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		<title>South Africa’s brightest emerging talent scoops grand prize in the inaugural PPC Imaginarium, the country’s most supportive art and design competition to date</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa’s most creative young design project has just been revealed: the overall winner of the inaugural PPC Imaginarium Awards was announced on 05 March 2015 in Cape Town. The competition announcement took place at the Youngblood Foundation Gallery on Bree St, and the event formed part of the popular First Thursdays initiative. In its inaugural year, the PPC Imaginarium has sought to establish and unearth unknown creatives across six disciplines (film, industrial design, fashion, jewellery, architecture and sculpture). The competition received a staggering 477 entries from South Africa’s best and brightest designers and artists, who all used concrete as a medium of expression. Winners in six categories  were carefully selected and their work showcased at the UJ Gallery in Johannesburg. Thereafter the exhibition, which was curated by Stephen Hobbs, travelled to the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town where it was put on display for the duration of the event from 27 February 01 March, before opening at Youngblood until 28 March 2015. The overall winning design – a concrete speaker &#8211; comes from the industrial design category. Designers Martin Bolton and Craig Tyndall used acrylic and leather to transform concrete from “being an everyday construction material into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa’s most substantial Arts and Design competition announces its top designers at inaugural PPC Imaginarium Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PPC Ltd has just announced the winners of the inaugural PPC Imaginarium Awards on Thursday January 22, 2015. Cementing its position as one of the largest and most exciting promoters and patrons of the arts and design in South Africa, PPC Ltd a company that has previously been awarded for its innovation and support of the arts; through the PPC Imaginarium Awards, aim to establish the winning designers as leaders in their field. With an astonishing competition entry number of 477 country wide, the winners of the six categories (film, industrial design, fashion, jewellery, architecture and sculpture) were carefully selected and their work showcased at the UJ Gallery. The winners in the six categories are Ayanda Ntsingana for an architectural piece entitled ‘Laingsburg Public Pool’; Bokang Lehobe for a fashion piece named ‘The beast we call fashion’, Anri and Andre Coetzee for film called “Lilith: Genesis”, Martin Bolton and Craig Tyndall for an industrial design entitled ‘Concrete T L speaker’, Chris van Rensburg for jewellery piece called ‘Solid curves’ and Mhlonishwa Chiliza for a sculptured piece entitled ‘Dreaming in hopelessness”. The PPC Imaginarium second place contestants in each category include an industrial design by Riaan Coetzee and Bronwyn Fumo entitled [...]]]></description>
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