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As part of the preamble to the Design Indaba 2012 Conference and Expo, the Design Indaba Filmfest will once again whet Cape Town audience’s appetites in anticipation for this week of creative exchange. This year, the third annual film festival offers a two-week warm-up to this sumptuous smorgasbord of some of the world’s best design.

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John Bielenberg thinks wrong. And he's changing the world, one design project at a time. Design Indaba chats to this mastermind about his creative progeny. In 2003 John Bielenberg founded Project M, a programme that is built on the premise “Think Wrong” as a means of making the world a better place through design. “Thinking wrong” is all about challenging our own orthodoxies – avoiding heuristic biases or learned behaviour: the linear, pre-determined pathways in our brains that Bielenberg maintains inhibit true innovation and creative exploration: “In the creative process, designers are victims of their own synaptic connections; subconsciously we’re following predictable pathways to solve problems [whereas] what you would want at the beginning of a design challenge is as many possibilities as you could imagine. ‘Thinking wrong’ is really about breaking those biases and synaptic pathways to generate a lot of potential solutions before you select and execute one,” Bielenberg explains in an interview with Design Indaba in December 2011.
John Bielenberg will speak at the Design Indaba Conference in Cape Town from 28 February to 2 March, 2012.

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Sissel Tolaas can interchangeably be described as a “scent expert” or “odour artist”. The Berlin-based creative explores olfaction, or the sense of smell. Tolaas works with odour molecules that our noses detect and looks at the language we use to describe our experiences of smell. Here Tolaas takes us around Cape Town, pointing to some of the interesting smells of the city and how we are able to understand emotions from a scent perspective.
Sissel Tolaas will be speaking at the 2012 Design Indaba Conference from 29 February to 2 March 2012.

Publication

Albert Einstein said, "I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." It is from this insight that Migrates 14 takes its theme: Curious.

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Ogilvy Johannesburg has partnered with Greenpeace and renowned South African artist, Strijdom van der Merwe, to lobby the South African government to consider wind energy as a source of renewable energy.

Graphic Design

To coincide with the 33rd Annual Loerie Awards held in Cape Town in September, the second Loerie Awards Student Portfolio Day, sponsored by Adobe, was held at the Old Slave Church Museum on Long Street.

Graphic Design

Designers with an eye for authentic, news-style images for use in advertising and magazine editorial campaigns now have a new conceptual resource from Reuters.

Events

After a decidedly off-the-wall Cape Town launch in 2010, the shnit International Shortfilmfestival will again take place from 5-9 October 2011 in Cape Town, Berne, Cologne and, for the first time, Vienna.

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3D animation specialist Jeremy Holden probably never wants to hear another rendition of Shosholoza. Given that he had to view and evaluate thousands of clips of ardent fans belting out the unofficial Springbok anthem, it’s easy to understand why.

Typography

Giuseppe Salerno, aka Resistenza, is an Italian graphic and type designer based in Spain. "Ten years ago I saw an exhibition about African Art, and what impressed me was how every sculpture had so many geometric details – triangles, lines, circles, squares," says Salerno.

Publication

What happens when you get together some of the world's best known designers, publishers and editors and ask them to crystal ball gaze? The answer is a new magazine from Sappi called 'What's Next?' which takes the reader on a journey into the future of publishing.

Illustration

Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has used illustration and music to tell the story of three iconic musicians for the launch of their biographies in a series of in-store posters for Wordsworth Books. The poster campaign features musical greats Keith Richard, Amy Winehouse and Michael Jackson.

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A year into the formation of an animation arm at Am I Collective, the outfit decided to visit the annual Pictoplasm Festival of Contemporary Character Design and Art in Berlin. They went as tourists hoping to crack an official invite to next year's festivities.

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Shopper marketing is one of the hottest trends in marketing today. It’s designed to target consumers while they’re in a store, and involves every aspect of the shopping experience, including promotions, displays, packaging and store layout.

Events

Paper and design have always shared a special love. And like all good romances, the relationship should come with intimacy, a shared understanding and passionate possibilities.

Events

Calling on all creatives, both professionals and passionate amateurs. Bring the spark and Sahre Victore Wilker will supply the gasoline.

Fashion