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		<title>Last week to enter your BIG idea into the RE:SOLVE innovation challenge!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you think you’ve come up with an idea for a purpose-led solution to our country’s many social and economic issues, now’s your chance to enter the RE:SOLVE Challenge. You could be chosen to form part of a six-month design thinking programme and win your share of R100 000 in grant funding to develop your concept further. But hurry, entries close on 31 October 2021. RE:SOLVE is funded by the City of Cape Town, and organised by the Craft and Design Institute (CDI), a non-profit company with 20 years of success in developing creative people, small businesses and the craft and design sector in South Africa. RE:SOLVE’s aim is to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit of individuals and teams to co-create bold solutions, with a focus on access to economic opportunities, quality healthcare, food security, and water and sanitation. “The RE:SOLVE Challenge is a fantastic opportunity to join in a facilitated process that will help South African innovators take their ideas from concept to more of a reality,” says Erica Elk, Group CEO of the CDI. “We are looking particularly for solutions that can improve the lives of the most vulnerable in our society. It’s a challenge not just for designers, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Covid could prompt further innovation in SA’s healthcare systems</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Covid has brought with it a myriad of challenges; there has been a more fortunate side effect: it has revealed our ability to do things differently, especially if we operate collaboratively. This insight is not exclusive to healthcare. It just happens to be particularly pertinent considering the pandemic’s significant impact on this sector, and because personal health and healthcare delivery have occupied a near unprecedented level of scrutiny. There are many lessons for South Africa to learn from the last two years. Lessons that can be used to improve the local healthcare system – these were brought to the forefront at the recent #cocreateDESIGN FESTIVAL 2021, hosted by the Craft and Design Institute in partnership with the Mission Network of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in SA. Many of these learnings were surfaced thanks to the uncharted territory that responses to the pandemic needed to navigate. For example, technology was leveraged appropriately to put people and patients at the centre of the solution. We also saw how care was taken closer to patients through multiple models of telehealth which enabled both patients and practitioners to be protected, and connected the need with demand. Mobile phones were used extensively for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation that solves for the nation! Ideas to unlock South Africa’s future…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine an urban aquaponics farm that feeds local communities? Or an App that allows you to share information about poor road conditions? Or even, an electrical grid storage battery… These concepts are not so far off from being realised, thanks to the RE:SOLVE Challenge. South Africa is full of untapped ideas that hold the potential to solve for the pressing challenges experienced by the people who live here. This &#8211; combined with the impact of COVID-19 on the country, which revealed a deep necessity to re-examine and re-imagine how we do things &#8211; is what sparked the RE:SOLVE Challenge. This purpose-led, design thinking challenge, which calls on the entrepreneurial and creative spirit of South Africans to rebuild and pave the way forward, was launched in October 2020. RE:SOLVE is now in its 2nd iteration, with the new 2021 Call for Entry open until 31 October 2021. Funded by the City of Cape Town, and organised by the Craft and Design Institute (CDI), RE:SOLVE invites individuals and teams to co-create bold and innovative solutions with a focus on areas such as transport, hygiene, food security, education, medical care, retail and micro-enterprises. The top big ideas that are identified through the challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better and better &#124; Design Indaba announces 2020 dates as it celebrates 25 years of cultural invention.