Celebrating and exploring architecture’s relationship with the diverse cultures and contemporary conditions of South Africa … A week of exhibitions, performances, films and multi-disciplinary conferences. Bringing architecture back to the public domain. Architecture ZA 2010 is set to become Africa’s premier urban culture festival as it brings together leading-edge thinkers and multi-disciplinary practitioners from [...]

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3 COPIES Skill Set 1 UP FOR GRABS - to enter the readers’ competition in the Design Indaba magazine please leave a comment below.

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David Krut has been invited to make a presentation as part of the Pecha Kucha programme on Friday 27 February (5-6pm) at Design Indaba 2009. David will be talking about DKP and its activites alongside highly regarded local designers. Pecha Kucha, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as [...]

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Art and Justice: The Art of the Consitutional Court of South Africa has been selected as one of 13 finalists in the “Most Beautiful Object in South Africa” competition. Other finalists include: Chrysanthemum Centrepiece, by Nomili (Michaella Janse van Vuuren) Ribbon Plate, by Kendal Warren Ceramics (Kendal Warren) Pretty Filly Bench, by Koop Design (Richard Stretton) [...]

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Skill Set 1 – Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design has been selected as a finalist in the SOUTH competition, and will be featured in the SOUTH exhibition held at the Design Indaba Expo (27/02 – 01/03/09). SOUTH is an inversion of hand-me-down Eurocentric creativity, a world map turned upside down conceptually, [...]

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                DKP participated in the Design Indaba Expo (27 February - 1 March) at the Cape Town International Convention Centre for the second time. The Design Indaba always presents a wonderful networking opportunity, and many ideas for further publishing and film projects on contemporary design in South Africa were explored.  DESIGN INDABA ACTIVITIES DKP [...]

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It is not often that graphic design is exhibited in a gallery space, but the overwhelmingly positive response to the opening of Drawing Show at David Krut Projects (DKP) proves that design fits comfortably alongside ‘fine art’ in the canon of contemporary visual culture. The opening attracted not only interested buyers and curious eyes, but also numerous insiders from the local design industry.

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Adbusters is a critical assessment of contemporary culture. Contentious and divisive issues are brought to a head by academics, artists and free-lance journalists. Issue 77 deals with rampant consumerism that manifests itself in the general public reflexively purchasing products unnecessarily in order to fill emotional voids within.   Adbusters challenges advertisers’ tendency to create false [...]

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Verbalising the Visual: Translating art and design into words is an academic publication, which avoids the labels of textbook or ‘how to’ manual. Aimed at undergraduate students of visual culture studies, the book aims to provide a guide to efficiently expressing a visual experience in words.

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  Lürzer’s Archive Specials publish headturning international work from those areas of graphic design in which groundbreaking trends first see the light of the day: music, packaging design, catalogs & brochures, commercial illustration, and photography.

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