound Design
For Zinkplaat's fourth album, designers Fanakalo.co.za created a scratch-off album cover.
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27 Nov 09
Gay architectural mockumentary
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Architecture & Interiors
Billed as a “gay architectural mockumentary”, The Satyr of Springbok Heights is Cape Town architect Robert Silke’s first foray into film.
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1 Nov 09
Jaunted Haunts Press
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Music & Sound Design
Righard Kapp recently released four albums on his garage label Jaunted Haunts Press.
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5 Sep 09
Yes, Pet Shop Boys by Mark Farrow
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
For the limited-edition of the Pet Shop Boys’s latest offering, Yes, Mark Farrow certainly responds in the affirmative.
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3 Sep 09
Picturing taste
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Creative Economy
Photographer Stan Engelbrecht’s German language follow-up to the successful African Salad, Das is(s)t Deutschland was recently launched.
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1 Sep 09
Photos full of marvel
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Creative Economy
With barely a human subject in sight, Roger Ballen’s newest book, Boarding House, makes his oeuvre even more intangible.
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31 Aug 09
Get a handle on SA architecture
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
Professor ‘Ora Joubert has judiciously curated the 10 Years + 100 Buildings compendium to contemporary South South African architecture.
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18 Aug 09
Graphic novel goes down the gut
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
In Jesse Breytenbach’s graphic novel I Don’t Like Chocolate every story relates to food from a different slant.
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12 Aug 09
Green objectified
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
Going multidisciplinary, Green Design by Marcus Fairs is one of the first books to give a thorough overview of the burgeoning movement.
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11 Aug 09
Graphics beyond language
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
De Wereld Volgens Gorilla is an anthology of the best works that have appeared on the front page of De Volkskrant in Holland.
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28 Jul 09
Chic Afrique
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Music & Sound Design
In line with their exciting live performances, the packaging of Gazelle’s debut CD, Chic Afrique, is an experience.
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15 May 09
Koos
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Design Thinking
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Music & Sound Design
Legendary post-punk 1980s agitators, Koos’s iconic so-called “black tape” has been re-mastered, repackaged and re-released.
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15 May 09
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
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Music & Sound Design
Stefan Sagmeister designs the packaging for the collector's edition of David Byrne and Brian Eno's collaborative album.
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15 May 09
Big Idea
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Creative Economy
Big Idea, by Sandu Cultural Media, is a compilation of winning works from seven international design competitions.
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15 May 09
As We Like It
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
As We Like It, published by Arnoldsche, covers the past 20 years of teacher and student work at the Goldschmiedeschule mit Uhrmacherschule.
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15 May 09
Eye of the beholder
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Creative Economy
Miss Beautiful is a photographic investigation into South Africa’s pageants by Stan Engelbrecht, with supporting stories by Tamsen de Beer.
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15 May 09
Get green, already!
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
Going Green by Simon Gear obliterates all silly excuses for not making simple changes that will benefit you, the planet and your fellows.
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15 May 09
Inside today’s pantry
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Food Design
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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15 May 09
Can you taste when food is made with love?
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Food Design
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Creative Economy
Marije Vogelzang's debut monograph, Eat Love, poses some intriguing questions regarding food an the act of eating.
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15 May 09
The Interior World of Tom Dixon
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Product Design
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Creative Economy
The Interior World of Tom Dixon is an explosion of inspiring colours, textures and patterns, from Italian flooring to dried Korean fish.
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1 Feb 09
Bellville Rock City
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Music & Sound Design
The CD/DVD box set Bellville Rock City offers a veritable resource of profiles, music videos, tracks and documentary coverage.
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1 Feb 09
Pure not poor
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Industrial Design
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
“Pure design proposes a cocktail of sensations,” reads the introduction to Pure Design: Objects of Desire, published by Monsa.
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1 Feb 09
Not just an album design pioneer
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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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1 Feb 09
Doodle for a Difference
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Design Thinking
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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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1 Feb 09
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