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2019 07:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design Indaba’s yearly lineup is a highly anticipated event on the creative calendar. Having established itself internationally as one of the premier multidisciplinary programmes in the world, it consistently draws the globe’s luminaries to its stage. But it’s not just inspiration for inspiration’s sake that the conference advocates. With ‘a better world through creativity’ as their guiding principle, founder Ravi Naidoo and his team have continually shown their commitment to positive change through design-led thinking. In line with this powerful impetus, they’ve created a legacy for including speakers in the programme whose work seeks to better the world we live in – whether through technological advances, environmental advocacy, or simply social change that fosters healthier communities. The event can boast star-studded speaker alumni &#8211; leaders and achievers in a variety of fields – that constitute the who’s who of international design. Anyone from Thomas Heatherwick to Patricia Urquiola, Tom Dixon, Brian Eno, Yves Behar, Jaime Hayon, and scores of other global luminaries have graced Design Indaba’s stage to share their progressive work in genres as diverse as business innovation, product design, costume design, performance art, architecture, food design – and many more. The common denominator among its myriad speakers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Herman Miller Acquires Remaining Shares of naughtone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2019 14:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZEELAND, Michigan - Herman Miller, Inc. (NASDAQ: MLHR), the global designer and furniture manufacturer, announced today it has acquired the remaining shares of contemporary British furniture designer naughtone for approximately $46.1 million. Solidifying its ownership of naughtone directly aligns with Herman Miller’s strategic priority to accelerate profitable growth. Herman Miller partnered with naughtone in 2016 by acquiring a 50 percent stake in the company to help enhance its global offering in ancillary and collaborative furnishings, an area in which Herman Miller saw significant growth potential. As a result of this partnership, naughtone has generated average annual sales growth of 35 percent over the past three years. This partnership has helped Herman Miller expand its product design and development capabilities, fueling 11 new product launches and leading to numerous design and innovation awards. &#8220;naughtone has been a vital strategic partner in growing Herman Miller Group’s ancillary product offering,&#8221; said Andi Owen, Herman Miller President and CEO. &#8220;I’m so proud of our shared values, as well the modern aesthetic and contemporary British design they bring to our family of brands.&#8221; Based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, naughtone was founded in 2005 and has grown rapidly in the collaborative furniture market under the leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cosm, designed by Studio 7.5 for Herman Miller, takes home Red Dot’s Best of the Best Product Design Award in the “Office Chairs” category</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This award rounds out Cosm’s first year of success on the market, taking home a suite of awards for the revolutionary design.  Herman Miller introduced Cosm, designed by Studio 7.5, in Milan coinciding with Salone Del Mobile, April 2018. The chair officially hit the market in Autumn 2018. Over the last year, the market response for this revolutionary chair has been impeccable. Today, Cosm chairs have been sold to more than 1,700 companies in 90 countries around the world.  On July 8, 2019, Cosm received the prestigious Red Dot Best of the Best Product Design Award—the competition’s top distinction in the “Office Chairs” category—for its innovation, functionality, formal quality, ergonomics, durability, symbolic and emotional content, product periphery, self-explanatory quality, and ecological compatibility. These criteria are used throughout the Red Dot’s search for “good design and innovation.”  Prior to the announcement from Red Dot, many industry organisations recognised Cosm for its revolutionary design with awards and certifications including: #MetropolisLikes Award – NeoCon 2018 Product of the Year at Mixology 2018 Green Product Award 2019 Best of NeoCon Gold – NeoCon 2018 Interior Design HiP Award – NeoCon 2018 Cradle2Cradle Silver Certification – 2018 Fast Company Innovation by Design Award – Fast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2017 PPC Imaginarium Awards Reveals Its Overall Winner, Category Winners And Runners-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jun 2017 07:09:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[South Africa’s most supportive art and design competition, the PPC Imaginarium Awards, announced its Overall Winner, Category Winners and Runners-up at a gala event hosted on 18 May 2017 at the UJ Art Gallery in Johannesburg. The winners were selected from the competition’s 55 finalists who submitted their concrete art and design works across the categories of Sculpture, Industrial Design, Fashion, Jewellery and Film. (No Architecture submissions made it to the finalist round this year). Last year, up-and-coming jeweller Mignon Daubermann scooped the top prize with her exquisitely crafted pair of tinted cement rings. This year, emerging artist Mziwoxolo Makalima impressed the judges with his thought-provoking sculpture submission titled “Doubt-Queuing”, securing him the prestigious titles of 2017 PPC Imaginarium Overall Winner and Sculpture Category Winner, as well as a total cash prize of R150 000. Makalima’s sculpture, which is