Fashion Design graduate Renee Nicole Sander opened the final year fashion show at CPUT last night with an avant-garde collection inspired by glacier formations....
The CPUT end of year show is always one of the biggest and this year's multi-level exhibition covers design in all its forms....
Over the weekend a team of engineering students from CPUT, Cape Speed, were the first from SA to take part in Formula Student. To rally support for team Cape Speed, a real-time Scalextric race track was built and is powered via social networks....
Philip Robertson, Richard Steele, Lize Loftie-Eaton, Graeme Cuthbert and David Robertson are Five45, an industrial design team who have created The Stayover....
You've probably noticed that we have a newish contributor at 10and5. When he isn't helping us out with posts, Lucas is a full time product-design student at CPUT. He's the kind of guy who thinks the busier the better and so also takes on small-scale projects whenever he can. We got some pics of the latest of Lucas' projects at the Toffie Pop Culture Festival last weekend.
The Box Mudulus © was designed for Bibliophilia - a designer book store located in the Woodstock Industrial Centre - for which he has done previous work, see here. The client was looking for a modular storage solution that would fit into the existing theme of the store, but at the same time had to serve as a stall-setup for the then upcoming Toffie Festival.
The boxes were constructed using CNC (computer numerically controlled) technology, which cut the necessary designs in a material called OSB (oriented strand board), which is fast becoming a popular low-cost material in a furniture applications. Simply put the box’s slide into each other at equal corners, which enables the user to assemble any number of boxes for any variation on either height, or width. The Box Modulus © setup for Bibliophilia amounted to 15 boxes forming 2 stands.
For more of Lucas’ design projects visit his blog dbriefed.
Amy Abrahams interviews fashion designer Zayaan Majiet for Between 10and5:
Zayaan Majiet, from Muizenberg Cape Town, is a talented and skilled young fashion designer. With a great love for animals and qualifications from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, she made the choice to start her own fashion label called Silly Rabbit.
The name stuck after falling in love with Kill Bill Vol.1, Zayaan's all time favourite film. A scene about an hour and 40 odd minutes into the movie where Beatrix Kiddo is having a conversation with O-Ren Ishii, the sentence "Silly Rabbit, tricks are for kids" comes up. It’s subtle, and if you’re not paying attention, you won't pick it up. That is what Silly Rabbit is about. It’s subtle, with big impact. Zayaan draws inspiration from everything she loves and surrounds herself with.
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Shritha Gungaya has done some great industrial design pieces during her tenure at CPUT. One of our favourite pieces at the CPUT exhibition was the Bunny Gadget - a very cute spaghetti measuring gadget that was produced and then sold at this years Good Food and Wine Show at the CTICC as well as at the exhibition. The rest of her work features a concept game console created for Alessi, room dividers, an alarm clock and business cards. A short description of all the works are after the jump.
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[image title="cup_of_copy" size="full" id="689" align="center" linkto="viewer" ] Caterina Toffoli is a graphic designer at CPUT. Featured here is some of the work she's done during her stint at the varsity. She focuses on Corporate ID and Advertising. Featured above is a work called Cup of Copy...
We've previously mentioned that November is Student Month here at 10and5 and we're planning on sticking to the theme. Next week and Wednesday (the 18th of November) you can view all the work from CPUT design faculty. In their words: The official opening takes place from 6pm...
