Emerging Creatives at Design Indaba Expo, Cape Town

Virgin Atlantic billboard & Detail, One Horse Town

Virgin Atlantic billboard & Detail, One Horse Town


Forty creative talents were invited to take part in the recent Design Indaba Expo as part of the festival’s initiative to identify and promote new designers in sectors including architecture, advertising, applied art, film, fashion, graphic design, interior design, jewellery, new media, publishing, product design and visual art.

The opportunity to show is given to both designers who have just started their own business and also to higher education creative students. The three-day event included a good selection of graphic design talents. See later this week for fashion, accessories and jewellery.

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Slash and Moving Paper: exhibition and competition

The Story of Art, Georgia Russell, 2006 and detail

The Story of Art, Georgia Russell, 2006 and detail


New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) is running a competition that celebrates the use of cut paper in animation inspired by its current exhibition Slash: Paper under the Knife. Upload your own videos to the website, view existing clips, and vote on your favourites.

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KALEID: unique artists’ books, London

KALEID; Folded Dictionary, Sam Winston

KALEID; Folded Dictionary, Sam Winston


Contemporary artists’ book publisher Kaleid presents a group show dedicated to unique books created by artists and selected for their originality and conceptual response to the traditional book form. The exhibition is entitled The Grand Plasto-Baader-Books and runs until December 24 at the KALEID gallery, Shoreditch.

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