Ananta Design Studio: A design house partnering with local craftspeople, creating jobs, empowering communities, and putting local design on the global stage. The work of Cape Town’s local craftspeople was all the inspiration that sisters Viveka and Rucita Vassen needed to start Ananta Design Studio, their design and décor business that reimagines the traditional handiwork […]
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DashDigital secures 16 Finalists in the 2023 IAB Bookmark
Finalists for the 2023 IAB Bookmark Awards were recently announced and DashDigital Studio, a specialised design studio, has secured 16 finalists across four categories. A relative newcomer to the SA awards programme scene, DashDigital has rapidly risen to prominence as a leading design and digital studio, competing with top global names and delivering strategically-sound, compelling, […]
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The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) turned to Boomtown to invigorate its visual identity in a way that raises the space agency’s profile within South Africa yet retains its global recognition amongst their peers. While SANSA plays a vital role in providing the infrastructure and personnel to make sure systems like telecommunication networks, GPS […]
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Architects – creators of the future
Many people think of architecture as work that happens on paper (or in a computer program), but the thought process starts well before pen gets put to paper (or designs get created onscreen), says Landseer Collen, principal, director and founder of BPAS Architects. “If architects only operated in a paper world, we would never get […]
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Eight design trends to watch out for
By Elmarie Harrington 1. AI-generated art The buzzword on everyone’s lips is artificial intelligence (AI), which is shaking up the design world as much as it is making waves in content creation and web development. While AI-generated art has been around since at least 2018, when the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, created using a […]
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