a well, law goes face designer, joshua gacy, can tell you all about it. check it out for you. next on d, w. a thought they were going to act as a form of expression. that evokes the motion. it inspires change and enriches our lives . it celebrates the human form, and shown case is found as creativity and imagination. welcome to the best take out off band. but before we get into the us, we meet the group of friends reclaiming the streets of johannesburg with by we

find out how endless manda is changing the narrative for interior design in malawi . we then see how he says to from cameroon, on making traditional german journals with african fabric time values that day, and this is f re max. oh, oh, for a future ism is it makes a sy fy history, fantasy and african culture and looked at the future of people of african descent, introducing a man who has read the news and isaac product design in my area. what does john read? why is awful feature is the next trend in interior design?

and so she can see a young designer and founder of speaking with books and artistry. i feel like elephants were taken away from africa and there was sort of a pause in the development of african culture offer features in the shower centers on black history and culture. and incorporate science fiction technology and feature is to go into literature, music and digital arts. our future is in is a movement that takes from what is africa and what is african and fuses it's with, with n as in contemporary culture. it's a collection of all this element from my forefathers and my father's and making me something that works with my own aesthetics to create something that would benefit africans of benefits the world at large for the lines

through currently. so it's not to, to be one of our very popular products, which is the, can my vintage from the try put fun. i feel like all my for very personal to me because they do different stories at different points in my life. what the one that has been angry deep in our hearts is the glass version of the bench. are you? what is the game popular among the people of western nigeria is a game that requires a lot of clean power, much, much more skill. or your is played in a car. wooden box containing 12 holes, 6 holes on each side, and 4 to eat your seeds for seats in each core. so the idea for me was to cut the problem off balance there. so at the are you on one side and add a magazine order on the other side just to create that balance? what are the same times also serve as an aesthetic piece for any,

any living space that will definitely work in the park? i started afro futuristic product design as a journey. it's not something i use decided, oh ok, let me start designing african inspired products. i was working at a client's space and had a need for a product that to work for the space. and then i decided ok, this need is actually not just my need. there are a lot of other people that are looking for something that resonates with them. because what we design goes beyond what we just see. this is the, the breeze. and this is the car, is just basic shape right now. we're still going to find to need to have all this finally finished edges to that equally appealing majorly. the material i use are, would initially i started with this supposed to would that pain that inputted goods

or i recently changed the kind of would i use to look how would cause of the narrative i'm trying to drive more. i've explored other materials like plexiglas. i've explored metal i've explored so many other materials this like this, present to us is designed, assuming the all in for he takes pride in fact that the growth, awful, futuristic art has grown out collected dementia and the money to pay for such art. i see something i find interesting. i took a picture, i just archive. it's the fun place i started as a need for a space coming up with ideas is just a supernatural process that story telling that spiritual deaf and

this is what she gets. we found an african design, so this is a completely assembled piece of the trifled fund. so this is the fund, and this goes on top of this, right? and i'm just looking to perfect my put a get into different pieces. made the right audience. this is basically for the fun looks like it. i've been trying to take my best to the fun. i put it up on my so show me that one page asking if anybody was interested in buying. i put out a pre order on my social media and in 2 days actually sold out the pin funds that, that made. i sold over 150 units of the fun in the space of 2 years. apart from product design, i pain i function in the space, fashion space, the, the engineering space. thank you so much, bye. ok. style or by medium or by industry or any of these things that the teacher

isn't able to breathe from western maternity, even the african artist, voices, people. and i'm going to expect to get them to be sure source to casey and his product designs are in the forefront of these movement. all. ready the day off the 10 year anniversary of the invest take a town aunt fan, the largest contemporary odd fe in africa, held in cape town, with a 106 exhibit, says ed attracts 23000 visitors and is a platform for international art professionals to connect them now joined by loud vincente, the unfair direct at lower level to see you hopefully, larry, to see you. now, can you just tell us a little bit about the art fe, what's it all about? so we celebrate that work pays anywhere 30 and this year. so it's an important here . the ferris started very humbly, was the local fair, very small. and then it grew like exponentially over the years and has become the

most important. and the biggest are fear of contemporary arts in africa. beautiful. and this year's theme is time. can you tell us a little bit more about the field? yeah. so we thought is that pays anywhere 3. so is the right time to reflect on time annually. it will say to our, to raters, that's 15, please answer whatever you want. and of course it has to be consistent. so the answer in different way we have like an answer to time for tomorrow. today, that is related to how feelings and affections are reflects the testing of time that is for the emergence section or the different answer from different media to the concept of time. so moving forward in terms of the future, the odd fe, where's your vision as, where do you see it going?

