I’m out of action for the rest of the week, as I’m off to the Design Indaba Conference (gonna see Stefan Sagmeister! Naoto Fukasawa! Thomas Heatherwick!). Follow me while I’m there on Instagram. I’m not promising anything, but last year I had lots of fun sketching the delegates, so keep an eye out in case inspiration …
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On a mini-sabbatical
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Everybody loves a rainbow
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In Delta Sky magazine
Fantastic roundup of all things exciting and good to see, taste and do when visiting South Africa (including coming to Skinny laMinx) in this month’s issue of Delta Sky magazine. Click here for the full PDF.
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WDC2014: The yellow tide advances
Have you noticed? Cape Town is slowly turning World Design Capital yellow. I’ve even started noticing yellow things that might always have been yellow, but suddenly, it looks to me like Cape Town Yellow! The latest to join the call to PAINT IT comes from Jason Bakery (only my favourite Bree Street morning stop) where the …
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Lessons from a Monkey
What a hot weekend! Early morning dips in the sea and Myyög have helped us survive, but mostly we’ve stayed indoors, watching and learning from the Monkey, who is an expert in the art of minimal movement. She knows exactly how to lie in a boneless heap for hours, occasionally making token signs of life …
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Spier Architectural Arts
I stepped into a very exciting world yesterday, when I paid a visit to the Spier Architectual Arts building on Commercial Street in the city. It’s a lovely old building, but there’s little to make you guess at the large-scale vision and projects being tackled, the skills being grown, and the sheer busy-ness going on …
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Guardian guide
The Guardian newspaper, in association with South African Tourism, has put together a truly fantastic online guide – an incredible resource for anyone visiting this country. Heck, I’m going to use it myself! So much cool stuff there, and you can select from categories that interest you most. We’re delighted to have been included in the Fashion …
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Shapes I like
Scultures Alphabetique – Paul Cox Left: Hannah Abelow R: Cecil Touchon Grass fabric in mink – Schumacher L: Work no.930 – Martin Creed R: Oil on linen – Lynne Woods Turner The Native Trees of Canada, by Leanne Shapton Photograph by Fan Ho, 1954 Weaving by Brett Wadden “Argolas” …
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WDC2014: Monocle Magazine
January started off with a big thrill for us, when the team from Monocle Magazine‘s film section came to the Skinny laMinx shop, and included us in this great clip about Cape Town and what is happening with World Design Capital 2014 in our city. If you’ve been wondering what #WDC2014 is all about, here’s …
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