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Julia Hasting: The unusual book designer
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Product Design
Julia Hasting, creative director of Phaidon Press, has designed books that come vacuum packed like ham and doodled all over like a student notebook.
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11 Dec 15
Alex Atala
Alex Atala is an acclaimed Brazilian chef whose work is concerned with traditional Brazilian cuisine, using native ingredients.
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6 Feb 13
Step-by-step with Ferran Adrià
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Food Design
Now you don't need to be a gastronomic guru to cook with Ferran Adrià. The top chef's The Family Meal takes you through it step-by-step.
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23 May 12
The bull is not dead
Q&A
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Food Design
Although the elBulli restaurant has closed, Ferran Adrià is only just getting started. He talks to us about the future, broadening his audience and creativity.
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16 Nov 11
Food fight: Vince Frost
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Food Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost.
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15 Nov 11
Ricky Burdett at Open Book
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Design Thinking
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
Professor Ricky Burdett talks about Living in the Endless City, a book that gives a comprehensive overview of contemporary urbanism.
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29 Sep 11
Endlessly urban
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Design Thinking
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Urban & Landscape Design
Living in the Endless City is a comprehensive look at the challenges facing the city of the 21st century.
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19 Sep 11
Mind Over Matter
Design News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
An exhibition at Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Alan Fletcher on the 10th anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways.
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16 Aug 11
Harry Pearce on useful uselessness in graphic design
Talks
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Conundrums, dreams and fluttering butterflies. Harry Pearce talks about his graphic design process.
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7 Jul 11
Question mark
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Creative Economy
What is your guiltiest pleasure? Have you had any homosexual experiences? Are you a racist? Do you believe in the death penalty?
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29 May 11
Animation overload
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If you’re a manga or anime fan you’re in for a delight. Or probably rather an emotion more akin to complete indulgence, you get the idea.
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27 May 11
Famous food
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Food Design
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Creative Economy
Reinventing Food tells the story of Ferran Adrià's rise from dishwasher to world-famous gastronomic maestro.
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9 Feb 11
Heath Nash + Hella Jongerius
Dialogues
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Craft
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Product Design
From the icy global hub of Berlin in Germany and the sunny backwaters of Coffee Bay in South Africa, Hella Jongerius and Heath Nash met on Skype.
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1 Feb 11
Francis Kéré
Diébédo Francis Kéré is an architect from Burkina Faso. The focus of Kéré’s drafts are climatic adaptation, low building costs and self building.
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14 Dec 10
Journey through Jo'Burg
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Creative Economy
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Urban & Landscape Design
Jo'burg is a place of harsh contrasts and with fast pace. But it's also full of hidden treasures, as the Wallpaper* guide points out.
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24 Sep 10
The Republic of Cape Town
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Creative Economy
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Graphic Design & Illustration
It’s a local joke that Cape Town is a republic of its own. The Wallpaper* City Guide gives some hints as to why.
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4 Aug 10
The future is entertaining
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Creative Economy
Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity.
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2 Jun 10
Inevitable architectural change
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Architecture & Interiors
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Creative Economy
An up-to-the-minute commentary on contemporary architecture examining the changing innovations by the world's leading architects.
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12 Feb 10
Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius is an internationally celebrated contemporary product designer, born in the Netherlands.
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10 Feb 09
Dutch treat
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Industrial Design
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Product Design
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Design Thinking
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Four internationally renowned speakers at the Design Indaba 2007 share Dutch roots and an eye for design.
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1 Feb 07
The art of looking sideways
Do Tank News
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Design Indaba magazine pays tribute to graphic design guru Alan Fletcher.
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1 Nov 06
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