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Web & Website Design Agency: {*}Redshift Digital, Award Winning Web & Website Design, South Africa
Editorial

What started as an opportunity to celebrate design and to fasttrack South Africa’s readmission into the global marketplace, has evolved into a vanguard that goes way beyond the flagship event at the end of February. It has become a 24/7/365 obsession that aims to grow the creative industries in South Africa and now...

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Hyper Designer

Karim Rashid is truly a citizen of the world. Born in Cairo of English and Egyptian parents, he was raised in Canada, studied postgraduate design in Naples, Italy, and today runs his own practice in New York City.

He has won multiple awards for his designs of everything from...

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Forces Favourites

It is said that the real era of south african posters began in the 1980s, a fact largely Attributed to the formation of the screen printing project.

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Another Kind of Logic

And the way we tend to reason it out, at least in our day-to-day lives, is to use either inductive or deductive arguments.

For those of you lacking the finer points of education (like me), I've boned up on this subject. Inductive reasoning is...

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Cape Town DC

David Carson is a key figure in recent graphic design history. Responsible for The End of Print, his chaotic experiments with design articulated the zeitgeist of a generation and defined a new benchmark by which all future visual experimentation will be judged.

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Mary, Mary, Quite Conversant
Mary Lewis, Creative Director of Lewis Moberly in Britain, speaks on design like the savant she is. And we at Design Indaba will celebrate her work at next February's banner event.

Mary is a recipient of the British Design & Art Direction President's Award in 2001 for Outstanding Contribution to Design and her numerous awards include...

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Identity Crisis

The early 1990s saw the South African wine industry undergo a radical restructuring of activities. Political transformation enabled a return to the international market, and red wine was enjoying a boom because of its newly discovered health-giving properties. At the time, however, South African vineyards were very much skewed towards producing white-wine varieties.

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Design Indaba Goes Dutch

The International Design Indaba hosted three Design Indaba Workshops in Pretoria, Bloemfontein and Stellenbosch in September this year.

The aim of the workshops is to inspire and educate design students across the country, ultimately promoting the economic growth of the creative industries by preparing them for the "real" world...

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Design Indaba Expo

There's a collective murmur going on about this light tip of the African continent. Early adopters are setting their cool compasses on South Africa and declaring it the next big thing. Li Edelkoort and Sir Terence say they'd move here if they were younger.

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