Perhaps the biggest theme at this year’s Design Indaba in Cape Town was the use of improvised and recycled materials. Driftwood, plastic bottles, discarded packaging and elements of secondhand objects (amongst other items) found their way into the South African exhibition. It was also a global theme with several international speakers at the conference touching on the trend as a result of both recessionary times and a growing eco-conciousness.
The Design Indaba often felt like a meeting point between movements coming from two very different roots: one from the developed world’s angst about destroying the environment and the other being inspired [...]
March 10, 2009
Recycled and Improvised Materials at Design Indaba
July 23, 2008
The Give-It-Bag
The Give-It -Bag was the brain child of a German couple living in Cape Town, Philip and Regina Booth. It looks like a miniature rubble bag (the kind you get on building sites) and is made from recycled shipping bags that have made their way to South Africa. Part of the fashion appeal is the randomness of the graphics as the makers are dependent entirely on what materials come in – the ViralCool packaging shown here seems like a particularly apt choice.
Fifty percent of the profits go to deserving causes personally chosen by the couple such as footballs for township [...]
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