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Wire dressed up as lamb
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Craft
“Shepherd” Godza Mtizwa from Streetwires was spotted herding 200 life-sized sheep through the streets of Cape Town.
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2 Nov 07
Coming out in shells
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Avoova have installed a 7m-long ostrich eggshell mosaic that wraps around the Spier Hotel reception desk.
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2 Nov 07
Porcelain menagerie of memories
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Product Design
Ceramicist Frauke Stegmann’s Domestic Desire exhibition at the Bell-Roberts Gallery showed an inventory of reconstituted domestic objects.
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2 Nov 07
Hillbrow, London
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The Shared Talent Project saw crafters from Soweto and Hillbrow teamed with students from London College of Fashion.
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2 Nov 07
Crafting a difference
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Product developer Amanda Youngleson uses design to the development context of bad tools, poor skills, limited markets and deep poverty.
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2 Nov 07
Global Buyers Trek to Expo
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This year's Design Indaba Expo attracted a record 137 registered buyers, 66 of them international.
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1 May 07
Feast on design
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Food Design
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Graphic Design & Illustration
You’ll be feeding your mind and your imagination at Design Indaba Expo 2007, but you can also appease your appetite.
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19 Feb 07
Oog on Droog
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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
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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
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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
Rural renewal
Opinion
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Urban & Landscape Design
One way of halting urban expansion and migration from rural to urban areas, argues Carl Harrison, is through sustainable rural design.
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1 Aug 06
Growing up
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Urban & Landscape Design
Hear what the independent Design Indaba Expo curators have to say about this leading industry event.
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1 May 06
Gaining ground
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Each year the Design Indaba Conference gains impetus, assembling the world's most pioneering and perceptive minds.
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1 May 06
Hand in
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Graphic Design & Illustration
Award-winning author and illustrator Heather Moore gives us a hands-on approach to the modern-day affair with old-fashioned ways.
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1 May 06
Sold!
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
If cash is king, then the Design Indaba Expo 2006 will be a right royal affair, what with a record number of buyers due to attend.
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1 Feb 06
The bigger apple
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Craft
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Product Design
What happens when you take an African-American designer from New York to Africa for the first time and expect him to work with crafters?
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1 Nov 05
Exponential growth
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Craft
While the Design Indaba Conference talks the talk, the concurrent Expo walks the walk with a host of gorgeous local products.
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1 Aug 05
Notes from the Fashion Indaba
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
Twenty thousand jobs were lost in 2003, another estimated 16 000 more in 2004. South Africa's clothing and textile industry is in crisis.
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1 May 05
Zest for Life
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An extract from the text of Zest for Life: The Work of Fernando and Humberto Campana at the Design Museum, London.
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1 Feb 05
Fair play
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In Paris recently, Africa Fair presented their Fall/Winter 2005/06 collection.
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1 Feb 05
Get a piece of the action
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Craft
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
piece, a Johannesburg-based design organisation, will showcase the work of a number of talented crafters at the 2005 Design Indaba Expo.
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1 Feb 05
Expo report
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Architecture & Interiors
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
We called our first Expo article in Design Indaba magazine "Fringe benefits", so we had to ask some of our exhibitors to speak up on some.
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1 May 04
Past, present, future in design
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Creative Economy
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Design Thinking
Design as we currently understand and practise it is being radically changed on several levels, writes Prof John Heskett.
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1 Nov 03
Viva Afro Diva
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Fashion & Jewellery Design
In design terms, Afro Diva is the fashion equivalent of wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve.
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1 Nov 03
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