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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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				<category><![CDATA[Décor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Candice Lawrence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clout/SA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mash T Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mpho Vakier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SOL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thabiso Mjo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TheUrbanNative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Lynch]]></category>

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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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