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The optimist on the designer optimised
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Industrial Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
Richard Seymour and Dick Powell have arguably done more than any of their UK peers to further the cause of good design.
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1 May 05
Where black and white melted into brown
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Creative Economy
Those seven days spent in South Africa, I rarely heard the word "apartheid", unless I spoke it myself.
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1 May 05
Digital designers square up for New Media Awards
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1 May 05
Sculpting the Land
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Design Thinking
These works can only exist because of the landscape that they have been sculpted in; they become "site specific".
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1 Feb 05
Digital designers square up for CNMA
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Interaction Design
South Africa's most talented digital designers are vying for the chance to spend a week at London multimedia house Poke.
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1 Feb 05
Zest for Life
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Product Design
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Craft
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Design Thinking
An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London.
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1 Feb 05
Workshop with Oscar Pena
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
In the assignment plus ONE minus ONE, the aim was to change one aspect of an existing product.
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1 Nov 04
Future perfect
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Product Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK), writes about the architectural achievements of Jan Kaplicky and Amanda Levete.
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1 Nov 04
Workshop with Ilse Crawford
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Interaction Design
Invent, design and present an African feast that is not just visual but engages all the senses. What does Africa feel like?
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1 Nov 04
Workshop with Malcom Garret
Inside View
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The question most frequently asked concerned how from my experience, I thought this group of students compared to others in the UK.
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1 Nov 04
Ambiguity and truth
Opinion
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Milton Glaser writes about the complexities behind making communication clear and effective.
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1 Aug 04
Contradiction
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Jonathan Ford, Pearlfisher creative partner, writes about the challenges of packaging design.
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1 Aug 04
From the archives: Workshop with Paula Scher
Inside View
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The assignment required the attendees to create or define a business or organisation.
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1 Aug 04
Avant garden
Opinion
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Urban & Landscape Design
Spring has sprung in the UK and Dan Pearson is busy, writes Lynda Relph-Knight.
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1 May 04
Construction New Media Awards 2004
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CNMA judges Tom Roope, Patrick Burgoyne and Andries Odendaal share their thoughts.
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1 May 04
Africa welcomes Kenya
Opinion
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Kenya Hara is a design icon. His work is deeply rooted in Japanese culture, where he has spearheaded the image of many global events.
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1 Feb 04
Past, present, future in design
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Craft
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
Design as we currently understand and practise it is being radically changed on several levels, writes Prof John Heskett.
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1 Nov 03
Forces favourites
Opinion
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Design Activism
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Graphic Design & Illustration
It is said that the real era of SA posters began in the 1980s, a fact largely attributed to the formation of the Screen Printing Project.
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1 Aug 03
Another kind of logic
Opinion
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Architecture & Interiors
I've been thinking of how to have an argument. No, not the kind where you say "Get out of my way".
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1 Aug 03
Identity crisis
Opinion
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Creative Economy
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Food Design
Is the South African wine industry managing to convey a compelling sense of self to the outside world?
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1 Aug 03
Life And Debt
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1 May 03
Cultural zoos for the new millennium?
Opinion
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
In another seventy years or so, the most remarkable feature of the new millennium will be the appearance of the first "culture zoos".
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1 May 03
Who's food is this?
Opinion
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Food Design
Hardy McQueen makes the case for indigenous cuisine.
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1 May 03
On the geometric designs of the Basotho called Litema
Inside View
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Design Thinking
Rudi de Lange writes about the mural art of the Basotho in the Free State and Lesotho regions.
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1 May 03
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