Bit of self promotion is that we cracked the nod to be interviewed by Jabulile Ngwenya from The Star newspaper for their Verve Technology supplement.
Great article [if we may say ourselves] and we're just stoked they managed to really capture the essense of what it's like to work in an office environment blessed with its own bowling alley.
Check it out..
We spoke to Bill Moggridge from IDEO about brainstorming techniques and relevance when taking on any business project.
Website: IDEO
Oscar E Pena is a Spanish industrial designer who works for Philips. His main message - the future is all about simplicity.
Airside is a multi-platform design and media agency who are responsible for creating woolen adoptable creatures called Stitches which we chatted to them about.
Most important point here - true business innovation is not about the idea itself, it's all about the intention behind and detail of how it gets executed.
Website: Stitches
From customised Vespas to condoms which are packaged in a cartoon and slip on in just 4secs, we went to go see what was new and cutting edge at this year's Design Indaba Expo.
However, we couldn't help but feel disappointed in the quality of the creativity on show. Beaded handbags and trees made from recycled plastic bottle tops are nothing new or innovative and for us there was just a lack of an overall X-factor that is going to launch South Africa as a world player on the design stage.
There is clearly a abundance of talent around and the Design Indaba Expo is an awesome platform to showcase that radical creativity to the public, but those talents need to be focused on changing society and the world though forward-thinking, problem-solving African inspired design and innovation rather than just nice pieces of art.
Critical? Yes we are, but we just know that we as a world-class design centre can do so much better.
After wanting to shoot some video content for Cherryflava for some time now, please allow us to introduce you to the brand-new, Cherryflava Show.
This is the pilot episode [so it's very loose - and is really just meant as a testa] of The Cherryflava Show, shot at the infamous Mzoli's Butchery in Gugulethu, Cape Town.
We've set up a dedicated page for this and future episodes over here - or find them filed under 'the cherryflava show' on the top menu bar.