so for sure, we want to become bigger and larger. back in may be shown it to become a hap, it has to become something that we'll activate the c t at least one or 2 weeks. so we're really wanting gauge with the local community. we look in a situation where museum art is to create like an exciting week. thank you so much lauer for stopping by and having a word with us. they get better. a group of for, in cycling through johannesburg has now become a thriving business that reclaims the streets and brings people from diverse backgrounds together. ah, reclaiming the street. that's what urban cycling is all about. urban cycling feels like the biggest danger. when you are like a kid does the visits capture feels like yeah,

and venture and your kid is riding around as sort of shortly cycling is looked upon as a mode of transport because it's usually handled as a thing that people do, you know, and not what the typical word control person would do the reason i think we should get more people on bikes is because of health benefits . a green economy and bits is the teeth that we get to live in. you know, the live cause we have on the roads. the more people we have on bicycles makes, we're happy with

. it's really to get more people on bicycle young, small old black, white colored forest, and everybody a bicycle less what differentiates as a creek. it's our diversity. we have a meeting point where we speak about the route going to take and we either cycle in so it's all always i call in the cbd and we cycle out maybe stuff some way, get a coffee or a drink and we carry on cycling and finding in the, at like a nice restaurant. it's really just about getting together and socially. ah, so was by 2 vendors, you psycho as you are, you're riding for the destination and nothing of a t. so we don't waste bendix or light crowd or anything like that. we come cheese, we come in short, we come in anything that feels comfortable for us to ride. it's like

a mish mash. and the representation of what job looks like as a multi point started as regular training for better health and meeting as a group of a few best friends has now developed into regular social gatherings to unwind after work. i've seen people who live amidst never known each other, and they lived in the same hood, meet on a bike ride and now the like the best of friends. all because of that, you know, and i think that coming together, bridge the gaps between us as a people, i mean, i think you know what the landscape of south africa looks like. and we lack a microcosm of it. so we try to bring more people together to religious, find each other and see that they actually really all relate apart from cycling that, that it's a pros, every pairing maintaining and restoring bikes. even a new business idea with phone out of the group,

hiring our bicycle and getting you to doing city tours as well. but the focus is not uncovered by them. friendship. ah, since i made the guys from by the members and we started and joining their eyes, they definitely range from strangers to friends and yard. some of my best friends now. i made through fighting virt group of by king bandits. people who had actually joined us in the past years, they have changed my life quite drastically. i should say, you know, you become humble there, you know, meeting new people and i'll be actually teach you of what they know and what you don't know. it's mostly humbled. you saying that i'm willing to learn and that's what i've actually loved quite a lot. yeah. the bandits have come

a long way and they're about to take over the streets of johannesburg. with the next gathering. recently we've taken over critical mass that happens on thursdays. we give everyone in a new one on a bicycle to ride in the city at night. and these will be please like your brow. and other deeper parts of job is that nobody would go to any random day. it's not a thing that people think the idea is that people know that job also belongs to them as well. and they should come back and visit and see, you know, it belongs to all of us. what a great way of exploring the city and making lifelong friendships now black representation in art is important because it promotes visibility, diversity and inclusion. whilst challenging stereotypes and empowering black

artists and a pioneering artist doing exactly that is as an denisha, bella hines and dealer ty valesa. however, i am fantastic, being able to stand within your booth amongst all this color. i mean, you are one artist who is definitely breaking stereotypes and exposing and representing black women in art and an art history. tell us more about that. oh my . so i think my desire to present artists, black women in my arts is quite simple. and it stems from just engaging with our history and seeing the image that i was seeing, which was not very inclusive of the kind of black women. i think we need to see, especially in this particular time. and that's just black women living their everyday lives. and really just sharing different perspective to the desires themselves and maybe even the, the stuff that they sort of like desire or want to be. and i think that seeing that

there is, there was a bit of gap with the art history or painting that i was engaging with and the time now i just thought that it would be nice to sort of like to pick the kind of women that i would like to see yeah, absolutely. is that dealing now looking at your specific artwork and art piece and installation get today? what's your favorite and why? yeah, so i think in this particular booth or this body of work, my particular favorite berg is titled, or nana. i'm clean b or 9 and it is sort of like a depiction of myself and my family members, my mom, my grandmother and my younger brother. but i think the work is very, very much different from the work that i've been doing previously. because it's different, more usa in terms of fresh jerks and but more find that doesn't really take itself too seriously. and i think when i was thinking about this particular work,

