Pasting for BOZZA
by Samora Chapman Shani Judes, a Cape Town based art agent/curator has recently been slipping through borders. Traversing the entire country, pasting portraits all over Azania’s most renowned townships. If Shani were a street artist, I reckon she’d be king. But the nationwide campaign wasn’t a quest to get her name up. It was a guerrilla ad campaign for a new creative platform... Read More
Shit is trending at Design Indaba
by Nadine Botha “Do shit that matters,” declared Bielenberg in the second presentation of Design Indaba 2012. His sentiments echoing the closing refrain of last year’s penultimate speaker, Robert Wong from Google, who beseeched: “Do epic shit.” John Bielenberg, Rene Redzepi, Rahim Bhimani, Alfredo Brillembourg, Sissel Tolaas and Clive van Heerden all said it: shit. And... Read More
Magazine covers we love (with cyclists on them)!
MarkLives.com runs a regular slot featuring the best local and international magazine covers every week. We recognise well thought out, powerful and interesting (and hopefully all three in one) magazine covers and celebrate the mix of pragmatism, creativity and personal taste that created each of them. By media bloggerMediaSlutZA. I’m one of those people who dreads the Cape... Read More
SENSEable cities
by Herman Manson Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman head up the SENSEable City Laboratory, a research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where they study the built environment through deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics. Apart from being director of the SENSEable City Lab, Ratti also regularly contributes to architecture magazine Domus and the... Read More
Andrew Shoben on how a ‘design capital’ should view public art
by Herman Manson Andrew Shoben makes art in public spaces. His artists’collective, greyworld, has become known for creating artwork in mostly urban spaces that resonates with many rather than an ‘arty’ few. So they famously tuned sets of street railings in cities around Europe so that when you ran a stick along them they played “The Girl from Ipanema.”... Read More
