Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
DESIGN INDABA SEPTEMBER NEWS
DESIGN INDABA 2009
Design Indaba Conference will run from February 25 to 27, 2009, and the Design Indaba Expo will follow, opening on Friday February 27 and running until March 1, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
DESIGN INDABA EXPO 2009 FILLING UP FAST
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To make a booking, please contact Beverley Cupido on bev@interactiveafrica.com or Tel: 021 465 9966.
CNMA ENTRIES OPEN
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Deadline: 12 December 2008
A trophy is awarded in each category at the award ceremony during the Design Indaba Conference 2009. One overall winner receives the Grand Prix and the top student wins a trip to the UK to work alongside an acclaimed designer.
Register online by visiting www.constructionaward.com. Please contact Caryn van Rooyen at carynv@interactiveafrica.com for more information.
FILM FEST: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
For the past five years, the Design Indaba Expo has showcased the best South African short films, music videos and animations. The film festival is open to viewing by all Design Indaba Expo visitors and is screened between the fashion shows at the fashion ramp. The festival is a curated programme and there is no fee for participation. Film screenings should not exceed 12 minutes in length and all submissions need to be in mini dv or high-resolution Quicktime (uncompressed or pal). If you would like to submit your short film, music video or animation, please contact Bev Cupido at bev@interactiveafrica.com or Tel: 021 465 9966.
MMA FINALIST FOR HUMANITARIAN DESIGN PRIZE
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Administered by the University of Kentucky, this new humanitarian design prize of $100 000 honours designers who are tackling the needs of the world’s poorest. The winner will be announced on September 25 at the 11th Biennale of Architecture in Venice.
More info: http://currystonedesignprize.com/
SOUTH EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRY
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Prizes to the value of R175 000 are up for grabs. Submissions for SOUTH are open to creative practitioners of any genre, over 21 years of age. Selected centres will be receiving work in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth between November 13 and 15, 2008.
For entry forms and more information please visit www.designindaba.com/south.
EMERGING CREATIVES PROGRAMME
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Participation in the Design Indaba Expo gives these creatives a public platform where they have access and exposure to local and international media, agencies and companies. Participants are also invited to attend the first day of the Young Designers Simulcast.
For more information please contact Beverley Cupido on Tel: (021) 465 9966 or bev@interactiveafrica.com
DESIGN INDABA MAGAZINE: TOUGH LOVE
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Design Indaba, Q308, “Tough Love”, is available in selected Exclusive Books stores, Melissa’s and other outlets.
Click here for a full list of distribution points.
Contact Lucinda Johannes at lucinda@interactiveafrica.com or Tel: 021 465 9966.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
New Open House Architecture tour
Saturday 11 October
OH6 focusses on the modernist icon Pius Pahl, born in Germany in 1909. He resided
and practiced in Stellenbosch for most of his life until his death a few years ago. Pahl was trained at the Bauhaus, the centre of the International style. Pahl was a skilled carpenter, builder, glassier, designer, artist and architect and his work is representations of his own craftmanship as well as the Bauhaus ideology. He was taught and mentored by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and some of Pahl's student work under van der Rohe is in a permanent exhibition in the Bauhaus museum in Berlin.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Design takes a stand
Reading the newspapers these days can make one feel dejected about the state of the world and South Africa. The newest edition of Design Indaba magazine, “Tough Love”, is dedicated to what creative love can bring to tough situations.
With a radical, eye-popping cover by Athi-Patra Ruga and Chris Saunders, the Q308 edition of Design Indaba magazine demands a progressive attitude to the social responsibility inherent in good design.
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Poster boy of solutions-driven architecture, Cameron Sinclair tells Design Indaba about what goes into being nice. Trailblazing Belgian designer Arne Quinze uses chaotic wooden constructions to revive public spaces. Constantin Boym finds power in miniatures to memorialise buildings brought down by chaos and disaster. Kosovan typographer and information designer Yll Roguva tells Peet Pienaar about designing a new nation.
On the local front, Design Indaba magazine visits Johannesburg and invites over 30 designers to reclaim their city in the Jozi is Mine feature. Photographer Nontsikelelo Veleko gives Design Indaba an exclusive peak into the scrapbook that informs her street fashion lens.
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Jozi jewellers Beverley Price, Geraldine Fenn, Deirdre Coleman and Philippe Bousquet share their thoughts on gold. Further, independent design studio Ontwerp.tv tells us what it takes to get ahead in the big city, while The Pavement Special tells us about the underground music scene.
Stretching into the built environment, Design Indaba celebrates legendary architect Pancho Guedes’s first retrospective on the African continent, and meets up with two South African architects who are shaping Toronto – Jack Diamond and Shirley Blumberg.
