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		<title>Nando’s HYD 2024 announces top five finalists in its ‘Screen Dream’ talent search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 08:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter Train &#8211; Peke Boo Screen The search for the country’s hottest screen designs is nearing completion as Nando’s HYD announces its top five finalists for 2024. Kirsty Moolman, Tanisha Neill, Simphiwe Mlambo, Mpumelelo Nyuswa and Walter Train will now participate in an intensive ‘Laboratory of Learning’ before one stand-out candidate is selected to receive ongoing mentorship and business coaching. Facilitated by Clout/SA, the Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search is a bi-annual staple on South Africa’s design calendar. This time around, entrants were invited to answer a ‘Screen Dream’ brief to create a screen or room divider that is not only relevant and functional, but also decorative and distinct, adding to the overall ambiance of a Nando’s restaurant. Tanisha Neill Entries closed in June 2024 and just fewer than 200 emerging designers from across the country submitted screen designs for initial consideration. A shortlist of 10 promising designer-makers was selected at the beginning of August 2024, namely, Nicky van den Aardweg, Josh and Pia McFindlay, Margo Kritzinger, Annabelle Brown, Sarafina Maluleka and the aforementioned five finalists. All were invited to a one-day immersion at Nando’s Central Kitchen in Lorentzville, Johannesburg, on Friday 6 September 2024. ‘The HYD programme [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tech meets tactile: Clout/SA collaborates with Keiskamma Art Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Along the edge of the Indian Ocean, on a strip better known as the Sunshine Coast – roughly halfway between Port Alfred and East London – sits the idyllic seaside village of Hamburg. Be it the rolling hills blanketed by indigenous vegetation that define the drive to Hamburg, or the birdlife in the area, or the Keiskamma River estuary that welcomes you into the village, the area is arguably one of the most beautiful parts of the Eastern Cape. It is also home to the multi-award-winning Keiskamma Art Project (KAP), which was founded in 2000 by Dr Carol Hofmeyer. Over the past two decades and four years of its existence, the project has produced major embroidered textile artworks, made by the women and men of Hamburg, sharing their stories and experiences, as well as bringing to visual life the oral history tradition of the Eastern Cape. Now, for the first time since its founding, three artists from the project, namely Anelisa Nyongo, NozibeleNxadi and project director Cebo Mvubu, have lent their skills and their particular aesthetic to a design collection 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SA’s hottest young design talent to be foregrounded by Clout/SA as part of 100% Design Africa at this year’s Decorex Africa Reimagined</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2022 07:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 2016, Nando’s has been firing up the local design scene with its Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search, unearthing new names and launching careers. Now, in 2022, the competition is in its fourth iteration. Not only has HYD called on upcoming designers to submit new ideas before 31 May 2022, but a major display of previous finalists and all the winners’ pieces is also planned. &#160; View of a section of The Nando’s Hot Youngdesigners retrospective featuring work by recentfinalists and includingBackdrops: pattern Design by Zinhle Sithebeincolab with The Ilukuluku partnership.Stand design and concept: Tracy Lynch/Clout/SABanners and poster design: Jo SkeltonFeatured Designers: Siviwe Jali, lights colabwith Ashanti designKhosi Leteba colab with Wiid designJan Ernst ceramic side table and candelabra.Katlego Tsuma co lab with Dokter and MissesSipho Twala Kwebula design.Recycled lights by Our WorkshopBench by Anele Vesi. Curated by Clout/SA’s creative director Tracy Lee Lynch, this showcase will form part of 100% Design Africa, which is co-located within Decorex Africa Reimagined, taking place from 16-19 June at the CTICC and 28-31 July at the Sandton Convention Centre. Included in the HYD exhibition will be work by Katlego Tshuma, Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe, Samantha Foaden, Thabisa Mjo, Khosi Leteba, Siviwe Jali, Christian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South African social distancing solutions achieve success internationally</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the foreseeable future, social distancing will remain on the menu for the restaurant trade. The challenge this presents for sit-down establishments who want to create superlative experiences for diners while adhering to health and safety regulations, calls for innovative thinking. Nando’s Design Programme Creative Director and the founder of Studio Lee Lynch, Tracy Lynch perceived that social distancing requirements presented an opportunity to engage with designers to find solutions. So, at the start of the global Coronavirus lockdowns in 2020, she started working on a series of screens and furniture accessories that would not only serve to make social distancing a bit more intuitive, but would also provide as enriching an aesthetic experience as possible. These designs were included in the Nando’s Portal to Africa &#8211; https://bepartofmore.com/public/products &#8211; and made available to purchase by over 2 500 Nando’s restaurants across the globe. Over the past five years, together with Nando’s Property Director, Michael Spinks, and with the full support of Nando’s, Lynch and her team developed the Portal to Africa as an online marketplace that connects South African designer-makers to interior designers working on Nando’s restaurants around the world. Thus far, the project has been incredibly well received in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Right here, Right now!” exhibition extended due to public demand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2021 08:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the great success of Right here, Right Now!, which originally ran from 21-25 June 2021 as part of the inaugural Cape Town Design Trail, the exhibition has been extended until the end of July 2021. The up-to-the-minute showcase of contemporary South African design and art can be found at historic Union House in Cape Town. The exhibition will adhere to COVID-19 protocols and the number of visitors allowed at one time will be limited. Guests are asked to book an appointment to view during the daytime, at either 11:00 or 14:00, from Tuesday to Friday each week. Right here, Right Now! is curated by Clout SA creative director Tracy Lee Lynch and is presented by Clout SA in collaboration with arts consultancy HUB. The exhibition showcases an astounding outpouring of work by a dynamic mix of emerging young designers, well-known design studios and individuals, and a range of artists and artisans. Names to look out for include innovative designers such as Wiid Design, The Urbanative, Nando’s HYD 2020 winner Katlego Tshuma, Khosi Leteba, Glorinah Mabaso, Mash. T Design Studio, and many more. Right here, Right Now! serves to introduce both Clout SA and HUB to the architectural and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Clout SA, the innovative initiative that is taking South African design to the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2021 09:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 2021 will mark the official launch of Clout SA, a purpose-first enterprise, creative agency, and business-to-business (B2B) market-maker for South African design, which states among its goals the promotion of South Africa’s creativity, craftsmanship, heritage, and creating opportunities for collaboration between designers and makers. While many members of the public will be finding out about Clout SA for the first time, the agency’s team has been hard at work building up to this moment for nearly seven years. Much of that work was done on Clout SA’s founding project, the Nando’s Design Programme and eventually, the Nando’s Portal to Africa, an online shopping platform for designer furniture that has facilitated more than R60 million worth of sales across 20,900 products since it was launched in 2018, making it one of the country’s largest exporters of South African design. There are approximately 1 200 Nando’s restaurants located across the globe from Washington DC to Dhaka, and each space showcases bold, bespoke furniture items which are procured through the Portal to Africa. As part of the Nando’s Design Programme, Clout SA has developed and facilitated one of South Africa’s top biennial design competitions, the Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search, which [...]]]></description>
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