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		<title>Are you a young South African designer ready to connect with opportunities and grow? It&#8217;s time to let your light shine in the 2026 edition of the Nando&#8217;s Hot Young Designer talent search</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Careers have been launched. Dreams have been realised. Since 2016 the biannual Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search has surfaced the hottest emerging designers in the country – talented creatives who’ve benefited from this coveted business-accelerator opportunity that takes talent out of the shadows and mentors it into the spotlight. Applications are now open for the sixth edition of Nando’s HYD and young designers from across South Africa are invited to show what they’re made of, with entrants invited to rise to the challenge of designing a striking linear light. At its simplest, ‘linear lighting’ is a source of illumination where all related fixtures are arranged in a straight row, providing directional lighting. Linear lights are often hung above a long table or counter. For Nando’s HYD, the aim is to design a linear light that would shine in any Nando’s restaurant anywhere in the world. Sculptural and crafted elements could introduce texture and colour, while combinations of materials create unique and interesting pieces that contribute to the overall design of the restaurant interior. Handmade details created in collaboration with crafters could be important aspects of the concept. Installation and longevity are vital, and an understanding of how the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the ‘Screen Dream’ – Nando&#8217;s HYD Talent Search 2024 entries are now open!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 11:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search is back and invites young creatives to chase their dreams – their ‘Screen Dreams’! Each iteration of the biennial talent search seeks relevant new product designs for Nando’s restaurants around the world; for 2024, entrants have been challenged to design their own sensational screens. &#160; Steel woven screen by TheUrbanative behind server by Sifiso Shange (Afri Modern) at Nando’s Central Kitchen, Johannesburg.Photographed by Elsa Young.   Since 2014, the best young creative talents in South Africa have shared their designs for lights, patterns, benches and servers which Nando’s interior designers across the world have gone on to utilise in hundreds of casas (as Nando’s calls its restaurants) – linking young designers with commercial opportunities. In 2022 Nikhil Tricam and Nindya Bucktowar of Kalki Ceramics were the winners for their flora-inspired Fynbos Server, while 2020 and 2018 respectively saw Katlego Tshuma and Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe taking home the title of ‘Hot Young Designer’. The first edition of the talent search was a shared win between Thabisa Mjo and Samantha Foaden. Mjo of Mash T Design Studio, who described the competition as having ‘changed the trajectory of my entire life’, went on to make history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design and art reimagine South African heritage at Cape Town Furniture week</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 11:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clout/SA invites you to come take a peek at our South African heritage, reimagined. During Furniture Week, Clout/SA, who was awarded runner up at the furniture expo for best stand, and its design and art partners will share a hotel room like no other. They will transform the Sisonke Gallery into a staged hotel room, which will be available for the public to view until 29 February 2024, between 09h00 and 17h00 daily.  This will be a design and art collaborative display, shown in partnership with HUB and Spier Arts Trust and it will feature design items, furniture and art. The showcase features artworks commissioned for the Spier Collection in collaboration with Keiskamma Art Project. Commission enquiries are welcome through HUB. Other collaborators for this project include David Krynuaw who won best furniture and Thabisa/Mash T who was runner up for lighting at Cape Town Furniture Week. Where: Sisonke Gallery, Heritage Hotel, 90 Bree Street, Cape Town CBD Dates: 14–29 February 2024 Time: 09:00 – 17:00 daily for the public to view Clout/SA partners for this showcase: @clout_sadesign @carasavenwalldesign @davidkrynauwdesign @keiskammatrustsa @spierartstrust @house_union_block @studio.kalki @wiid_design @mashtdesignstudio @modern_gesture @ashantidesign @rebulsa @spierwinefarm @capeheritagehotel1780 @sisonke.gallery @furnitureweek.capetown @nandosvreativityofficial @nandos_hyd]]></description>