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In the news section, we receive word from Ilse Crawford, Jan Kaplicky, Doshi Levien, Li Edelkoort, Yves Béhar, Marije Vogelzang, Toshiyuki Kita, David Byrne, Kudzanai Chiurai, Whatiftheworld and more. Five Mingo Lamberti T-shirts are also up for grabs in the competition.
This edition also sees the launch of our new books section, Text.Doc, which includes reviews of Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far by Stefan Sagmeister; Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, designed by Abbot Miller; Book of Warriors by Shumeng Ye; and Jaime Hayon Works – the designer's first monograph.
Design Indaba, Q308, “Tough Love”, is available in selected Exclusive Books stores, Melissa’s and other outlets nationwide. Click here for a full list of distribution points.
To subscribe contact Lucinda Johannes at lucinda@interactiveafrica.com or Tel: 021 465 9966.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Puff and Pass online
The Pan African Space Station (PASS) is a 30-day music intervention from September 12 to October 12, on radio and the internet, as well as venues across greater Cape Town.
It launches on September 12 with "Songs for Biko, and other stomps, screams and prayers:" after-tears; vigil; wake; marathon; whatever. An open party to launch PASS. At the Pan African Market (76 Long Street, Cape Town) from 1 pm on Friday 12 Sept (Biko Day) to 1pm on Saturday 13 Sept. DJs, musicians, soundists, poets, generally noise people will present music and sound inspired by Steve Biko's work; or read from his words in I Write What I Like.
Check out their new website and get involved: www.panafricanspacestation.org.za
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
10x10 Housing up for award!
MMA Architects has been named one of five finalists for a new humanitarian design prize of $100,000 that honors designers who are tackling the needs of the world’s poorest. This is for their solution to the Design Indaba 10x10 Housing project!
View more pictures: http://www.panoramio.com/user/2203156
The Curry Stone Design Prize, administered by the University of Kentucky, will be awarded every year to “breakthrough design solutions with the power and potential to improve our lives and the world we live in.” This year’s inaugural winner will be announced Sept 25, 2008 at the IdeaFestival in Louisville, Ky.
The finalists are:
Shawn Frayne, inventor of the Windbelt, the world’s first non-turbine wind-powered generator. The technology, which is light enough to hold in your hand, has enormous potential to help people in poor communities power lamps, run small vaccine refrigerators and charge cell phones for pennies a day. www.humdingerwind.com
Wes Janz, architect and associate professor of architecture at Ball State University in Indiana and author of the forthcoming book, “One Small Project.” Janz’s practice focuses on “leftover places” – the world’s slums and settlements where people build shelters from scavenged materials. In collaboration with his students and local communities, Janz has constructed shelters and pavilions in Argentina, Sri Lanka and elsewhere from found materials such as mud and rubble from demolished buildings. www.onesmallproject.com
MMA Architects’ innovations include an ingenious design for low-cost homes in a shantytown outside Cape Town, whose timber frame and sandbag infill construction can be built for $6,900. The design, which borrows from indigenous mud-and-wattle building techniques, is energy-efficient, and requires little to no electricity or skilled labor to construct. www.mmaarch.co.za
Marjetica Potrč, an artist and architect who works closely with impoverished communities to devise sustainable solutions to quality-of-life dilemmas, such as a “dry toilet” which collects human waste and converts it to fertilizer. More recently, she has spent time in New Orleans examining the revival of homegrown sustainable practices such as rainwater harvesting, which helps collect run-off storm-water, restores wetlands and prevents flooding. http://Potrc.org
Antonio Scarponi, an architect based in Venice, Italy using architecture, multimedia arts and design to “jam” the conventional social order and illuminate our shared humanity as well as the social and political lines that divide us. His 2007 interactive project, “Dreaming Wall,” was a digitally generated billboard installed in an historic Milanese square that displayed randomly chosen real-time text messages sent from across the world. www.dreamingwall.net
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Graphic design at David Krut
Drawing Show, opens on Wednesday, 10 September at 18:00 at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg. Drawing Show is an exhibition of works produced by South African graphic designers, which blur the line between contemporary visual art, graphic design and illustration. Participants include:
Johnny Kotze and Scott Robertson (aka: Dirty Sanchez)
Jason Bronkhorst of Infiltrate
Joh Del
Richard Hart, Roger Jardine and designers of Disturbance
Olivier Schildt of Rex
Peet Pienaar at The President
Garth Walker at Orange Juice
am I collective
Carina Comrie of Bon-Bon
Givan Lotz
Thursday, August 21, 2008
The President hosts typography workshop by well-known Dutch designer
Publishing and design consultancy, The President is presenting a typography
workshop by well-known Dutch designer, Richard Niessen.
