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Art funds libraries
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Cape Town's Jupiter Drawing Room agency generate funds for the South African Mobile Libraries Association.
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14 May 09
Friends of Ruth Prowse
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Design Thinking
Help raise funds for disadvantaged students to attend Ruth Prowse School of Art by creating a small art work before 8 June.
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14 May 09
As deep as it gets
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Art & Photography
Designer Richard Hart has created recesses of kindness in his first art exhibition.
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2 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
SOUTH legends
Do Tank News
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Creative Economy
The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.
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7 Apr 09
SOUTH awards announcement
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Creative Economy
The SOUTH exhibition, competition and film is a celebration of the new creative ethos that has emerged in South Africa over the past decade.
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27 Mar 09
Design Indaba Expo
Design Indaba Expo (2004 to 2015) was Africa's biggest showcase of creativity under one roof. Visit www.designindaba.com/festival to see what's in its place.
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1 Feb 09
Top SA industrial design
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Industrial Design
A total of 14 of South Africa’s top product designs were recognised with SABS Design Excellence Awards in 2008.
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1 Feb 09
All hail Gazelle!
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Music & Sound Design
Better known as post-Afro dictator-dance act Gazelle, artist Xander Ferreira is extending his theatrical persona into the gallery.
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1 Feb 09
Dreaming in kid-colour
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Michelle Matthews, curator at Curious, Whetstone and Frankley, writes about child-friendly graphic design.
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1 Feb 09
10x10 finalist for Brit Insurance design
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Product Design
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Interaction Design
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Urban & Landscape Design
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Design Activism
What do 5.5’s Clean, IDEO’s Aqueduct Concept Bicycle, Kenya Hara’s Designing Design book and the 10x10 Project all have in common?
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1 Feb 09
Rex shows at the World Bank
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Creative Economy
The work of dynamic Jo’burg design studio Rex showed as part of the World Bank Art Programme’s Africa Now! exhibition in Washington.
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1 Feb 09
Loeries makes its new nest in Cape Town
Design News
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Creative Economy
South African advertising awards, the Loeries have announced that the 2009 event will take place in Cape Town from 25 to 27 September.
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1 Feb 09
An exhibition of Suss'tainble design
Do Tank News
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Design Thinking
Presented by the KZNSA Gallery in partnership with Design Indaba.
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17 Nov 08
Waste worthy of art
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Craft
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Design Thinking
The Wasted exhibition, at Johannesburg’s Unity Gallery, emphasised the beauty of the art and technical skill, instead of the materials used.
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1 Nov 08
Draw and draw again
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Graphic Design & Illustration
The art of putting pen to paper has been celebrated by two recent exhibitions in Gauteng, Justified Jotting and Drawing Show in Jo'burg.
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1 Nov 08
SA: The US of Africa
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Durban-based graphic designer Garth Walker has created a politically incorrect new exhibition for the Saint-Etienne Design Biennale.
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1 Nov 08
The gospel truth
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Product Design
Matali Crasset's new project In Vino Veritas, about wine, is showing at the Gandy Gallery in Slovakia.
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1 Nov 08
Not quite Discovery Channel
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Architecture & Interiors
The Sex Lives of Animals is the first natural history exhibition in the US to explore non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals.
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1 Nov 08
X-rated peace and diversity
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A KZNSA Gallery exhibition by Cameron Platter, recreating a sculpture studio, in which the public is invited to participate with artists.
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1 Nov 08
Durban design headed for Berlin
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Durban's artSPACE gallery hosted the second annual Bigwood exhibition during July, featuring more than 40 designers.
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12 Aug 08
But sausages grow on trees?
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Food Design
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Architecture & Interiors
Marije Vogelzang’s first solo exhibition, Fuel, at Mama in Rotterdam from May 21 to July 6 included cuddly sausages.
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12 Aug 08
Design votes out Mugabe
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Exiled Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai showed a series of agitprop prints in his show One Vote at Dokter and Misses, Johannesburg.
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1 Aug 08
Fashion tips for superheroes
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Creative Economy
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy exhibition explored comic book characters and fashion, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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19 Jun 08
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