29 July 2011
Be part of Creative Week Cape Town
When you live in a city inspired by the 3 Cs (connect, create, collaborate), a week is not nearly enough to celebrate local creativity and innovation. So Creative Week Cape town is now nine days long. A legacy event for Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 bid, Creative Week Cape Town is in its [...]
29 July 2011
Design in Deep Winter
Recent adventures in redrawing the world ‘We’re always celebrating in Africa,’ mumbled a friend on Madiba day.’We should work more’. According to popular wisdom, there are two ways to work –hard or smart. Most of us do both, and serious players in the creative industries do more– they use design thinking, a process progressively becoming [...]
29 July 2011
Biomimicry SA and new student thinking
There’s an almost antique episode of MacGyver where the handsome handyman-cum-hero rides to the rescue (again) in the knick of time (again) by breaking an egg over a hole in a radiatorfor the first time! In TV history, that is. Not exactly plausible, but a simple idea that – er – stuck with me. So, [...]
21 July 2011
Winning by design
By now it’s big news – Cape Town has been shortlisted for World Design Capital 2014. What does this mean for the city? It means we’re putting ourselves on the international design map, promoting Cape Town as a creative capital, and continuing to create a city that serves its people. Cause enough to celebrate? There’s [...]
27 June 2011
Silent Revolution Music: Winter Jazz Series
Silent Revolution Music is the coming together of well-known Cape Town jazz musicians Kesivan Naidoo and Lee Thomson in conjunction with Marie Wilcox. Their aim is to widen the South African jazz circuit through world-class events such as the Silent Revolution Winter Jazz Series 2011. “I believe that creative people with new ideas is what [...]




