Design Zuma’s bastard
Posted on 07. Jul, 2010 by azadessa in Blog, Culture, featured
It has been a whirlwind month. The World Cup has come and its on its way out. How it has hurt this country is easy to qualify. What it has done for the country, is impossible to quantify. Either way. It has been an incredible month. One gets the feeling we are all high. And [...]
For the Love. Of the Game.
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by iheidi in Design, books
So you thought you knew what a soccer ball looks like? So did I. Until a few years ago, when I came across a couple of kids in Malawi, vying for my attention with a handmade rubber soccer ball. I bought only one, and I gave it away, damn it! To the one I love(d). [...]
A Vuvuzela hits the Highway
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by iheidi in Design, media
Such interesting times in the city of Cape Town! On any given day, something new catches my eye. This giant vuvuzela on the unfinished highway appeared out of the blue (or should I say, in the blue?), courtesy of Hyundai. (I managed to get a snapshot on the weekend, before it was branded, hahaa). Brands [...]
Between the Lines of The Stadium
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by iheidi in Design, books
The book Cape Town Stadium: Between the Lines by Bettina Andrag investigates both the complexities of the architecture as well as the dynamics behind the building of the stadium. It gives a voice to many who were involved, from forklift operators to architects and engineers. Aspects such as the complexity of the seat design, the [...]
Counter Currents in Cape Town
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by iheidi in Design, Politics, books
A call to re-imagine the city was made to local architects, planners, and urban thinkers… by Edgar Pieterse, the editor of the book Counter Currents – Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town region. Not one to simply judge a book by its cover, or its spelling mistakes (peek instead of peak?!), I attended two [...]
NIKE South Africa in association with KRONK: Phenomenal Design Partnership
Posted on 11. May, 2010 by Talita in Culture, Design, featured
“The thing about football is that it’s not about football.” Nike launched it’s South African Sportswear Six Collaboration Range in association with Kronk on Monday, 3rd May at Gallery on 4th in Melville and although the clothes were about the world cup, there were Nike’s soccer player ambassadors and the designs were about soccer, the [...]
Handspring Puppet Co. and ZANews at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Design, Politics
The Handspring Puppet company fascinated us all. We moved to the edges of our seats as they announced that they were about to bring their latest creation on stage. Moments later a tall horse was slowly walked in, all flowing movement and subtle expression. Truly breathtaking. You had to be there. Visit The Handspring Puppet [...]
Future Farmers at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Design, Food
A number of last year’s Design Indaba speakers returned to the stage this year, having applied their minds to a particular topic: future farming. 5.5 presented a book that displayed all the typical fauna and flora in cities, Dunne and Raby presented a concept on futuristic foraging, Frank Tjepkema shared his ideas of self-contained farming [...]
Alejandro Aravena at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Design
Creativity, Alejandro said, is what you use, when there is not enough available knowledge: It’s because the world is changing that we need creativity – to answer new questions that are constantly arising in the world. Alejandro’s mission is to give simple answers, without being reductive. To clarify, he showed the audience a stick drawing [...]
Martha Stewart at Design Indaba 2010
Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by iheidi in Business, Design, Food
Let them eat cake. She might as well have said it. (Or it might have been, Let them eat pork, with glitter?) Poor Martha. She was savaged, by an audience that walked out en masse. How could she have gotten it so wrong? How did she manage to alienate her audience so thoroughly? Was it [...]
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