February 29, 2008
By Louise Marsland in Design Indaba, Marketing | 0 comments
The irrepressible Gert Dumbar, graphic designer extraordinaire, hates marketers. He told the audience at Design Indaba this morning, Friday, 29 February 2008, that marketing driven design is a disease, probably emanating from America which is anyhow responsible for the evil of capitalism in his opinion!
Born and raised in Indonesia, he spent time in a Japanese [...]
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February 28, 2008
By Louise Marsland in Design Indaba, Marketing | 2 comments
A culinary feast is the only way to describe ’s presentation at Design Indaba yesterday.
Food or ‘eating-design’ as her design work is described in the official bio, is too simple a way to describe what she does. A food magician… a soothsayer… maybe. How she works with food to produce a culinary cornucopia of flavours, [...]
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February 27, 2008
By Louise Marsland in Design Indaba, Marketing | 1 comment
I speak clearly… I write copious emails… I make lists… for event organisers and PROs when covering major events, particularly when we are media partners. Here is my list. Is this hard? Did I spell it wrong?
1. A chair
2. A table
3. A plug point
… And all in the same venue so we can hear and [...]
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