by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This week on Design Annotator we’ve rounded up: Design Indaba field notes; Absa’s Make Think Become Did initiative; MTN’s Seed It campaign; XooXity hackathon; last year’s Absa L’Atelier competition winners; Marissa Pretorius of Cape Town-based florist, OPUS; illustrator Jaco Haasbroek; Stefanus Nel’s Blink Project; and multi-talented artist Nardstar*.
Category archives: #DesignIndaba25 – Festival of Design
The haunting of Lauren Beukes in a city of sadness #designindaba
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Violence is the failure of empathy, the failure of imagination, says Lauren Beukes, the South African whose novels have garnered international acclaim. Speaking at Design Indaba 2014, Beukes told us how we create stories to protect us from monsters — such as violence — as self-defence mechanisms.
Marcello Serpa on how to build a successful ad agency #designindaba
by Herman Manson (@marklives) For most people, Marcello Serpa (@Marcello_Serpa) is the guy who made Havaianas famous. It was his first account at his own agency and he has helped grow a local brand in Brazil into a global powerhouse. For ad people, he is that, of course, but more importantly to them, I suspect, is that he and a business partner launched his own agency (AlmapBBDO), made it, and made it fly.
Ije Nwokorie and the messy truth #designindaba
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2014 speaker Ije Nwokorie believes in making a mess — especially when it comes to brands and branding. His unconventional but highly successful approach to marketing is traced, by Nwokorie himself, to his upbringing in rural Nigeria, and the creativity he had to display in dodging bullies and buses.
Juliana Rotich maps the future with Ushahidi #designindaba
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Juliana Rotich, a speaker at Design Indaba 2014, has a remarkable eye. Show her a map of undersea broadband cables connecting to Africa, and she points out that they still follow the sea routes that helped make Africa a continent of colonies not so many decades ago.
Nandipha Mntambo’s Ode to the Silence #designindaba
Nandipha Mntambo won the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art in 2011 and is a speaker at Design Indaba 2014. She has had four solo shows at Stevenson in Cape Town (2007, 2009, 2012) and Johannesburg (2009); and held her first European solo exhibition at Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, in 2013.
The many faces of Zanele Muholi — ‘Faces and Phases’ #designindaba
Zanele Muholi, a visual activist and photographer, is a speaker at the 2014 Design Indaba. In 2013 she won the Fine Prize for an emerging artist at the 2013 Carnegie International and the prestigious Prince Claus Award, presented in Amsterdam.
Athi-Patra Ruga: Not your average wallflower #designindaba
Athi-Patra Ruga was born in Umtata in 1984 and lives and works in both Johannesburg and Cape Town. Athi-Patra Ruga was recently included in the Phaidon book Younger Than Jesus, a directory of over 500 of the world’s best artists under the age of 33. He is a speaker at a speaker at Design Indaba 2014.
Ije Nwokorie on the death of brand myths #designindaba
by Russell Southwood (@BalancingActAfr) In this interview, Ije Nwokorie, managing director at Wolff Olins London and a speaker at the Design Indaba 2014, talks about how he came to run Wolff Olins London and what branding means for him
A better future though design at Design Indaba #designindaba
We look at the creative campaign behind Design Indaba 2014.