Was the Cape Design Indaba 2012 worth it. Asks Robin Opperman

We recently attended the Cape Design Indaba 2012. This is the annual pow wow of art, craft and design, held at the Cape Town international Convention Centre. If you are a creative or design enterprise, this is the ‘Oscar Awards’ for you. As Umcebo Design, we have been working very hard, on not only celebrating our design successes, but as we do each year, taking new and innovative work to Indaba. This work references our past ranges, addresses... Read More

Umcebo Design, a big tree and COP17

As promised last week, we have a follow-up article on the large tree Umcebo Design is building for COP17, along with images of the building process. Umcebo Design recently partnered with Wendy Chatterton and her extremely creative and generous team from Ukhamba Craft, based in Hammersdale. They have created a tree for the COP17 summit, currently underway in Durban, South Africa. They hope this will be the first of many pieces, which will form the... Read More

Umcebo Design is building a gigantic tree for COP17 out of recycled material

The Umcebo Design team were approached by Nicky du Plessis from Cultural Radius about building a tree for the COP17 Conference in Durban next week. The Department of Arts and Culture wanted a tree made from recycled materials. They also required 3 000 leaves made from recycled materials, which could be attached separately by delegates onto the tree during the COP17 event, to be held in Durban. The Umcebo Design team has been working in partnership... Read More