Heath Nash takes other people’s trash – plastic bottles and bottle tops – and makes them into something beautiful. He discusses what African design means to him, and how it goes beyond the art and the product to create jobs and positively impact the environment.
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Design Indaba 2012: A better world through creativity
“We do what we do because design is about more than aesthetics, it is about finding creative solutions to transform and improve the lives of people across the globe.” Ravi Naidoo, founder of Design Indaba Design Indaba 2012 is upon us! From 29 February to 4 March, Cape Town will again host one of the…
Bringing science and design together for development
What happens when you get designers and developers, community-minded people and coders together for two days around a good cause? Cape Town Science Hack Day will unite participants for 48 hours to explore how science and new technology can empower communities.
The Loeries come home to roost in (creative) Cape Town
Cape Town has won the bid to host the Loerie Awards for a further three years, and is celebrating the opportunity to showcase its creative talent as it journeys towards World Design Capital 2014.
Design inspired by nature, and applied to The Fringe
What inspires a number of design students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology? Quite simply: nature’s genius.
Designing information technology to tackle health challenges
Care and support isn’t something that you would readily associate with MXit, the largest mobile social network in Africa. But hundreds of thousands already do.
Designing a climate smart city
COP17, the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference, might be in Durban, but Cape Town representatives are there in force, showcasing how the city is adapting to the challenges of climate change and making the city more sustainable through design.
TEDxCape Town: Water, design and why it matters
What designs have governed our use of water in the past, and what does that mean for our civilisation? We decided to highlight three talks from TEDxCapeTown 2011, on how we can, and indeed have to, redesign our approach to this life-giving asset as a city and a species.
South Africa 2030: Design and the National Planning Commission (Video)
The National Planning Commission (NPC) has released their 444-page report outlining how they believe we should take the country into a brighter, more sustainable future by 2030. To our eyes, the wording of the National Development Plan is surprisingly close to that of Cape Town’s World Design Capital bid. See for yourself.
What World Design Capital 2014 isn’t
Cape Town has just been named World Design Capital in 2014 and there’s been much celebration in the Mother City. There’s also been a lot of debate about what this means. Creative Cape Town explored this further and released: A beginner’s guide to what World Design Capital 2014 isn’t.