fashioned out of concrete and mild steel, aims to be the voice of a voiceless, subjugated society. “Doubt-Queuing” represents a group of community members who have stood for so long waiting and hoping for change, and who have remained as strong as concrete. The concrete represents the strength of the community that has had to endure a queue of unfulfilled promises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Willowlamp customizes its largest-ever art chandeliers for the new Crown Perth Hotel in Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2016 13:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning South African lighting design company willowlamp has created its most impressive art chandeliers to date for the new Crown Perth Hotel in Perth, Australia. Willowlamp’s Creative Director and Founder, Adam Hoets, was commissioned by Australian-based architectural firm, Bates Smart, to design a bespoke series of four chandeliers to be featured in the lobby of the hotel. These astounding pieces, each weighing three tonnes, was unveiled for the first time on 15 December 2016. The project posed a new challenge to Hoets with the design and installation of four clusters on a seven-metre high ceiling, and the pieces being the largest willowlamp has created and installed to date. The solution was found by breaking the clusters into modules, with hidden dropped tiers in each cluster to reduce the overall weight of the chandeliers. Each cluster of the design encompasses approximately 20 000m of ball chain, lending each considerable weight. Illumination for these striking pieces comes from 150 LED G9 lamps per cluster. The result is not not only a technical triumph, it is aesthetically breathtaking, too. The Crown Perth chandeliers are a customised variation of an existing willowlamp design, the Mandala No.1 that is inspired by sacred geometric patterns. The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcing a new version of the best-selling and most recognisable performance chair of all time, the New Aeron® Chair from Herman Miller</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2016 07:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Global design manufacturer Herman Miller, Inc. has unveiled a new Aeron chair that is now available in South Africa exclusively through long-term local distributor All Office. The Aeron chair first launched in 1994 and was unlike any chair the world had ever seen. Instead of a padded throne, designers Bill Stumpf and Don Chadwick did away with foam and fabric to create a true machine for sitting. Uniting human-centred design with Herman Miller’s leadership in innovative technology and materials, Aeron quickly became the best-selling and most recognisable performance chair of all time. With over 7 million sold in 134 countries, the chair is a vital tool for users around the globe and holds a rightful place in popular culture. Herman Miller’s new Aeron retains the distinctive silhouette of the iconic chair, but every component of the design has been updated to raise the bar for performance seating. With the input of original co-designer Don Chadwick, and a dedicated team of scientists, engineers, materials specialists, and researchers who worked on the project for over two years, Herman Miller has enhanced the chair by combining the latest insights in anthropometrics and ergonomics with two decades of advancement in materials, manufacturing, and technology. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative trends in concrete usher in the future of architecture and design</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2015 11:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Concrete’ and ‘innovation’ are two words which are seldom used in the same sentence. Many consider concrete to be a material that cannot advance further in its use. But this is not the case at all. There remain myths around concrete and its limitations, but with technology advancing at such a rapid pace, innovation in concrete may become a commonplace occurrence. At this point in time, however, concrete innovation is still a tremendously stimulating and relatively new field. The latest trends in concrete bear witness not just to the unlimited application of design thinking, but also to the flexibility of concrete itself – especially when combined with other materials. “Cement Gardening”, a popular trend in concrete innovation, is known for ‘greener’ living in urban gardening and is built around the idea of plants growing in cement. It is exciting as it is a successful way in which to create a vertical garden and living wall. Cement gardens capture rainwater, and the multi-layered cement encourages and sustains the growth of specific mosses and lichens directly onto the cement material. Given enough time, the vertical garden and living wall will be patterned with ‘living’ greenery. Another forward-thinking trend in concrete innovation is known as “Translucent Concrete” &#8211; a fibre-reinforced concrete which is used for aesthetic and [...]]]></description>
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