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.
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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.
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
Design Annotator: Design Indaba, creative hustles and boers at the end of the world
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This week on Design Annotator we’ve rounded up: this year’s Design Indaba (DI) MBOISA nominations; studio visits with Cape Town and Joburg designers exhibiting at the DI Expo; a Google Hangout with Absa’s brand manager on its DI sponsorship; the inaugural GUILD Design Fair; #CreativeHustles; interviewing Richard Finn Gregory on his upcoming film ‘The Boers at the End of the World’; and how to buy illustration prints from Take Me Home online!
A better future though design at Design Indaba #designindaba
We look at the creative campaign behind Design Indaba 2014.
Five fave talks from recent conferences #designindaba
by Herman Manson. We pick five talks from recent Design Indaba conferences that rocked.
Design Annotator: Meet the Design Indaba 2014 Emerging Creatives
by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) For our weekly wrap-up, we’ve collected: Mr Sakitumi and The Grrrl x Mercedes Benz; Bell’s Whisky ‘The Reader’ TVC from King James and Velocity Films; ‘Take Me Home’ print sale we’re having this First Thursday; ‘Broken Foot Drawings’ exhibition by Koos Groenwald on Instagram; meet the Design Indaba 2014 Emerging Creatives; wew work by graphic designer Thomas Pepler; Rebecca Haysom’s narrative pictures, wish-fulfillment and escape; photographer Ed Suter’s ‘Sharp Sharp Ghana’, and meet Knoffel, the saddest dog in the world, from a series of short films directed by Dave Meinert.
Design Annotator: 3D Printed Chocolate
by Uno de Waal In our round-up this week, we bring you:
Amazing shots from 8 South African photographers using a Nokia Lumia 1020.
LAyers of NYC by Josh Hayman
Kit-Kat has created a world first 3D printed chocolate.
Kreepy Krauly Wrangler
Out of Office: Bean There
Glaceau vitaminwater City Insiders | Cape Town
Design Indaba has showcased their great bar designs with Fine Brandy by Design.
Design Indaba 2013: Oscar Diaz on our innate understanding of objects
By Herman Manson (@marklives) Design Indaba 2013 London based product designer Oscar Diaz (@OscarDiazStudio) has made a name for himself thanks to his innovative and creative work in on a broad range of products and services including furniture, shop window installations (see Alphabet shoes for Terra Plana below) and limited edition objects like his widely lauded RGB vases.
Diaz studied design at the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Bordeaux in France and took an MA in product design at the Royal College of Art in London. Diaz has worked in Japan and the UK.
This week Diaz is in Cape Town to give a talk at the annual Design Indaba Conference (running from Feb 27 – March 1). We tracked him down before his arrival to ask him what draws him to product design.
MarkLives: You started studying fine art but ended up with a Master’s in Product Design at the Royal College of Art in London. What about product design grabbed you?
Diaz: I discovered that people have an innate understanding of objects that they don’t necessarily have when it comes to art. Art is much more hermetic and needs a bit of knowledge to be appreciated.
It was the accessibility of design, which made me want to change field.
Ravi Naidoo talks Martha and a billion bucks
by Herman Manson. Ravi Naidoo launched South Africa’s signature event for the global design stage, the Design Indaba, in 1995, with 200 attendees at the Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town. The Indaba, and Naidoo, has come a long way since then.