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Dokter’s orders
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Johannesburg-based multidisciplinary product-design company Dokter and Misses’ latest collection is functional art.
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9 Sep 22
Dokter and Misses on bringing their weird dream to life on stage
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African Design
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Craft
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Creative Economy
The design duo, along with their collaborators, ensured this year's Design Indaba Conference opening talk was a theatrical feat.
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1 Aug 17
Design duo Dokter and Misses about the importance of the aesthetic function of products they create
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“Aesthetic fuction is more important. How we designed what you don’t see,” on their wildly popular LALA Surma drinks cabinet.
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31 Jul 17
Dokter and Misses and their Weird Dream at the Design Indaba Conference
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African Design
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Product Design
Dokter and Misses and their friends take us on a surreal journey with their multi-disciplinary presentation.
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1 Mar 17
Dokter and Misses to create a "Weird Dream" at Design Indaba 2017
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African Design
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Dokter and Misses are planning to bring their work to life at Design Indaba Conference 2017 in a multi-sensory, multi-disciplinary performance piece.
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20 Jan 17
Dokter and Misses
Husband and wife team Dokter and Misses is a multidisciplinary design company based in Johannesburg.
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13 Dec 16
MBOISA: West African patterning meets sculptural furniture design
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African Design
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Product Design
Dokter and Misses’ Kassena Town Cabinets echo the traditional architecture and striking graphic artwork of the Kassena people.
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11 Jan 16
Southern Guild at Design Miami/Basel 2015
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The South African gallery Southern Guild has put together a collection that bristles with raw texture.
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5 Jun 15
Focus on: South African designers working in wool
Focus On
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
It’s Wool Week in Cape Town! We round up five recently launched designs that explore the tactile possibilities of this natural fibre.
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12 Apr 15
Kassena Town by Dokter and Misses
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African Design
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Product Design
Dokter and Misses’ new range of storage pieces is a further exploration of West African Kassena architecture.
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17 Mar 15
5 favourites at the new Southern Guild gallery
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African Design
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Product Design
There's a new kid on the block in Woodstock's burgeoning art and design precinct that specialises in limited-edition South African design.
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29 Nov 14
Internet inspiration: Threat or enabler?
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
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Product Design
Lazy man's library or a window onto the world? Four South African creatives tell us whether the internet stymies or aids their creative process.
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29 Oct 14
Veld couch and Pebble Stool by Dokter and Misses
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African Design
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Product Design
Dokter and Misses are on a collab kick – this time with renowned felt artist Ronel Jordaan.
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11 Aug 14
Soldier Screens by Dokter and Misses and Gone Rural.
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Product Design
Dokter and Misses collaborates with Gone Rural to create a new partition screen system.
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11 Aug 14
Katy Taplin
Katy Taplin, one half of the creative duo Dokter and Misses, is the curator for the Furniture and Homeware sector at Design Indaba Expo 2015.
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17 Jul 14
A winning trophy
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South African design duo Dokter and Misses creates a striking new MTV Africa Music Awards trophy.
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7 Jun 14
2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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The complete list of finalists for the 2014 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa is revealed. Who will get your vote?
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29 Jan 14
Braai… Brixton-style
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Product Design
Artist Zander Blom and designer Adriaan Hugo have together created the braai of all braais, “Die Laaste Braai”.
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17 May 10
New adventures in retail
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Two independent Cape Town design stalwarts, whatiftheworld and Stiaan Louw have responded to the retail call of Johannesburg.
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18 Nov 09
Administer design daily
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Product Design
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Design duo Dokter and Misses are set up shop in Brixton with their cardboard handbags and heavy metal bling.
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16 Nov 09
Gregor Jenkin comes out tops
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Product Design
Gregor Jenkin was chosen winner in the design category of the South Africa's Celebrating Strides awards.
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25 Aug 09
Design Indaba Magazine goes Afrolectric
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"The idea of being African is like trying to be rock'n'roll," says Spoek Mathambo in the newest edition of Design Indaba magazine.
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20 Aug 09
The indigenous style
Design News
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Product Design
Design duo Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin are designing a cross-cultural commonality through abstraction.
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1 Aug 09
Interversion
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Givan Lötz seeks to blur the line between design craft and contemporary fine art.
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1 Aug 09
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