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		<title>SOL collaborates with South African furniture and lighting designers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘The impact of projects like this is huge. Support from big business buying from smaller manufacturers and makers like us not only helps us upgrade our businesses, our techniques and machinery, it also helps us involve more people. Just this one project has helped three other people who didn&#8217;t work here before,’ says Mpho Vackier, the creative director and founder of TheUrbanative, a South African furniture and lighting design brand. Along with some of the most recognised designer makers in SA, and including three fellow creative directors and founding designers, Mash T Design Studio’s Thabiso Mjo, Lulasclan’s Bonolo Chepape and Modern Gesture’s Candice Lawrence, Vackier recently completed a collaborative design project with the South African team behind the global beer brand SOL. Facilitated by Clout/SA, a purpose-driven creative agency and business-to-business market maker that facilitates opportunities for collaboration between designer-makers and corporate clients, the project saw the designers create new pieces as well as adapt existing designs towards a collection that showcases an undeniably South African design approach, while also celebrating SOL’s positive and optimistic brand identity.  Candice Lawrence Modern Gesture_Tutu light Thabisa Mjo Mash T_Bench Mpho Vakier Urbanative “Live from the Sunny Side” is SOL’s campaign. That light-heartedness and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contemporary South African design meets modern local culinary flavours</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chef Mmabatho Molefe’s modern Zulu cuisine offering at Emazulwini restaurant at Makers Landing at the V&#38;A Waterfront in Cape Town is a celebration of her culinary heritage and childhood food memories viewed through a 21st-century fine-dining lens. Now, the restaurant’s dockside location has been transformed, with pared-back neutral tones brought to vivid life with the use of bold blues and reds, and beautiful and unique furniture and lighting by local designers. Chef Mmabatho Molefe Photographedby Paris Brummer Emazulwini restaurantPhotographed by Paris Brummer &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; The gorgeous new space, which has become a stage for a developing South African aesthetic that pays respect to its heritage while charting the way forward in global style, is the result of a collaboration between Clout/SA, a purpose-driven creative agency and business-to-business market maker, and young interior designer Walter Train. Walter TrainPhotographed by Warren Talmarkes &#160; Train, whose practice is informed by his own diverse heritage, describes his work as sitting at the intersection of two seemingly disparate worlds: one an Nguni upbringing rooted in family and culture, the other a western lineage intimately part of his birth. Says Tracy Lynch, one of Clout/SA’s managing executives, ‘Train is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From creative entrepreneurs to sector-leading businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Creative agency Clout/SA is on a mission to transform the South African design landscape and introduce the country’s brightest creative talents to the world. But in business, creativity is nothing without nous, which is why Clout/SA has been helping designers to master the basics. An understanding of the business world is key no matter what industry you’re in. From architecture to entertainment, music to design, learning business basics is vital for creatives to gain an edge and be successful. It’s this gap in designers’ knowledge that Clout/SA, a purpose-driven creative agency and business-to-business market maker, is successfully filling. ‘We recognised that many of [the designers we work with] have incredible creative talents, but they were missing foundational business principles and practices,’ explains managing executive Nokuzola Jennes. This led to the development of a business mentorship programme, which kicked off in 2019, in partnership with Enterprise Room, a business management consultancy. Participants receive on-site training, before embarking on an ongoing off-site training programme that includes being allocated mentors to help with finances, production and other aspects of running a successful business. Mpho Vackier, founder of award-winning furniture design brand The Urbanative, says the programme helped her realise ‘that I am both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Top 10 Design Talents for 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The South African design industry is at an exciting point in its evolution. Every year a new crop of names emerges to show their talents to the world as local design is increasingly spotlighted on the global stage. The Nando&#8217;s Hot Young Designer Talent Search (HYD) plays a key role in this ongoing industry development by functioning as launching pad for fresh young talent. Now in its fourth iteration, HYD aims to unearth saucy new designs for Nando’s restaurants around the world, and fire up the careers of emerging local creatives. The popular competition, which is facilitated by Clout/SA, has just announced its much-awaited list of 10 finalists for 2022. HYD tasked young designers