Creative Cape Town

28 June 2010

Good African Vibrations

Senegal’s Cheikh Lo rocked the Cape Town Convention Centre on Friday 25 June, when the second Vibrations Continental Music Showcase brought its African flavour to the City. Cheikh Lo and his band made a one-off appearance in South Africa for this event, which also headlined South African singer Simphiwe Dana. The African flavour of this [...]

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27 June 2010

Finding Design

This month we feature the Find Design website started by a professional architect Sebastian van Greunen in Cape Town.   Sebastian discovered that information on design, whilst available, is scattered all over the web.  “New South African design can be found on international blogs instead of local ones.  Local creative blogs are often filled with lots [...]

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7 June 2010

Ghoema Glitter

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27 May 2010

HALDANE MARTIN RE-LAUNCHES THE GLOBE CHAIR

Furniture designer, Haldane Martin has done it again: The Cape Town-based designer has launched the Globe Chair re-edition prototype at the Rooms on View décor and design exhibition at the Sandton Convention Centre.
Martin, whose furniture design company, Haldane Martin, was founded in 2002, has, in his own words, given the Globe Chair “a second chance”.
“I [...]

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25 May 2010

First Month on the Job

The East City Design Symposium didn’t only mark the end of my first month on the job as World Design Capital coordinator for the Cape Town Partnership. It also underscored for me the amazing privilege it is to work in this terrain where engagement with the city’s leading design thinkers is all in a day’s [...]

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