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5TH DESIGN INDABA
The 5th International Design Indaba will take place at the Nico Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa on 27, 28 February and 1 March 2002.
Confirmed speakers for the 5th International Design Indaba thus far include the following:
Ron Arad's product design work has the energy of modern art - that's why, since opening his workshop in the late 1970s he has become one of the leading designers of his generation.
By recycling ancient car seats to make the Rover chair, and using scaffolding to create a series of remarkable beds, Ron Arad caught the imagination of a generation that had previously taken no interest in furniture design. Also an accomplished industrial designer, his innovative creations in extruded plastic and aluminium are always in high demand.
Some of Ron's most outstanding work includes the Adidas sport cafes, the evolution of the Bookworm installed at the Cartier Foundation and the Tel Aviv Opera House.
Ron has also served as Professor of Product Design at the Hochschule in Vienna (1994-97), Professor of Industrial Design and Furniture at the Royal College of Art, London (1997-98), and Professor of Product Design at the Royal College of Art, London (1999).
www.ronarad.com
Erik Spiekermann is an internationally renowned graphic designer and font developer. Currently he heads Berlin's biggest design agency, MetaDesign, and is also a founding member of FontShop International. He is one of Germany's leading authorities on typography and, in addition to being a member of FSI's international Type Board, he also collaborated on the publication of the FontBook, the world's most comprehensive reference book on digital typefaces.
Spiekermann travels the world as a typographic evangelist and names designing complex information systems as his hobby.
He has written several books on graphic design and his typefaces include the modern classics ITC Officina� Sans, ITC Officina Serif, Berthold Block�, Berliner Grotesk [tm] and FF Meta+ [tm].
www.metadesign.com
Bulgarian-born Luba Lukova, who now lives and works in New York City, has won numerous awards for her poster designs, including HOW Magazine's International Design Competition Best of Show for "The Taming of the Shrew," and Honor Laureate at the International Invitational Poster Exhibition in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, she began work as a poster designer for a theatre company in Bulgaria. In addition to feeding her passion for poster design, she also produces illustrations for publications such as The New York Times, Time Magazine, Fast Company and Working Woman, to name a few, on topics as varied as abortion, the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal and NATO.
In a climate dominated by complex multi-layered imagery, Lukova's designs are a refreshing contrast. Using limited colour, engaging composition, and hand-lettered typography, her distinctive graphic style is powerful in its simplicity, energetic contrasts and vivid colour, often achieved with a single ink on coloured paper.
Most of Lukova's work is done by hand, including illustrations and typography. Although she uses the computer to occasionally manipulate images, her insistence on hand drawing permeates her work with a wonderful liveliness and organic unity.
http://lubalukova.home.att.net/LubaLukovaStudio.html
Li Edelkoort is the founder of Trend Union, an international forecasting, publishing and consulting business in Paris. Trend Union provides the design community with colour and lifestyle information published bi-annually and its clients
include Issey Miyake, cosmetics giant Est�e Lauder, Paloma Picasso and Marks and Spencer.
View on Colour, also published twice a year, investigates colour trends and examines their influence on fashion, industrial design, graphics, packaging, cosmetics and more. Li is also publisher of Bloom and Interior View magazines.
Studio Edelkoort, the consulting arm of her business, has worked with such diverse clients as Nissan, Philips, Swatch, Mattel, Camber and Siemens Mobile Phone Company.
Since 1999, Li Edelkoort has been Chairperson of the Design Academy of Eindhoven in her native country, The Netherlands. The school is widely known as the incubator for Droog Design.
Trends are broad cultural patterns that show the direction in which society is moving and, more importantly, where consumer tastes are heading, as Dawn Baude once said. Li Edelkoort concentrates on communicating trends without making fashion decrees, delivering crucial information that can be adapted by all kinds of designers. www.trendunion.com, www.designacademy.nl
Manchester-born Mark Farrow has been called one of the heroes of the creative industries by Creative Review Magazine and deservedly so.
Assertive and passionate about design, the multi-D&AD-award-winner; is widely respected for his uncanny appreciation of pop music aesthetics which has been at the root of his massive success as a master designer of record sleeves / CD inlays. He has won numerous D&AD; pencils plus an Art Directors Club of Europe Gold to prove it. Farrow even received Grammy Award nominations in 1993 and 1995. More inspiring than that though, is the fact that consumers have been known to buy two Mark Farrow-designed CDs at a time, one to play and one to keep (as many fans did with the blister pack for 'Spiritualized.') Needless to say, the record companies are appreciative of his contribution to the disk-as-collectible-object phenomenon.