The two day typography course, that will be hosted on 19 and 22 September, will
include an overview of Niessen’s own work, as well as a detailed presentation on
his personal methods of creating typography. On day two, delegates will receive
a practical assignment that will be completed under the guidance of the speaker.
During the workshop Niessen will focus on editing content, translating that
content into type, making characters for a typeface, producing a simple poster
and then translating that into another medium.
Richard Niessen graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in
1996. His work is systematic, grid-like, readable and usable, as much as it is rich
in form, shape and colour. Niessen gives projects a distinct language, a secret
vocabulary that makes each piece stand out. His consistent oeuvre echoes the
seamless integration of typography, calligraphy, imagery and text found in
Byzantine and Medieval illuminated manuscripts.
“There are very few courses in South Africa for designers and we would like to
expose young local talent to top international designers like Richard Niessen,”
says creative director of The President, Peet Pienaar. “We are very excited about
hosting this talented typographic artist here in South Africa. Typography is an art
that requires a very sensitive and skillful approach and Richard is one of the best
there is out there.”
Delegates can contact The President at hannerie@thepresident.co.za to book
one of the limited spaces. The fee is R1750 for both days and includes lunch and
a booklet featuring a selection of Niessen’s work.
Link to Richard Niessen’s website: www.niessendevries.nl
For queries: Hannerie Visser on 021 462 6099 or 082 782 6707 or
hannerie@thepresident.co.za
20+10+X Architecture Awards 2nd Cycle
20+10+X Architecture Awards 2nd Cycle
Deadline for submissions: 24 October 2008
World’s largest directory and information sharing portal for contemporary architecture highlights the most remarkable examples of architectural imagination from all countries. The shortlist for the 1st Cycle of the “20+10+X” Awards can be viewed now, and 200+ Honorary Members have started voting for the 20 projects they consider worth promoting. Results of the 1st Cycle will be announced on 20 September 2008.
Architects from all countries are invited to register free to join the WA Community and submit their projects to be appreciated and reviewed worldwide.
Click to see the SHORTLIST of the 1st Cycle
Click to see the brief for the 2nd Cycle
Visitors can use the “Rating Machine” to see all citations in succession:
+10 Awards in each Cycle are determined by the ratings of all visitors. Choose a project and start rating to participate.
All architectural scholars are invited to write and submit comments and articles for shortlisted projects:
“Most Mind-provoking +X” projects in each Cycle are determined by the wealth of commentaries submitted to these pages by other members.
For further information please contact:
Céline Duprét or
Ophelia Fletcher
WA Community Portal
www.worldarchitecture.org
info@worldarchitecture.org
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Spot the difference
I know you're thinking I've posted this flyer before. For those unobservant types, I've circled the difference in red.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Exhibition by our cover boy!
…of bugchasers and watussi faghags
A solo exhibition by Athi-Patra Ruga
20 August – 20 September 2008
Please join us for the opening on Wednesday 20 August 2008 at 6pm
…of bugchasers and watussi faghags is the first solo exhibition of Athi-Patra Ruga’s to be held in Johannesburg. The exhibition revolves around the principal character of the "bugchaser", Beiruth, and his ‘tales of counter-penetration’, realized through craft-mediations and performances undertaken in various urban centers around South Africa and abroad.
This exhibition features collaborative photographic performance stills by Ruga with Swiss photographer Oliver Neubert; and Ruga with South African photographer Chris Saunders.
Will Bruder at UCT on Friday
Due to the overwhelming response received for this lecture, they have been forced to move the event to a larger venue. The lecture will now be held in Lecture Theatre 2 in the PD Hahn Building at the University of Cape Town.
Monday, August 18, 2008
The Society of A.P.E.S presents (seriously)
THE SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTS PLANNERS ENGINEERS & SURVEYORS
presents a slide show entitled
JAPANORAMA by Justin Fiske
On August 21 at 5.30 for 6pm
At the Cape Institute for Architecture, 71 Hout Street
RSVP with Soraya Tel 021-424 7128 Fax 021-424 3620 or email: admin@cifa.org.za
presents a slide show entitled
JAPANORAMA by Justin Fiske
On August 21 at 5.30 for 6pm
At the Cape Institute for Architecture, 71 Hout Street
RSVP with Soraya Tel 021-424 7128 Fax 021-424 3620 or email: admin@cifa.org.za
Enter the Makhulu Polane design competition
The annual Makhulu Polane t-shirt design competition has become a firm favourite on the annual SA design calendar and attracts entries from aspiring and professional graphic, illustration and fashion designers.
The 2008 Big Blue Makhulu Polane opens for entries on 18 August, closing date for submissions is the 1 September 2008. This year’s design theme is ‘Funny-Galore’ - the funniest, smartest, coolest design will win R20 000 in cash and will be sold in all Big Blue and Kitsch & Kool stores nationwide for two months.
