Future of Design

Hestelle Robinson

The Future of Design offered for the first time at the Johannesburg Expo, feature “design with a conscience”. Some of South Africa’s leading designers showcase their environmentally friendly designs.  

Clever Little Monkey is a design house started by Yulande Roxburgh geared mostly at creating eco-friendly child-safe furniture and decor designs which are marketed through their online shop www.cleverlittlemonkey.co.za. CLM design also extends its designs into finding solutions for teens and adults.  CLM promotes the concept of repurposing materials and reusing furniture designs which is becoming more of a necessity in today's massive "consume-and-discard" society. Their range includes cots which convert into beds and then floating bookshelves as well as several recyclable cardboard furniture designs and space saving concepts.
 
The CLM approach is that furniture should either be made from recyclable materials, be made to last or to be repurposed or be made from reclaimed materials. The Office caddy is made from layered reclaimed PVC used in promotional printing.  This tidy-all with 4 levels of shelves inside can be rolled around in the office or studio to hold desk top accessories/paints/supplies etc. The interesting die-cut shapes allow for multipurpose use. By reclaiming and re-using plastic that would have otherwise gone into landfills, CLM would rather give it a new funky purpose in the house or office.
 
Limited edition available for sale.
 
Clever Little Monkey - 
tel: 0861 000 993  |  fax: 086 519 6553 
www.cleverlittlemonkey.co.za
 

ALDI CHAIR
 
Designed by Ewaldi Grove in 2005 when she was a 2nd Year Industrial Design Student at CPUT.  3 of her Designs were nominated by Telkom and HOMEMAKERS as finalists in the 2005 Telkom Touch Tomorrow in Design Competition. The Aldi Chair came 3rd nationwide.
The Aldi Chair is a comfortably stylish chair that is inspired by the simplicity and honesty of aircraft and automobile seating. Although its components are contrasting in materials they work aesthetically and harmoniously together.
The chair will be developed in the next year using more sustainable materials and processes.
Ewaldi is currently running an urban sustainable design company, LIV Design, with partner and friend Danielle Ehrlich.

Ewaldi Grové | ewaldi@2livliv.com |  +2782 440 2272 | Danielle Ehrlich |  danielle@2livliv.com |  +2783 3888 254

WADADA PLASTIC CRAFT ANIMALS

Forty-year-old entrepreneur Henry Naki has established himself as a sought-after artist, making a living by artistically manufacturing animals from recycled plastic. His exquisite and colourful displays of animals, with a taste of Africa, have taken the South African craft industry by storm.

Born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape, Henry was raised by his grandparents. He then moved to Cape Town in 1984, married and had two children. In 1992 Henry was involved in a car accident causing a permanent injury to his hand. Being unemployed due to his hand injury, he became involved in the craft industry with a group of Rastafarians who created art works made of scrap wires. 

Not being able to bend the wire, he then decided to create the quirky plastic animals, which are his bread and butter to this day. Henry gets his inspiration from pictures in books, friends that make flowers from recycled plastic and paper, as well as his colleagues at the Cape Craft and Design Institute of which he is a member. “I have a good life since I started to make my animals. My wife loves helping and it is our only form of income,” he says.

His product line has since developed. He first became famous for his recycled  chickens, but today his range includes a wide variety of animals including zebras, giraffes, pigs, flamingos, ducks, goats, elephants, cows, mice and dogs. “I take note of what the public wants and then I make it.”

ARTIST: Henry Naki |  CONTACT: 083 318 0866

'Glens copper tube table'!
 
Materials: 
Wood - Acacia Mearnsii (Black Wattle) from the southern cape, classified as an alien but has very similar characteristics and features to Acacia Melanoxylon (Black Wood). 
Tube - A grade copper tube, textured and sealed.
 
Design:
The main idea is use of the two materials - materials that are used in unrecognised applications and not applied to design and function.
 
Price: R7 000.
 
Glen Napier |  0823707277  |  gbn@vodamail.co.za

on.off?

"Remember how we always got told to turn off the tap and not to waste water?
Well these days, we really cannot afford to waste anything, not the least of which, electricity."

Raised awareness and conservation promotion are the big ideas behind this design.
It strives to illustrate the parallels between the nature of light and water, both as an energy, and as a life giving force that cannot be wasted..

The use of pre-manufactured materials, such as copper piping and brass mouldings, embraces a clearly recognisable iconography,
while keeping the carbon footprint of this design to near zero.

With the tap as the dimmer, one becomes acutely conscious of how much light is needed, and is being used.

So... only use what you need, and this lamp shows us how.

Selling price: R1899.00 |  Greg Gilowey  |  0839744442  | greg@greggilowey.com

MSB Design

MSB Design conceptualized “The Ultimate Sachet Jug”, an injection moulded jug designed for milk sachets. 74% of all milk consumed in SA is sold in sachets. Environmentally sachets are more eco friendly than traditional plastic milk bottles, containing as much plastic as the screw-cap in the lids of a plastic bottle.
 
The engineering:

• The USJ has been engineered specifically to follow the shape of a sachet.
• The base of the jug is curved & angled forward to support the sachet.
• The walls of the jug fit securely around the sachet.
• The front-wall is angled to support the sachet, during pouring.
• The patented suspension device grips the top of the sachet in a unique way, to prevent it from collapsing into the jug.
• The jug clip has been moulded in a unique way, creating torsion by manipulation thus eliminating the need for other parts, such as springs.

 Desere Strydom and Gavin Boaden | desereb@telkomsa.net | 031 261-3841 | 083 778 9092

Rooikop

One Sunday evening and a couple of plastic bags later Rooikop was born.  

Small Town redhead, Zoe Willems’s passion for design, fashion and the planet was the driving force behind the creation of Rooikop’s range of sustainable products.  The Rooikop bags are made of 100% recycled plastic shopping bags and unique in design.

The Rooikop team made it their mission to not just fill the world with beautiful products but at the same time clear SA’s landfills one plastic bag at a time.  We also realized that being truly sustainable goes beyond just green but also needs to be profitable and something we truly enjoy.

Though only three weeks in the making, Rooikop has already sparked loads of interest, which resulted in the development of our very own recycling center.  Please follow our website/blog for updates.

Rooikop’s designs are quirky and fun!  

Visit www.rooikop.co.za for more information or call Zoë Willems on 082 875 8277