Over the last number of years Cape Town has come to the fore as the “Creative Capital” of South Africa’s advertising industry thanks to the consistently high ranking of a number of Cape Town agencies at local and international award shows.
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Nashua Mobile, Nokia, take on BlackBerry Internet
Nashua Mobile has introduced a near-unlimited data package for selected Nokia phones that directly challenges the R59/month BlackBerry internet Service.
Shit is trending at Design Indaba
“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.”
How South Africans would re-imagine banking for the better
How South Africans would re-imagine banking for the better
Magazine covers we love (with cyclists on them)!
I’m one of those people who dreads the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour more and more as it gets closer and closer. Not because I’m participating, but because every morning on my way to work, more cyclist end up on the roads, and forces me to swirve out for them into on coming traffic. I much prefer them in print.
SENSEable cities
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.
Andrew Shoben on how a ‘design capital’ should view public art
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.
Clive van Heerden sees the ‘far-future’ of design
by Herman Manson Clive van Heerden is the senior director of Design-Led Innovation at Philips Design. In its simplest terms, Van Heerden and his team researches how socio-cultural and technology shifts only just emerging today might shape society and the way we live ten or twenty years from now. In 2007, the team’s work on …
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An architect’s manifesto
People are expecting real change real fast. This is true for the Middle East and North Africa. It’s also true here at the Southernmost point of Africa. Urban environments that imprison and entrench poverty rather than provide economic mobility has immense socio-economic and cultural ramifications for an increasingly urbanised nation.
Interaction design with Hellicar & Lewis
Hellicar & Lewis is the interaction design partnership between Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis.