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Milestones and goalposts

Design News • 8 Jun 10

In soccer "own goal" refers to a mistake but in a new visual art exhibition, it is the process of realising personal objectives. >
Ineke Hans asks "Where to From Here?"

Talks • Duration: 00:39:33 • 8 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

Ineke Hans looks at the future of playing and asks, "Where to from here, designers?" >
Fashionable football fever

Design News • 7 Jun 10

SA Fashion Week are adding glitz and glamour to the World Cup with their range of soccer-inspired clothes and accessories. >
Young and grey

Design News • 7 Jun 10

Maarten Baas’s latest solo exhibition, Grey Derivations, deploys grey and red pigmented resin on a steel frame. >
Writing on trees

Design News • 7 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

Random words carved into oak wood pillars in a library? Is it vandalism or an innovative form of public art? >
Shigeru Uchida on the power of weakness

Talks • Duration: 00:41:14 • 4 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

Weakness is part of design as much as it is part of human nature. >
5.5 Designers on sustaining great design

Talks • Duration: 00:45:13 • 4 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

5.5 designers talks about a product's lifecycle and ways in which design can intervene to make it more sustainable. >
AdamsMorioka: what lies beneath

Talks • Duration: 00:43:02 • 4 Jun 10

AdamsMorioka reveal what lies beneath the slick, ultra-cool veneer of designers. >
Stephen Burks recycles to inspire

Talks • Duration: 00:30:22 • 4 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

For Stephen Burks, design is about making things that can have a special connection to people. >
Magnetic trailer park attraction

Design News • 4 Jun 10

There aint nothing trashy about Grolsch’s magnetic Airstream in the Old Mac Daddy rural trailer park in the beautiful Elgin Valley. >
No tick, no tock

Design News • 3 Jun 10

The Qlocktwo clock has neither hands nor numbers, but it's super-slick and rather chic. >
The final countdown

Design News • 3 Jun 10

With days to go until the “greatest show on earth”, David Watson of Trebleseven has released a funky World Cup calendar poster. >
Li Edelkoort presents a future past

Design News • 2 Jun 10

A new generation of designers have emerged who are designing with greater freedom and are looking to the past to create for the future. >
Modular graphics

Design News • 2 Jun 10

The Biennale of Sydney is one of the most exciting things that happen down-under, not least because of Jonathan Barnbrook. >
The future is entertaining

Reviews • 2 Jun 10

Futuretainment by Mike Walsh is a look at the world’s continuously changing technological landscape and the increased connectivity. >
Switched on competition

Design News • 2 Jun 10

Eskom is calling on student and professional designers to help save the planet, one CFL at a time. >
Alternative imaginations

Talks • 2 Jun 10 • Sponsored Content

Design is about love, not money, and believing in the potential of design being something for the whole world. >
Leather satchels and literacy

Design News • 2 Jun 10

From fashion to literacy, local fashion design studio Black Coffee are exploring ways to promote literacy through fashion. >
Egyptian creativity on the design map

Design News • 2 Jun 10

The +20 Egypt Design installation in Cairo this week will fuse local and international design. >
Ice-cream sticks to lower unemployment

Design News • 1 Jun 10

Job creation through participatory design could help to lower unemployment and support sustainability, says design student Chad Peterson. >
Three little pigs

Design News • 1 Jun 10

Fitment, stuffed toy, luxury good, sculpture, gym equipment or just plain pig? The good thing is that it doesn't really matter. >
Exhibitor success story: Tiffany Marx

Design News • 31 May 10 • Sponsored Content

From simple gold rings and leather bangles, to elaborate diamond earrings and platinum watches, Tiffany Marx can complete any outfit. >
Versatile Velcro

Design News • 31 May 10

Velcro has been used in everything from heart surgery to nuclear power plants and disposable nappies. Rachel O’Neill brings it to design. >
Exhibitor success story: User Design

Design News • 30 May 10 • Sponsored Content

As the world lifts itself from the rubble left by the economic downturn, design is taking a new turn and looking to new inspiration. >

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