The Western Cape Furniture Initiative held its annual design competition. The brief was to design a multi-purpose seating solution under the banner "shack chic". And the winners are....
Michaella Janse van Vuuren has created stunning new art pieces using 3-D printing technology. Both show an acute sense of attention to detail and mastery of an exciting new medium.
The latest National Geographic (November 2010) featured a South African invention, the Q-drum. The article, entitled Big Ideas: Little Packages suggests "Can good design save the world? It just might, one novel idea at a time."
While playing google earth tourist, I stumbled across my architectural thesis site. The existence of a rather predictable parking & commercial structure made me think about how large the gap between my fiction and Kloof Street's reality was.
Goosecraft is a leather jacket brand based in the Netherlands. A young label looking for a strong brand identity and after two years of growth approached CMK1 to collaborate with them to develop a premium brand position in the leather goods market.
These pierced vessels by John Newdigate came about when accidentally carving through a piece he was working on. John noticed the way light was projected onto the opposite side of the vessel, like a pin-hole camera.