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The Loeries radio jury member and executive for brand, marketing and digital at Pick n Pay, Katherine Madley, chatted to VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity on the state of retail.

The Loeries 2025 in-person jury judging session took place on Monday and Tuesday, 6 and 7 October, in Cape Town. VML Birdwatching at the Loeries with Bizcommunity caught up with some of the jury presidents to glean some of the highlights of the entries and what constitutes a winning entry.

Episode 3 is the Energy Episode with special guests Kagiso Tshepe, executive creative director at Grid Worldwide, Roanna Williams, chief creative officer and co-founder of Boundless, Fran Luckin, chief creative officer of VML, Preetesh Sewraj, CEO of The Loeries and Brandon Govender, digital & integrated executive creative director at Joe Public.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 2 is the Emotion Episode and features special guests Neo Segola, head of creative at Le Pub, part of the Publicis Group, Sharleen James, chair of the ACA and marketing practice lead at Accenture Song, Tebogo Skwambane, WPP country manager, Terry McKenna, executive creative director of The Odd Number and rounding it off Carl Willoughby, chief creative officer of TBWA / Hunt Lascaris.

Birdwatching at The Loeries Episode 1 focuses on that five percent difference, with special guests Wayne Naidoo, CEO of the Duke Group, Marc Algranti from Algranti Music and Nkanyezi Masango, chief creative officer from Dentsu Creative.

Once again, exhibition designers Scan Display planned, set up and broke down this year's Design Indaba Expo.

Internationally renowned Australian Lego artist Nathan Sawaya created a large installation art piece, measuring about two metres high, at the Design Indaba conference, 29 February-2 March 2012. He demonstrated the collective power of great design as part of Absa's campaign for the 2012 Design Indaba.

The future of South African design looked especially bright this year at the 2012 Design Indaba Expo, with a high standard of craftsmanship and design from both the seasoned and Emerging Creatives sectors.

The 2012 Design Indaba Conference, which opened on Wednesday, 29 February 2012, took place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre until 2 March 2012.

The shortlist of the 10 most-beautiful objects in South Africa over the past year has been selected by lineup of design journalists and cultural commentators for Design Indaba's 2012 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa (MBOISA) award.

Art of Design was launched nationally during June 2011 to a record number of guests.