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Fashion & Jewellery Design
The new “O” watch by Issey Miyake reflects the environmental surroundings of the wearer.
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12 May 11
Flexible flux at Milan2011
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It has an unconventional look and is available in a variety of bright colours. The foldable Flux Chair is one that you want in your garden.
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6 May 11
Coca-Cola upcycling
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Upcycling has never been as attractive as Coca-Cola is making the versatile 111 Navy Chair®.
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3 May 11
Uncontained plastic at Milan2011
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Moving away from the “container” look of moulded furniture, Ron Arad has created the Raviolo chair for Magis.
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30 Apr 11
Many styles in one
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The Melissa + Gaetano Pesce Shoe offers the wearer seven different styles, all in one shoe.
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26 Apr 11
Tricks and treats at Milan2011
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Furniture company Royal Ahrend will be presenting two new projects by Ineke Hans and Yuya Ushida at Ventura Lambrate in Milan.
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2 Apr 11
Green points for Pepsi
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PepsiCo have developed the world’s first 100% plant-based, fully renewable PET bottle.
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17 Mar 11
Curious treasures
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Craft
Nic Fredman uses a great variety of reworked recycled materials to make interesting creations.
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25 Feb 11
Twitter lights!
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The Twitter Ball raises awareness about plastic waste in the ocean, using Twitter to highlight the cause.
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16 Feb 11
Dirk Vander Kooij
Dirk Vander Kooij is a product designer, best known for using recycled plastic from old refrigerators to create a range of chairs.
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6 Feb 11
Heath Nash + Hella Jongerius
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Craft
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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
From trash to treasure
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Unique-Eco uses the trash they collect on the shoreline of Kenya to make bright and beautiful sculptures and accessories.
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28 Jan 11
Plastic goes on
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A creative process that gives discarded plastic a second life is always welcome, like Dirk van der Kooij's Endless range of chairs.
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8 Dec 10
Heath Nash on sustainability within design
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Design Thinking
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Plastic waste + hands + geometry = beautiful objects + employment, a system that Heath Nash has refined using other people's rubbish.
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25 Nov 10
Saving our seas
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A brilliant initiative by Electrolux is using plastic debris salvaged from the ocean to create sustainable vacuum cleaners.
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30 Oct 10
Detract from doom
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Interaction Design
The Ars Electronica 2010 festival considered the world's impending doom and examined some of the innovative alternatives.
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21 Sep 10
Feelings in plastic
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Mbongeni Buthelezi's latest exhibition of melted plastic "paintings" explore the feelings that have characterised his life.
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5 Sep 10
Happy feet
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Good news for eco-conscious parents! Woolies have launched a new range of super cute children’s shoes made from recycled materials.
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9 Jul 10
Baby monitor wins SABS
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Industrial Design
Cape Town product development consultancy ...XYZ, scoop three awards at the SABS Design Excellence Awards for mobile baby monitor, SNUZA.
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25 Mar 10
New made rubbish
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Design Indaba Expo 2010: Over the past year Heath Nash has been focusing on using plastic waste in new ways.
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1 Feb 10
Respect cheap design
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Product Design
Renowned Catalan designer Martí Guixé makes three new additions to his ongoing series of “statement chairs”.
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2 Nov 09
Stephen Burks answers all at DI2009
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Craft
Design Indaba 2009 was not Stephen Burks’s first visit to South Africa.
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16 Mar 09
Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius is an internationally celebrated contemporary product designer, born in the Netherlands.
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10 Feb 09
Exquisite scales
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Commonwealth is uncovering a new kind of beauty by reapplying architectural rigour to smaller scale cross-disciplinary design.
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1 Nov 08
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