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Eco Design Uncovered: Avant Garde object Week 2

We are now in Week 2 of the competition and are seeing see some of the eco designs starting to take shape in the students storyboards below. Some are becoming quite obvious as to what the final designs will be, others still remain a bit of a mystery!

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Going for Green: The London 2012 Olympics

Reducing your impact on the environment is an increasingly important part of bidding to host international events like the Olympics. WWF, for example, has been assessing the Olympics games since the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the NGO rates everything…

Cape Town officially WDC 2014

Cape Town joined an exclusive club of four when it signed the official host city agreement for World Design Capital 2014. Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille and Soon-in Lee, the president of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), did the honours on Friday, 28 June.

Avant Garde 2012

Avant Garde, Live Eco´s upcycled fashion project, is underway for a second season. Together with the Design Academy of Fashion, Live Eco will be presenting an upcycled fashion show, proudly sponsored by Pick n Pay & The Body Shop, at The Green Expo at the CTICC on 24 November 2012.

46664 Winter 2012: The Fighter

A couple of weeks ago we were invited to the 46664 winter launch at the Brand ID offices in Cape Town. For those of you who don’t know, 46664 – four, double six, six four – was the prison number given to Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned for life in 1964. Not only is it a significant number but

Harness the hair trends of 2012

The best hair trends of 2011 are being reworked and tweaked for the 2012 spring season and the name of the number one trend is “iconic revival”. Most of the hairstyles that are coming off the runways and magazine pages are modernistic and evolutionary, while still remaining traditional and classic.