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Vespa Takeone Video Challenge
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
Enter the Vespa Takeone Video Challenge online now and stand a chance to win a new Vespa LX.
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18 Nov 09
State of Our Environment competition
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Design Thinking
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Design Thinking
Someone messing with your environment and you don’t know who to tell? Tell ACT about it in the State of Our Environment competition.
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7 Sep 09
Mingo Lamberti extends deadline
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Graphic Design & Illustration
7 September 2009 is the new deadline to submit entries for Mingo Lamberti's seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts.
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2 Sep 09
Mingo Lamberti: Made in China
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Craft
Mingo Lamberti are calling for entries for their seventh range of limited-edition T-shirts. Deadline: 31 August 2009.
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2 Aug 09
Prism awards to champion green design
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Architecture & Interiors
Architecture and design students are invited to enter the Plascon Prism awards before 29 May 2009.
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14 May 09
More than show
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Architecture & Interiors
Design Indaba Expo has come a long way since 2004, writes Lynda Relph-Knight, editor of Design Week (UK).
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1 May 09
Rockefeller Foundation co-sponsors Innovation Prize
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Design Thinking
The newly established African Carbon Trust seeks a South African company to match the Rockefeller Foundation's pledge towards innovation.
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14 Apr 09
Winners turn the table
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
The SOLVE 2008 design competition announced a three-way tie in their challenge to design an environmentally and culturally sensitive table.
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1 Feb 09
Design cul-cha
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Design Thinking
“Can design help us understand and appreciate our cultural diversity?” asked 2009’s Making the Difference Through Design competition.
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1 Feb 09
Frame the family tree
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Product Design
Carrol Boyes has announced the winners of her METAL 2008 New Designer Search, which was themed “Frame”.
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1 Feb 09
Cattle heads ceramics competition
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Craft
This year’s Corobrik National Ceramics Exhibition demanded “something beautiful” of participants, inspired by man's interaction with earth.
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1 Nov 08
Nampak packaging design challenge
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Nampak and Design Indaba invite professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to enter the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge
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1 Nov 08
Springleap vs Threadless
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Fundamentally showing that everyman can design, Springleap is more than just South Africa’s answer to Threadless.
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1 Nov 08
Western Cape Furniture Design Competition
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Product Design
The inaugural Western Cape Furniture Design competition has announced its theme: EAT. To inspire furniture design for eating environments.
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1 Nov 08
Art Vespa: Not for designosaurs
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Urban & Landscape Design
Art Vespa design competition calls for creative designs to decorate Three Vespa LX150s, one of which the winner gets in their own design.
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1 Nov 08
Design Indaba 10x10 solution wins $100 000 humanitarian design prize
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Design Thinking
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
MMA Architects have won the inaugural Curry Stone Design Prize for their solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Low-Income Housing project.
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10 Oct 08
Twee tees
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Graphic Design & Illustration
While T-shirt makers the world over are plying their wares virtually, Brad Hodgskiss is keeping Mingo Lamberti real.
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1 Aug 08
SABS Design Excellence Award scheme
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
South African product designers are invited to submit entries for the 2008 SABS Design Excellence Awards.
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2 May 08
Digital dandies
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Every year since 2001, the Construction New Media Awards has celebrated digital design innovators. The 2008 winners are...
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1 May 08
Carrol Boyes call for entries
Design News
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Product Design
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Craft
Carrol Boyes Functional Art (CBFA) has announced the theme for the Metal 2008 New Designer Search: "Frame".
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2 Feb 08
Art container
Design News
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Craft
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Architecture & Interiors
One hundred artworks have been chosen from the 2 147 entries submitted for the inaugural Spier Contemporary 2007 exhibition.
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15 Nov 07
Monument to the now
Design News
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Architecture & Interiors
The OpenThinkBox: TimePod 2007 design competition captured the imagination of architects around the world.
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2 Nov 07
Volume control
Design News
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
At Tokyo Design Week PearsonLloyd, the design studio founded by Tom Lloyd and Luke Pearson, presented two new ranges.
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2 Nov 07
Mechanical magic
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
A winner has been chosen for Big Blue’s 2006 Makhulu Polane design competition.
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1 Feb 07
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