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It’s a (square) wrap #designindaba

by Herman Manson. Talk about visual overload and you are probably talking Design Indaba by day three of its annual conference.

#DesignIndaba: contradictions in architecture

As riots and revolution rocks the Arab world, the rulers of Abu Dhabi are building yet another offshore island villa complex for the super-rich. Designer Dror Benshetrit, speaking on the first day of the annual Design Indaba conference, currently underway at the Cape Town International Convention Centre in Cape Town, admits he spent several minutes laughing loudly over the phone during the call in which he was told he’d won the design contract (admittedly approved before the current wage of rage swept the region) that he’d designed in only five weeks.

[Design Indaba 2011] Glittering er design lights

by Herman Manson. Fear not, glitter pork and cupcakes are not on the menu at this year’s Design Indaba Conference. Instead, delegates will be treated to a range of fascinating characters from the design world, sharing global design best practice in areas as diverse as architecture, service delivery and advertising.

The world’s best-designed newspaper looks like a magazine

Portugal, that other country that used to sell itself as “more than you can imagine” (today it’s “Europe’s West Coast”), is home to the world’s best designed newspaper, i. Short for informação, i launched in 2009 to critical acclaim, and the newspaper has just been judged the World’s Best-Designed Newspaper by the Society for News Design.

Re-designing news challenges journos, publishers

All The News That’s Fit to Print, to quote the most famous newspaper motto of all time, has of course become less about reams and reams of words stuffed onto cheap paper and more about words and images strategically placed to tell a story in a way that is accessible to readers. Visual journalists like Charles Apple play an increasingly important role as the news industry attempts to increase engagement, with consumers used to sound bites and quick synopses of news as it happens. Their work and strategic importance is already apparent locally in the recent redesigns of South African newspapers Rapport and City Press.

We are so hot right now.

We are so hot right now. Climate Change mailer – Love Jozi.

Hillbrow the new Highbrow

This range is called Highbrow and is elevating the original Love Jozi brand up a notch. “I’ve always wanted to shoot in Hillbrow – the inner city regeneration is doing so well but many people don’t know that Hillbrow is also on its way to recovery,” says designer Bradley Kirshenbaum. “With the help of organisations …

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Garth Walker Focus: L’enfant Jesus

Client: Saint-Etienne International Design Biennale 2009
Title: L’enfant Jesus
Says Garth: A comment on the city of Saint-Etienne and their history as an arms manufacturer (mostly during the Napoleonic wars). More recently the city has switched to the manufacture of textiles.

The MK Bruce Lee preview

ssue 3 of MK Buce Lee will be in-store end of May 09. MK Bruce Lee is a quarterly publication focussing on the local music scene and is sponsored by music channel MK. Agency The President recently scooped a silver CLIO statue at the 50th Annual CLIO Awards. The magazine won the award in the category for Editorial Design. MarkLives provides a preview of the next issue: