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Tag archives: design indaba
Motive: Five designs that could revolutionise life
by Katie de Klee. The 2015 biennial INDEX Awards winners are a solar battery, a language-learning app, an ocean clean-up scheme, an app to diagnose eye diseases, and vertically grown vegetables.
Shelf Life: The best of Design Indaba Expo 2015 #designindaba #makechange
by Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland) This year it was Design Indaba’s own projects that attracted much of the attention: Take 2 — giving life to used objects; the Most Beautiful Object in SA (MBOISA); how Artymiss won creativity; and Woolies takeout a win at DI 2015.
Ad of the Week: Looks good on paper #designindaba
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) “Make. Change.” is the mantra for Design Indaba 2015. This year, The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town has conceptualised the creative for the event with a campaign showcasing the use of paper that harnesses the brand’s core theme, #MAKECHANGE.
Design Indaba: Making #makechange #designindaba
Design Indaba 2015 is upon us and its ad agency, The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town, is once again responsible for its advertising and marketing campaign. This year, the event is encouraging participants to ignite positive change through design.
Design Indaba — from event to institution
by Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba is at an interesting stage of its development as it develops from an event to a design institution, with activities through-out the year.
Shelf Life: New skincare range Lipidol launched in SA
Louise Marsland (@Louise_Marsland)’s weekly pick of recent product, packaging and design launches: Lipidol oil-based skin care launches in SA, LG demos future of TV, Design Indaba launches news portal and new nail colours for Spring from Essie.
Green Sky Thinking: I make therefore I innovate
by Colwyn Elder (@colwynelder) Design-hungry patrons certainly got their fill at the end of February 2014 with Design Indaba’s signature lineup of creatively inspirational speakers, complemented by the prestigious GUILD exhibition, Africa’s first international design fair. In keeping with Cape Town’s WDC premise “Live Design, Transform Life”, sustainability was a key theme across both.
Design Annotator: Design Indaba wrap-ups, hackathons & floral installations
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*.
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.