Design Indaba

Last chance to enter the Your Street Challenge

[Issued by Design Indaba] The deadline of the Your Street Challenge is today, Friday, 16 March. If you live or work in Gauteng or KwaZulu-Natal then share your brilliant idea for improving a street-level experience in one of these provinces. 16 Mar 2012 07:06

Antalis launches new paper, Olympic competition

Antalis South Africa, at this year's Design Indaba Expo, launched its latest Conqueror Bamboo promotion, 'Your gift to the Earth' and a 'Win the Medal!' typographic games competition, from Arjo Wiggins Creative Papers, which offers printers a sporting chance to attend the 2012 Olympics in London for a weekend. 12 Mar 2012 14:04

Design Indaba gives emerging creative jewellers valuable insight

As part of the Emerging Creatives programme of the Design Indaba Expo 2012, four design students from the Thuthuka Jewellery & Product Development Programme showcased their work to the local and international audience, gaining valuable insights into market likes and expectations. 9 Mar 2012 12:30

The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town

TJDR CT creates a manifesto for Design Indaba attendees

[Issued by The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town] For the eighth consecutive year The Jupiter Drawing Room (Cape Town) has developed the brand advertising and design collateral for Cape Town's annual Design Indaba. 9 Mar 2012 12:19

Lighting, layout enhance Design Indaba Expo

This year's Design Indaba Expo broke new ground when exhibition designers Scan Display, which set up and broke down the exhibition, installed LED lighting within the Unibox booths that not only provided better illumination for products but also reportedly saved 93% energy against standard lighting. 9 Mar 2012 10:44

[Design Indaba 2012] Q&A with MBOISA, expo winners

[Simone Puterman: editor-at-large] This year, the big winners at the Design Indaba Expo were jeweller Kirsten Goss, whose Lily Pad Ring is the Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2012; graphic designer and Creative Stand winner Mike van Heerden; and Andy Cartwright of Andy Cartwright Homeware, who walked off with the inaugural Innovation Award. Bizcommunity.com finds out what these wins mean and how the expo was for them, as well as their plans for the future. 8 Mar 2012 12:47

AAA student design wins Foodcorp Design Challenge 2012

On the opening day of the Design Indaba Expo, the Foodcorp Design Challenge 2012 announced its winning student entries. Challenged to engineer packaging, marketing and advertising concepts for local blue chip brands, Yum Yum Peanut Butter, Glenryck Pilchards, Ouma Rusks and Mageu Number 1, the first prize went to the AAA's Tanya Reyneke. 8 Mar 2012 10:51

Lily Pad ring crowned Most Beautiful Object in South Africa 2012

This year, at the Design Indaba Expo 2012, Kirsten Goss's Lily Pad ring took the title of Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA), as voted by the public online and via SMS. The Design Indaba Expo Innovation Award and the Most Creative Stand winners were Andy Cartwright Homeware and Emerging Creative graphic designer Mike van Heerden, respectively. 7 Mar 2012 15:44

[Design Indaba 2012] There ain't no grave

[Terry Levin] Presenting at the closing session of the first day of Design Indaba 2012, Chris Milk, an accomplished music video producer, and Aaron Koblin, who has the enviable job description as head of the data arts team at Google Creative Lab, spoke about their collaboration in reinventing the music video using new digital thinking. [video] 6 Mar 2012 16:37

[Design Indaba 2012] That personal touch at the expo

[Jordan Scott] Studying at the AAA School of Advertising has given me the opportunity to go to the Design Indaba Expo for the last three years. Each year I am blown away by the creativity and innovation that moves through the veins of Cape Town, its surrounding areas and the rest of South Africa. What was most interesting about this year's event was that it had a much more "personal" feel to it. 6 Mar 2012 11:04

Short, sharp close to Design Indaba

This year's Design Indaba close saw Mini South Africa and iLuminate, of America's Got Talent fame, produce a glittering representation in lights of the newest addition to the car range, the new Mini Roadster, as it joined international performers. 6 Mar 2012 08:58

Firewater Group

Firewater Light helps to reveal the new Mini Roadster

[Issued by Firewater Group] The Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town came to a close on Friday, 2 March, and Firewater Light together with Black River FC closed the event off in style. In what was known as the 'Mystery Performance', the two companies took the stage with international act iLuminate, of America's Got Talent fame, to unveil the new Mini Roadster. 5 Mar 2012 21:05

[Design Indaba 2012] Invest in people

[Anton Crone] Coincidentally, while thousands at Design Indaba last week were being inspired by bold urban design that challenges our thinking, the former mayor of Bogota, Columbia, was challenging urban development policies at a conference in Stellenbosch. Screened during the Design Indaba week, the documentary Urbanized expounded on Enrique Peñasola's initiatives. As bold and controversial as these are, the benefits to the citizens are profound. As he states, "We invested in people." 5 Mar 2012 16:31

[Design Indaba 2012] SENSEable cities

[Herman Manson: @marklives] Presenting at the 2012 Design Indaba conference, which took place last week at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Carlo Ratti and Assaf Biderman highlighted the role technology and information can play in optimising city planning. Bizcommunity.com speaks to the two about their philosophy behind their approach and the tools used in their research. 5 Mar 2012 15:10