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Found Shopping app goes live at Design Indaba

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 08:26:00 +0200

A new local app, Found Shopping, went live over the weekend at Design Indaba, allowing hundreds of people to share and discover the best buys around them.
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[Design Indaba 2013] David Adjaye shines the light

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:09:00 +0200

Back on the Design Indaba stage after seven years, David Adjaye shared his story ... born in Dar es Salaam to a diplomat father, he was brought up to be a professional in the world. Since his 2006 appearance on the DI stage, he has documented the architecture of every city in Africa "to figure out what the continent means".
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[Design Indaba 2013] Design in context (part II)

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 08:37:00 +0200

Stuck away at the far end of Africa, Design Indaba provides some much-needed perspective on our craft. Nothing replenishes a jaded inspiration better than an annual shot of pure cultural energy from New York's design elite.
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[Design Indaba 2013] Design in context (part I)

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 09:44:00 +0200

Context could be said to have emerged as an underlying theme of day two of Design Indaba 2013, currently in progress at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC).
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[Design Indaba 2013] Music of the spheres

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:36:00 +0200

The human UI (or the interface where the human body meets machine) made quite a few appearances on the first day of the 2013 Design Indaba Conference currently underway at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC). [video]
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[Design Indaba 2013] Brave new design world

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:30:00 +0200

The last week in February has become synonymous with the Design Indaba Conference, the event held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) as an annual showcase for the superheroes of global design thinking.
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Vote now for 2013 Most Beautiful Object

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:49:00 +0200

The Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA) 2013 finalists have been nominated by a mix of design journalists and cultural commentators in South Africa.
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Sir John Hegarty at Sunday Times' Design Indaba dinner

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 07:24:00 +0200

Sir John Hegarty, international advertising icon, has been secured by the Sunday Times as guest speaker at an intimate dinner to be hosted for the creative heads of SA's most successful agencies, next week. The dinner celebrates the 'coming-together' of the advertising industry during the annual Design Indaba, held in Cape Town from 27 February to 1 March 2013.
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Design Indaba, shaping innovation, creativity

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:55:00 +0200

Design Indaba, 27 February to 3 March 2013 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), is ready to shape thinking in a combination of design, innovation and creativity in the conference and expo as a one-stop design portal for the highly curated, bespoke multimedia content that is bread and butter to the global creative industries.
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A host of musical experiences at Design Indaba 2013

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 09:49:00 +0200

There will be a host of musical experiences at the 2013 Design Indaba, to be held from 27 February to 1 March, 2013, at a variety of venues. There will be 32 artists and 10 shows at eight venues in what the organisers are describing as "a musical tour" of Cape Town.
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