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Masashi Kawamura: Making new ways of making things
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Film & Animation
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Interaction Design
Masashi Kawamura is interested in designing new ways to design and experimenting with ways to combines technology and storytelling.
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4 Aug 13
Masashi Kawamura on doing different things with technology
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Film & Animation
“By making things differently you’ll get something different (no duh)”. Masashi Kawamura explains how this approach informs his creative work.
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1 Aug 13
Mike Kruzeniski: I want to change the entire culture of a company
Video Interviews
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Interaction Design
Head of design for Twitter, Mike Kruzeniski creates environments where designers can think big.
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21 Jun 13
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Brand Collaboration
Nicolas Roope: A respect and passion for clear storytelling
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Interaction Design
A Global Rich List for ordinary people and the world’s first designer energy-saving light bulb are just some of the work Nicolas Roope does.
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31 May 13
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Brand Collaboration
Nature verses science
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Art & Photography
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Interaction Design
Troika's first solo exhibition "The Far Side of Reason" combines new and old works to investigate the tension between perception and reality.
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24 Apr 13
Digital technology will continue to disappear – Alex Chen
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Music & Sound Design
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Product Design
Google Creative Lab creative director Alexander Chen explains to Dezeen how he created a digital string you can pluck like a viola.
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23 Apr 13
Christoph Niemann: Combining the expected and the unexpected in illustration
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Graphic Design & Illustration
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Interaction Design
“The idea is very simple: you can just touch things, and things will happen.” Christoph Niemann interacts with and discusses the Petting Zoo app.
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18 Apr 13
John Maeda: Creative people have to become more empowered leaders
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Design Thinking
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Information Design
John Maeda is continually trying to figure out how design, technology and the arts can intersect in meaningful ways.
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11 Apr 13
Futuristic Africa
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African Design
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Product Design
The past, present and future of African design is explored in the "Afrofuture" exhibition held during the 2013 Milan Furniture Fair.
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10 Apr 13
Graduates at Conference 2013
Design News
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Design Thinking
We look forward to welcoming top graduates from design schools across the globe as Pecha Kucha speakers to Design Indaba Conference 2013.
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1 Feb 13
Aaron Koblin: Open-sourcing as a toolkit
Video Interviews
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Interaction Design
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Music & Sound Design
Aaron Koblin talks about creating music videos for the web and other experimental and playful projects with Google.
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26 Oct 12
Dominic Harris: Lighting can transform mood
Video Interviews
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Product Design
“Lighting can transform the mood of a person,” says Dominic Harris. He believes in using lighting to achieve advanced effects.
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19 Oct 12
The Bionic Eye
FilmFestFriday
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Design Thinking
Dr Joseph Rizzo and Prof John Wyatt have pioneered a technology for restoring sight to patients who suffer from degenerative blindness.
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12 Oct 12
Yves Béhar: design is a generous endeavour
Video Interviews
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Design Thinking
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Product Design
For Yves Béhar design needs to focus on the person that will receive the experience of the product or system being designed.
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11 Oct 12
Benjamin Hubert on how materials and industrial processes shape his work
Video Interviews
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Industrial Design
The young but already prolific British designer talks us through five of his designs on show at Design Junction 2012.
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2 Oct 12
Carly Berger on sustainable housing solutions
Talks
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Architecture & Interiors
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Design Activism
Carly Berger investigates how green housing solutions can successfully be implemented in neighbourhoods.
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19 Sep 12
United Visual Artists on designing for emotional response
Talks
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Interaction Design
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Music & Sound Design
Inspired by the relationship between technology and nature, United Visual Artists design for an emotional response.
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6 Sep 12
Clive van Heerden on why design must ask more difficult questions of technology
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
Clive van Heerden believes that by asking really stupid questions you can produce really interesting results.
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22 Aug 12
Carlo Ratti & Assaf Biderman: Our world is starting to talk back to us
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
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Urban & Landscape Design
MIT SENSEAble City Lab director and associate director Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman look to the digital future of cities.
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5 Apr 12
Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin leads the Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative Lab and is famed for his work on "The Wilderness Downtown" and "The Johnny Cash Project".
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14 Feb 12
Eddie Opara
Eddie Opara is a multifaceted designer whose work encompasses strategy, design and technology, with interactive installations, websites and more.
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31 Jan 12
Daisy Ginsberg: Synthetic Biology
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Design Thinking
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Food Design
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Information Design
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Interaction Design
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg explores how synthetic biology and design can be utilised to do useful things, engineering a better future.
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17 Jan 12
Revital Cohen on how technology affects the human body
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Design Thinking
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Interaction Design
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Product Design
Revital Cohen considers how technology affects biology by focussing specifically on the human body.
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10 Oct 11
One x one
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Architecture & Interiors
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African Design
From Berlin to Burkina Faso, Francis Kéré is building a bridge using education, upliftment, local materials and energy efficiency.
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15 Aug 11
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