The competition is not limited to submissions from registered students or designers but is open to anyone who feels they have a unique t-shirt design. Designs do not need to be digitally created – they do need to be submitted via the Big Blue website www.bigblue.co.za - hand drawn illustrations can be scanned and uploaded.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Design Indaba's Winning Streak
DESIGN INDABA 2009
Design Indaba Conference will run from February 25 to 27, 2009, and the Design Indaba Expo will follow, opening on Friday February 27 and running until March 1, at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.
VOTE FOR THE BEST OF CAPE TOWN
Design Indaba has been nominated in the Good Hope FM Best of Cape Town Awards. The more nominations we get the more chance of going through to the finals. Go to the website and nominate us in the Creative Cape Town category.
TABBIES FOR DESIGN INDABA MAGAZINE
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DESIGN INDABA CAMPAIGN WINS AT LOERIES
The Jupiter Drawing Room picked up eight awards in the recent Loeries for the Design Indaba Creativity Can campaign, including three silvers in the Mixed Media Campaign, Through-the-Line Communication and Radio categories.
CONGRATULATIONS TSAI
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Tsai will join the other 10 finalists from around the world for a 12-day tour of the British design industry in September, culminating in a visit to 100% Design and the announcement of the overall winner. The winner will receive a financial prize, as well as their own stand at 100% Design 2009.
Also winner of a Red Dot Design Award in 2007, Tsai says: ''South Africa has a lot of need for design-orientated solutions in the low-cost housing area for example, and designers therefore need to come up with design solutions on a mass scale, but there are a lot of entrepreneurial elements that need to go into it as well.''
WORD FROM THE DESIGN INDABA EXHIBITORS
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Grandt Mason, owner of g-mo, also reports that he met an investor through the Design Indaba Expo. Helping to fund the factory setup, the investment will provide jobs for six households. “It’s an awesome thing you guys are doing - keep up the sterling work,” says Mason.
EMERGING CREATIVES PROGRAMME
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For more information please contact Beverley Cupido on (021)465 9966 or bev@interactiveafrica.com
SOUTH EXHIBITION CALL FOR ENTRY
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Prizes to the value of R175 000 are up for grabs. Submissions for SOUTH are open to creative practitioners of any genre over 21 years of age. Selected centres will be receiving work in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth between November 13 and 15, 2008.
For entry forms and more information please visit www.designindaba.com/south.
CREATIVE CLUSTERS MEETING
It’s time for the next installment of the Creative Cape Town Cluster meeting (a networking and development forum for creative industries in the Western Cape), brought to you by Cape Town Partnership in association with Woolworths through the Creative Cape Town programme. Taking forward the theme for the year "Imagining Cape Town," speakers for the next session include: architect Luyanda Mpahlwa speaking about his low-cost housing solution for Design Indaba’s 10x10 project; trend analyst Jonathan Cherry suggesting ways to turn the city centre into a playground using new technology; and entrepreneur Iain Harris proposing that human capital is the new gold of the cultural economy. Listen to these stimulating presentations, ask questions and add your own voices. The session will be rounded off by a networking session including delicious Woolies snacks and a re-launch of Cape Flats Details, a collection of photos by Chris Ledochowski.
| Where: | Woolworths House, 93 Longmarket Street, Cape Town, behind the City Hall | ||
| When: | 28 August, 17h00 for 17h30 | ||
| RSVP: | seton@showcaseonline.co.za, 082 929 1899 |
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Congratulations Tsai!
The winner of Design Indaba's 2008 Most Beautiful Object in South Africa award for his nested bunkbeds, Tsai is on an upwards trajectory... He's just been nominated as the South African finalist for the 2008 International Young Design Entrepreneur of the Year award!Tsai is one of ten finalists who will compete for the actual award drawn from a range of sectors including: architecture, graphic design, product design, design promotion, and interactive and digital media. The countries taking part in this year’s award are Egypt, India, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, South Africa and Slovenia, Taiwan and Turkey.
As a finalist, Tsai will join 8 - 10 other finalists in September 2008, for a twelve day UK tour of the national design industry, which will culminate in them attending 100% Design (18-21 September 2008) and London Design Festival (September 2008). There the overall winner will be chosen and will receive a financial prize and their own stand at 100% Design 2008.
''Personally, it will be a great privilege to bring our work to the international arena as an emerging South African designer, and to have access to international audiences and possible clients. We have many other ideas and products that are designed in the South African context, but also have international appeal. I believe the IYDEY participation will allow us to expand our vision and ambition,” said Tsai upon hearing about being selection as a finalist.
Check out his website to see some of his other amazing work: www.tsaidesignstudio.com
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