with conceptualising a condiment unit to display the brand’s acclaimed Peri Peri sauces. The challenge was to do so in such a way that these sauces and their piquant ingredients, which form an intrinsic part of the Nando’s experience, remain visible and accessible to customers throughout their visit. The competition received 134 entries from across the country, making the judging process a tough call for the adjudication panel. The finalists were chosen by a prestigious panel of local and global industry judges including Director of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design Duo Announced as Overall Winners of the 2022 Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2022 12:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an intensive judging process, the winners of the Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search have finally been revealed. Design duo Nikhil Tricam and Nindya Bucktowar, have been named as 2022’s winners. The announcement was made on 26 October 2022 at this year’s Basha Uhuru youth festival at Con Hill, Johannesburg. &#160; Together, Tricam and Bucktowar are the owners of Kalki Ceramics, a design studio based in Durban specialising in bespoke handcrafted ceramic tiles. For their winning entry, they looked to South African flora and desert landscapes for inspiration. Their Cactus Server draws on the duo’s combined experience in ceramics, product design and architecture to create a rich and textural functional art piece. “Utilizing Kalki Ceramics tiles in unique glazes reminiscent of fynbos, succulents and flowers endemic to South Africa, the Cactus Server blends contemporary form with organic materials and motifs to create a uniquely South African design,” says Tricam. Being named as winners of the Nando’s HYD 2022 will open up new business opportunities for Tricam and Bucktowar including having their piece prototyped and included on the Nando’s Portal to Africa, an online ordering and purchasing platform utilised by interior design studios locally and globally to source South African designer items [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Durban Creative receives award for being 2022&#8217;s most prominent new voice in the design world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Siviwe Jali, a finalist of Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search 2020, was recently awarded the Best New Talent prize at Decorex Cape Town 2022 for being ​​the most prominent new voice in the design world. Jali’s work formed part of an exhibition of past and current designs by the various finalists and winners of HYD since its inception in 2016. Siviwe Jali Clout/SA’s director, Tracy Lynch, curated the bold, eclectic retrospective exhibition at 100% Design Africa, which was co-located within Decorex Africa Reimagined at the CTICC in Cape Town. Many of these pieces, including Jali’s three, were brought to life through collaborations between emerging designers and established designers and makers initiated by Clout/SA. Jali’s pieces include Nokhanya Lights, Ntsimbi server and Cupisa bench. The lights are a collaboration with Ashanti Design, the server was brought to life with the assistance of TanDesignSA and the bench is made by Pedersen + Lennard. Jali founded the Durban-based industrial and product design consultancy uMugqa Studio in 2018. With a clear line (uMugqa means line in isiZulu) drawn between identifying a problem and solving it, uMugqa Studio aims to put functional, social design on a pedestal. Lights and bench by Nando’s HYD [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clout/SA launches latest bespoke publication and new furniture pieces at 100% Design Africa 2022</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Known as one of the foremost proponents of South African design as a category brand, Clout/SA is at it again! This time, the progressive team is propelling the local industry forward yet again with the release of a new bespoke, collectible publication. It’s their first to be made available for sale to the broader public after they distributed a gorgeously curated coffee table book to a select few in 2019, and following their inaugural edition in 2018, which introduced Southern African designer-makers to Nando’s restaurants across the globe. Clout/SA Magazine cover featuring pattern by Zinhle Sithebe &#160; The brand-new print publication will be launched at the Clout/SA display stand at 100% Design Africa 2022, which is co-located with Decorex Joburg 2022 and forms part of the larger Decorex Africa portfolio. 100% Design Africa is renowned as the country&#8217;s leading showcase for local product design and it spans a stand-alone hall at the Sandton Convention Centre. “The magazine is a wonderful extension of our showcase and it covers many of our designers and our recent projects,” explains Clout/SA creative director Tracy Lynch. “What better place to launch our latest print edition, which proudly covers new designs by local talent, than at [...]]]></description>
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