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More from Kelly today about what she saw at the Design Indaba conference: Graphic designer Michael Bierut of Pentagram opened the Design Indaba and MC’ed the conference this year with wonderful grace and humour. He also offered some valuable lessons he’d learned from a project that turned out well, but didn’t really go according to plan. [...] Some of the DECO team got to visit the Design Indaba conference last week, and today our deputy editor (and one-time NYC correspondent) Kelly Berman filed this report: The ELLE Deco team sat rapt with attention when Dutch designer Tord Boontje spoke about his work at the Design Indaba conference. Afterwards, we were lucky enough to [...] At the Design Indaba Expo, which opens to the public on Friday, Cape Town furniture designer Haldane Martin will be introducing his brand new Baba Papa lounger.
Haldane says that his ergonomically shaped lounger is inspired by smooth water-worn pebbles . The lightweight structure is made from 80% recycled stainless [...] One of the speakers at this year’s Design Indaba Conference is local street artist, Faith47. I see her work daily as I drive around Cape Town, and it’s the kind of work that makes me pause for thought while driving by. The sombre tones and social commentary are unusual for work on the sides of buildings [...] South African textile designer Ronel Jordaan makes beautiful, nature-inspired felted goods, applying the felting process to create the textures and shapes of leaves and flowers, webs, thorns, hides and bark. The most recognizable of all her products are her pebbles and rocks. Her business started out as a small home industry, but has expanded, and now [...]  |
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