Other Mark Farrow projects include impresario and restaurateur Oliver Peyton's restaurants and bars, the cover design of the 1999 D&AD; annual, a new identity and advertising campaign for SCP furniture, an international nightclub project 'Home' (London, Sydney and New York) and The Science Museum in London. Working with Chris Wilkinson Architects, Farrow helped devise a new gallery called The Making of the Modern World that opened in 2000.
His work has been exhibited in the Design Museum and the V&A;, London. www.farrowdesign.com.
Richard Rodriguez, one of America's most celebrated essayists and journalists, has for the last two decades been examining the meaning of class, ethnicity and race in America - and in his life. His first book, Hunger of Memory, was published in 1982 and is an educational memoir of a "scholarship boy". Read widely today in American high schools and colleges, Hunger of Memory has attained the status of a minor American classic, though it's political notoriety remains in its opposition to two educational programs of the political affirmative action and bilingual education.
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, published in 1992, examines issues of ethnicity in the form of a philosophical travel book which moves from 16th century Mexico to present-day San Francisco during the years of the AIDS plague. The last book in his trilogy, Brown, due out later this year, is concerned with issues of race and mixture.
As a print journalist, Rodriguez has worked for nearly twenty years for the Pacific News Service in San Francisco as an associate editor. He is also a contributing editor for Harper's Magazine and the Sunday "Opinion" section of the Los Angeles Times. His television essays for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer have been broadcast for over ten years, and he has received awards ranging from the Peabody Award to the Emmy. He has also received the Frankel Medal, the highest Federal honor for work in the humanities.
Teresa Roviras has lived and worked in London since she graduated from Elisava Design School in Barcelona in 1987. She joined Michael Nash Associates, where she remained for 6 years, and in 1993 she jointly received a D&AD; Gold Award for her collaboration on the packaging for Harvey Nichols' Food Hall.
In 1994, she set up her own consultancy in West London specialising in corporate identity and packaging working with prestigious fashion designers and corporate clients throughout Europe. In 1998 she received a D&AD; Silver Award for the design of 'Joseph Parfum de Jour'.
Teresa believes in building a close relationship with her clients, and is known for working on a very personal level to create the right image for them. Her style has a distinctive clean, elegant and modern approach and her clients include Joseph, Connolly Luxury Goods, The Scotch House and La Gazelle d'Or in Morocco.
Her recent work focuses on creative consultancy and brand development. Her current projects include the branding of a new organic food company. She shares an office in London with her architect husband, Spencer Fung, and in the near future their new venture will offer a consultancy comprising of architecture, interiors and design.
James Victore is a self-taught, independent graphic designer. Victore's work ranges from publishing, posters and advertising to illustration and animation. His clients include Mo�t & Chandon, Target, Amnesty International, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Portfolio Center.
Victore's posters are in the permanent collections of the Palais du Louvre, Paris, the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and the Museum f�r Gestaltung, Zurich, among others. His work has been featured in exhibitions and magazines around the world, and in 1999 a book of his work was published in China. He teaches graphic design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is a member of the AGI.
Awards Victore has won include an Emmy for television animation, a Gold medal from the Broadcast Designers Association, the Grandprix from Brno, Czech Republic Biennale, and Gold and Silver Medals from the New York Director's Club.
Nadav Kander creates unfailingly beautiful photographs with the formal precision of a master photographer through genres as diverse as portraiture, landscape, and still life. Receiving critical acclaim, his work has been exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Royal Photographic Society and the Fahey/Klein Gallery in LA.
"All of my pictures, the ones that have anything of me in them, tend to be quiet and still. I like the edge of oddness in my work: a simple but slightly jarred composition, a delicately surreal detail, a feeling of friction" Kander says of his work.
Kander's relationship with the image goes beyond the process of clicking the camera's shutter, it is also in the printing. "Taking pictures and printing have always been interlocked for me. I print everything including colour. If someone else printed my work, it would be like reading three-quarters of a good book then giving it to a friend to finish it off for me. There's so much more you can do in the printing, often more than in the shoot," he says.
Kander was born in Israel and raised in South Africa. After serving in the South African Airforce, he moved to London in the mid-eighties, where he still resides with his family.
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