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Birds of a feather

Design News • 13 Oct 11

Diamond magnate Laurence Graff has marked the maturation of the Delaire Graff Estate with an art installation of birds. >
Cultivated couture

Design News • 13 Oct 11

How about growing high-end fashion in your kitchen? Emily Crane's Micro-Nutrient Couture is exotic and edible. >
Green as glass

Design News • 13 Oct 11

Glasshouse is the ideal urban greenhouse, and it doubles up as a functional pendant lamp. >
Educational integration

Design News • 12 Oct 11

The Inkwenkwezi Secondary School in Du Noon township serves as a beacon of aspiration, highlighting the importance of education. >
Safe bike

Design News • 12 Oct 11

By locking the handlebars of a bicycle, the Senza bike lock system makes it virtually impossible to steal this friendly mode of transport. >
Infographic wine label

Design News • 12 Oct 11

The labels for the wines of an Australian winery feature an infograph with unique information about the vineyards, vintage conditions and ferments. >
Month ten

Design News • 11 Oct 11

The October Show at Salon91 in Cape Town presents the work of an all-male creative cast. >
Urban alternatives

Design News • 11 Oct 11

The Vertical Village looks at ways that East Asian cities may be able to expand and develop while maintaining traditional village qualities. >
Circular films

Design News • 10 Oct 11

The 360 Project uses 48 cameras, arranged in a circle, to explore the possibilities of combining stills and moving images. >
Collage paintings

Design News • 10 Oct 11

Micro Cluster Picnic is a collection of collage-like paintings by Asha Zero that interrogates the relationship between the real and the representation. >
Barbara Ciliers' typographical visual journey

Talks • Duration: 00:08:44 • 10 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Barbara Cilliers makes information design relevant in a South African context. >
Tradition & innovation

Design News • 10 Oct 11

An exhibition designed by Nendo at the Canadian Museum of Innovation explores the relationship between Japanese culture and design. >
Sandhya Lalloo on redefining fashion design

Talks • Duration: 00:07:32 • 10 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Sandhya Lalloo’s work looks at the spiritual experience of designing clothing. >
Lauren Mackler on stories and storytelling

Talks • Duration: 00:07:20 • 10 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

There are different artistic formats through which to tell stories in a visual way, discovers Lauren Mackler. >
Revital Cohen on how technology affects the human body

Talks • Duration: 00:07:19 • 10 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Revital Cohen considers how technology affects biology by focussing specifically on the human body. >
Letter forms

Design News • 10 Oct 11

ABC comes to life with Alphabet 2, a project that creates a stop-motion animation with each letter of the alphabet. >
Sustainable tower

Design News • 8 Oct 11

The Bionic Arch by Vincent Callebaut Architects proposes a multi-purpose sustainable tower for the Taichung Gateway City in Taiwan. >
Arno Mathies on luxury and industrial design

Talks • Duration: 00:07:07 • 7 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Arno Mathies talks about luxury, industrial design and the influences in his own work. >
Jon Stam: designing for and from personal memory

Talks • Duration: 00:07:30 • 7 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Jon Stam shares six projects he created that all have the common theme of “designing for and from personal memory”. >
School centre

Design News • 7 Oct 11

SAOTA's Mankgaile Primary School in Limpopo actively involved the community in the building of a school that also serves as a community centre. >
Imperial branding

Design News • 7 Oct 11

Hat-trick worked on the rebranding of the Imperial War Museum in the UK, aiming to make the visitor experience more engaging. >
Digital brawn smackdown

Design News • 6 Oct 11

Digital Edge Live on 14 October will see local mavericks debating the future of marketing and digital platforms. Bob Garfield delivers the keynote. >
Alarming relief

Design News • 6 Oct 11

Sales of Jasper Morrison's limited-edition red-and-white AC01 Punkt Alarm Clock to aid reconstruction of earthquake-affected Japan. >
Roger Smythe: imagining dreams and ideas into reality

Talks • Duration: 00:14:50 • 5 Oct 11 • Sponsored Content

Roger Smythe explains that when Masters and Savant Worldwide was established, they wanted to give both their clients and team an incredible experience. Roger Sm >

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