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		<title>“Next Gen” eco designer ware launches on NEXT21</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going green AND supporting local is now easier than ever! This is thanks to the new export-ready, sustainable homeware and fashion items launched as part of NEXT21, an exhibition of South African design which has just gone live. Now in its fourth iteration, NEXT is an export development initiative of the Craft and Design Institute (CDI) that has achieved much success in promoting South African design to international buyers. The annual exhibition is also aimed at showcasing the best of local to South African retailers, interior designers, decorators and members of the public. This year, among the exciting new designs on offer from more than 20 exhibitors from across the country, there are a number of brands that base their production on recycling, upcycling and ingenious use of sustainable materials. The eco highlights of NEXT21 are: Eco Furniture Design From its humble beginnings in a garage, Eco Furniture Design has spent the last decade fulfilling its vision of being an environmentally and socially aware company. The brand now has two contemporary furniture stores – one in Durbanville and the other in Woodstock, Cape Town – alongside its factory, where it manufactures the superbly understated, functional furniture for which it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bags of local style at NEXT21!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local fashion accessories are taking it to the next level at NEXT21, an exhibition of export-worthy South African designs that are ready to take on the world. NEXT is an export development initiative powered by the Craft and Design Institute (CDI) and is now in its 4th annual incarnation. This year, more than 20 nationwide exhibitors will showcase products on an all-new online platform. The virtual exhibition is supported by the City of Cape Town and is free to view. It consists of a filmed walk-through that will bring displayed products and producers to life with interactive pop-up windows revealing informative videos, housing interviews and need-to-know facts about the fresh products that are being launched on NEXT21. The platform goes live on 25 March 2021 and runs until March 2022. The exhibition is geared to stimulate trade. For fashion buyers and retailers &#8211; both local and international &#8211; the undeniable highlights are the new purse, clutch, handbag, tote and tog bag collections being presented by a trio of proudly South African designers, namely, WREN, Mors Design and Chimpel. WREN innovatively coats, folds and stitches paper into accessories such as laptop sleeves, wallets, tog bags and totes. The company opts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SA’s next-gen textiles debut at NEXT21</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 06:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keen to discover the next generation of local textile designs? Look no further than NEXT21, the Craft and Design Institute’s (CDI) fourth annual trade exhibition of the hottest new export-ready South African designs. For 2021, NEXT features 7 outstanding textile producers who are launching new fabrics, homeware items and accessories as part of the exhibition, which sees a total of 24 local design houses put forward their best new ranges to the market via an online platform. Over the last four years, NEXT has developed a sterling reputation as a go-to sourcing point for international buyers, exporters, retailers, interior designers and decorators. This year is no different. Yet NEXT21 is made particularly exciting by the wide range of fresh textiles made by producers from across South Africa. Virtual visitors can expect to see the latest from Africa Ignite, Barrydale Hand Weavers, African Jacquard, Cape Alpaca Products, Cotton Tree, Amelia Jackson Industries and Chic Fusion. Africa Ignite ignited local imaginations when they burst onto the scene with ultra-colourful, hand-embroidered products employing recycled maize bags as the base for dazzling geometric patterns. For NEXT21 the KwaZulu Natal-based award winning rural development agency has launched a new range of scatter cushions in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art Multiplied at Open Design Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artworks made in the multiple are at the centre of three inter-related events at Open Design Cape Town, hosted by EDITIONS Cape Town at Cape Town City Hall. To kick off Open Design on Thursday 13 August, Katherine Bull and Warren Editions performed,​ Lessons in Transformation The Speech. This site-specific performance was dedicated to the occasion of Nelson Mandela&#8217;s first public speech, made on the veranda of City Hall on 11 February 1990 – the day of his release from prison. &#160; Bull interprets by means of engraving onto perspex the projecting moving image of Mandela’s speech. The artist distills the moving image into the four process colours – yellow, magenta, cyan and black. These become the matrices for a colour combination print. Printing took place by Warren Editions while Bull engraved the matrices, bringing together a partnership of mark-making and the impression of these marks in ink on substrate. The performance spread out in two rooms – one dedicated to a satellite studio space for Warren Editions. The imprint of the matrices over one another blends the four process colours into a full chroma of the moving image interpreted by Bull. &#160; Occurring alongside, the exhibition HOST is organised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nando&#8217;s Hot Young Designer 2015</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2015 09:16:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cape entrepreneur aims to help end “bucket system” with low-cost, green loo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2015 12:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the City of Cape Town services several hundred “bucket toilets” in informal settlements, there are more than 70 000 households that have little or no sanitation. Fortunately, an affordable, green solution to the “bucket system” that is also a viable alternative to flush plumbing, could soon be available… The Lovely Loo, a self-contained, waterless, private, self-composting toilet was designed by Francois De Flamingh, the owner of United Development. In 2014, The Lovely Loo was selected as a finalist in the Better Living Challenge, a competition that aims to surface affordable green solutions to low-income housing problems, and to help support those solutions getting to market. The Better Living Challenge is project-managed by the Cape Craft + Design Institute (CCDI), on behalf of 110% Green, an initiative of the Western Cape Government. On realising the enormous potential of The Lovely Loo, the Better Living Challenge channeled exhibition funding towards developing a full-scale, working prototype that was displayed at the Better Living Challenge Showcase in October 2014. Thereafter, it was decided that The Lovely Loo would be tested in a real-life situation to determine its strengths and iron out any design weaknesses. The Lovely Loo working prototype was donated to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Better Living Challenge showcase at the Cape Town Station Forecourt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2015 08:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Better Living Challenge Showcase is an interactive event taking place from Tuesday, 28 October to Saturday, 8 November 2014. The exhibition will be officially opened by Premier Helen Zille, MEC Bonginkosi Madikizela (Human Settlements) and MEC Alan Winde (Economic Opportunities) on Thursday, 30 October 2014. There will be lunchtime talks taking place from Wednesday, 29 October 2014. Exhibition opening times are as follows: Monday to Friday from 09H00 – 17H00 and 09H00 – 13H00 on Saturdays. On show at this event is a display of solutions by the finalists and exhibitors whose projects were entered into the Better Living Challenge. These innovative, affordable and green solutions aim to address some of the problems faced by people living in low-income communities. Better Living Challenge finalist, James van der Walt’s SolarTurtle solution, will power the entire exhibition off-the-grid at the Cape Town station forecourt. SolarTurtle is a solar-powered energy distribution point securely housed in a 6m shipping container. The container is fitted with a solar battery charging station capable of charging hundreds of battery packs every day. In low-income communities, SolarTurtle functions like a local spaza shop where a local resident will own and operate the SolarTurtle and neighbours will bring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Better Living Challenge announces its Finalists!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The eagerly anticipated shortlist of finalists and exhibitors who have been selected to form the Better Living Challenge Showcase in October 2014 has at last been announced to the public. The Better Living Challenge Selection Panel has made its choice, and it’s now time to share these green solutions aimed at addressing some of the problems in low cost living. The panel has identified 23 finalists and 33 exhibitors – out of an impressive number of 130 total entries received – whose solutions embody the aims of the competition. The Better Living Challenge has been on the hunt to uncover solutions and ideas to improve the lives and homes of people living in low-income areas. Groundbreaking products and innovations that are affordable, well designed and green, are being brought to life through the competition. Over 130 innovative ideas were entered into the Challenge, in three separate categories, in the hope of landing one of three grand prizes that each consist of half a million rand’s worth of support services to enable these solutions getting to market. Three student entries will each receive a R40 000 cash prize. After a rigorous selection process involving heated debate and extensive discussion, the Better Living [...]]]></description>
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