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Eight ball bling
Design News
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Pretoria designer Louis Minnaar’s Phook rings and earrings are individually shaped from real pool balls.
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1 Feb 09
Suss’t: An alternative to mall culture
Do Tank News
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Craft
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Design Thinking
The KZNSA Gallery, in collaboration with Design Indaba, are presenting an exhibition of the best local sustainable design.
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1 Nov 08
Save the designer 5.5
Q&A
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Product Design
Anthony Lebossé of Paris’s 5.5 designers explains how they are undoing the very basis of their profession.
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1 Nov 08
DIY electronic eco-design?
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Design Thinking
Taking eco-design online will enable the creative collaboration on ideas necessary to shape the solutions to climate change.
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1 Nov 08
Yves is for the children
Design News
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Product Design
Los Angeles company, Y Water, is the first in a new category of super drinks engineered to ensure children's healthy growth.
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12 Aug 08
All that glitters
Hot Topic
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Product Design
Design Indaba asks four resident jewellery designers of Egoli, city of gold, to explain what's worth its weight in bling.
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1 Aug 08
Saffers hit Milan
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Product Design
Five Cape Town designers exhibited under the Italian Misael label during the Milan Furniture Fair.
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2 May 08
Creative Circle for Design Indaba
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Creative Economy
Design Indaba's recycled radio advert won first prize for best radio advert in the February Creative Circle awards.
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2 May 08
Digital is not the answer
Inside View
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Design Thinking
During Design Indaba 2008, Nat Hunter from Airside told us about her side project, Three Trees Don't Make A Forest.
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1 May 08
Design Indaba Expo: Newcomers set to delight visitors
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Architecture & Interiors
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Craft
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Design Thinking
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Design Indaba Expo, from February 23 to 26, 2008, pushes the boundaries of creative expression with some highly original new exhibitors.
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12 Feb 08
See what creativity can do
Festival News
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Architecture & Interiors
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Urban & Landscape Design
A round-up of highlights at the upcoming Design Indaba Conference and Expo 2008.
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1 Feb 08
My ekasi, my ekapa
Hot Topic
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Architecture & Interiors
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Product Design
Six of Cape Town's top designers tell Monique Pelser's lens what their favourite design in the Mother City is.
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1 Feb 08
Not out of the woods
Design News
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Design Thinking
Growing Materials, opening in January 2008 at the VIA in Paris, demonstrates new possibilities for using renewable materials.
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2 Nov 07
Flotsam and jetsam
Design News
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Design Thinking
Ryan Frank is repurposing the debris of the urban ocean into quirky eco-sensitive furniture.
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1 Aug 07
How many designers does it take to change the light?
Opinion
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Design Thinking
The visual icon of a bright idea, one of the most prevalent modern inventions, Thomas Edison’s lightbulb is long overdue for a makeover.
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1 Aug 07
Buying green back
Design News
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Design Thinking
Greening the shopping trolley is possibly the easiest place to start getting environmental.
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1 Aug 07
New old solutions
Design News
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Design Thinking
Despite his collection of restored Alvar Aalto furniture classics, Tom Dixon has no pretensions of getting green right just yet.
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1 Aug 07
Carpet bombing
Opinion
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Design Thinking
Traditional carpets are the equivalent of a layer of crude oil covering the floor. Rather keep the floor bare and get a mat.
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1 Aug 07
Sustainable = humanist
Opinion
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Industrial Design
Yves Béhar explains that usefulness and functionality are not the same thing.
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1 Aug 07
Waste not want not
Opinion
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Even superficial changes to the production, material, care methods and end-of-life scenario of fashion do have environmental benefit.
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1 Aug 07
Don't call me babe
Design News
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Design Thinking
It may look cute and cuddly, but it's one of the planet's worst poo-llutants.
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1 Aug 06
Oog on Droog
Design News
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Craft
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Focusing on Droog's eco explorations proves that the Dutch design collective's fountain of good ideas never runs dry.
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1 Aug 06
Our products manifesto
Design News
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Craft
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Design Thinking
KEAG's Ilithalomsa project evolves the litter that gets washed up on our beaches into desirable sculptures and homeware products.
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1 Aug 06
My furniture manifesto
Design Frontiers
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Craft
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
Haldane Martin's pieces say a lot about their creator. Here, their creator says a lot about his pieces.
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1 Aug 06
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