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Looks like Lego
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Flussocreativo's Leco containers look like giant Lego blocks. They're ideal for sorting your recycling.
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21 Nov 11
Flash furniture
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The Crates is a collection of mobile furniture, ideal for the modern urbanite.
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19 Nov 11
Able to flip
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Now it's a stool, now it's a rocking chair, the Flip series of chairs turn into dual-function seating by simply flipping it.
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17 Nov 11
& Sons.
& Sons. is a Durban-based freelance furniture and design studio run by Mike van Heerden.
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16 Nov 11
Sobeit Studio
Sobeit Studio's desire is "to make the ordinary obsolete" with a range of lifestyle and décor pieces from lighting and furniture to candles and jewellery.
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15 Nov 11
Food fight: Claire Renard
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Claire Renard of 5.5 designers argues that we’re constantly changing our minds about food.
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15 Nov 11
Beautiful boards
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Loyal Dean's longboards are inspired by shapes and forms found in nature and crafted using reclaimed lumber.
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15 Nov 11
Design Kist
Design Kist is a Cape Town-based surface and textile design studio specialising in custom surface patterns.
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14 Nov 11
High Thorn
Georgie Anderson's High Thorn designs and manufactures an exclusive range of handcrafted products with a safari-lodge aesthetic.
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14 Nov 11
Worthy creation
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Thomas Heatherwick has designed the furniture for the Worth Abbey Church in England, using solid American black walnut wood.
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11 Nov 11
Water wise
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Karim Rashid's colourful Bobble water jug is ideal for filtering water, it looks good and it's 100% recyclable.
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10 Nov 11
DIY wine making
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Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Sabine Marcelis created a system for making wine at home.
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9 Nov 11
Made to fit
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The Kickstand desk allows you to kill two birds with one stone - get your desk job done and keep fit.
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9 Nov 11
Food fight: Zoe Coombes
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Product designer and architect Zoe Coombes feels that food culture has a lot to teach other creative fields.
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8 Nov 11
Bare minimum
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Frank Tjepkema's Recession Chair is a designer response to current and looming economic issues.
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8 Nov 11
Health function
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Taking functional jewellery to a whole new level, Jawbone’s UP wristband helps you monitor your health.
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7 Nov 11
Looking swell
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An iPad case by Swell accessories with a bamboo and leather look is rather... well, swell.
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2 Nov 11
Publically functional
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The Western Cape Furniture Design Competition is calling on designers to create beautiful, functional public furniture pieces with alien wood.
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2 Nov 11
Modular makings
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The Clik Lamp and Treze Library bookshelf by Katarq encourages the user to interact with the products by easily assembling it.
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1 Nov 11
Critical mass
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What a mass! Ten designers considered the methods, material and manufacturing of mass production.
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31 Oct 11
Secret space
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Matali Crasset's Wigwam for flooring company Tarkett demonstrates the possibilities of flooring materials and colour.
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26 Oct 11
Yield the signs
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Discarded road traffic signs are given a second life by designer Boris Bally who turns it into bold and interesting furniture pieces.
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25 Oct 11
Etchings
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Tom Dixon's Etch candleholder casts a variety of gorgeously intricate shadows.
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23 Oct 11
Curiosity
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Maarten Baas’s The Curiosities of a Designer exhibition in Paris looks to the surreal and ways of story telling in design.
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23 Oct 11
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