especially in the context of this body of work, i was thinking to myself, how do we like it or not a young me with to paint something or to pick something? what would it look like? and i think it would be very expressive and not very serious, but still very intentional. and yeah, i think of it as sort of like a love letter to myself and also a coming of age or woman for, for myself. yeah. so that's my favorite piece. beautiful, thank you so much, then data for having a sitting accents with colors is also what makes a part of agnes. thank. as is where she has in herself with a task establishing interior design in malawi mellow easement for a lot of beautiful things we and on for our leaks are beautiful kasha, a little beautiful people, but interior design is not one of them. in i'm here to change the narrative. i spend as ease,

am allow we in business woman who's setting a new bar for local interior design. this is some ada cafe slash restaurant. my client wanted something interesting with her space. she wanted the place to be very creative. she like bright colors and just she's an over a creative person herself as well. i came up with this happen. so we did all this pattern in a very big bold colors like green's and, you know, there's black and we're, we just wanted this to be a future war. as you're coming into the restaurant, we wanted people to 1st see this design before they even get to go inside. we decided to include this beautiful and then also supporting our local artisans in malawi. we painted the black to sort of like tie in with the whole design and the

feeling and the ambiance of the space as well. it's quite a beautiful piece and we decided to add that nitro, from the ceiling down to a we're talking, can see it just to sort of like pain the whole design to get that it had 6 week to renovate this old house into a trendy modern cafe mm mellow is a net importer, which means that the cost of sa furnishings and home decor items comes at a premium. sourcing therefore requires innovation by working with local artisans and crafters. she's able to treat it's both pieces for the space that she's working in. i think we're gonna find a fireplace here, like the artificial a week offended locally. good to know that it is gonna take about would be 2 weeks or a month. um okay, so we have for 6 bato again and, and the phone place and in this is full day to time assist him in the tv. okay,

let me just do a little scribbling here. and then i show you what, what, what i can scan from here. all right, then maybe i should see through, it's going to be proportional with your boxes as well. all right, okay. i cited my entire exam business as a whole b, i started making cushions for friends and family and co workers. so i used to make them myself at 1st and then fill them to those people. and then afterwards as that it's, i'm home innovations. that's when i started getting clients, i decided to add a little bit of pieces to this space. for example, i'm having this little girl. what takes you, as you can see, you can so that a little my furniture is great, and i like to keep it on the base pena true. i don't like a place to just be blank. i just wanted you to have is your interest. so that's why i brought in this little paper just to give you that visual interest as well as

this driving around. and i felt a little branches and i thought, well, that can be something privy. so that's what i like to do. i love to be innovative. i love to look outside think outside the box when i'm when, when i'm thinking about interior design. oh oh, i try to put myself because shoes. i have to think about bringing the vision to like their vision to life, not mine, and their to advice. if my client want something that does not work at their space to advise them to change it out, but i'm glad in likely to have plans that completely trust me. and somehow my leisure be just told me that do whatever you like with the space. so it's always nice to, to, to be trusted like that. but you always have to find a balance between your own personal style and, and the claims. ah,

i have worked on a lot of home innovations. i have also worked on kathy's at new builds and also a luxury apartments i'm currently working on some luxury apartments. i've also worked in offices as well. so i can say best i work in a lot of areas for this doesn't fit in the aesthetic of through. so i like to change it a little bit more modern. i do love the art itself, but it was damaged. so it's not like registering any. i'd, i'm just trying to make some, i'd out of this because i love to dear, why? so let me show you what i can do with it. you're trying to make it lou labs areas like those kind of what you see in the hotel. so we start by just 1st through the whole i ah,

looking at that beautiful world of interior design is such as i do spend se, there is hope for a re imagined african aesthetic that is not only modern, but it's also authentically africans with interior design like that there is no stopping agnes mendez lean now to sisters who are adding a unique touch to their creation. they create traditional jamie dressers known as during deals from african fabrics and vibrant patterns as a nod to the birthplace. cameroon. this journal is made of colorful african fabrics, but cut to look like traditional bavarian god. it's the work of sister's mother you dental wish, and i'm a veteran from cameron there label. no ne has been designing dental african since 2010 im unique man. and whatever my mother was at taylor herself, and i come from

a dynasty of taylors, i crawled around in fabrics as a child, the fabric is what i know my mother used to, so my clothes and cameron, that's what we nails i this was vic henin. the inspiration for their craft didn't come just from their mother, even their great grandmother and grandmother were taylor's. and although the sisters have been living in germany for, for to years, they still deeply connected to the african culture. that's. that's what i love about my work is that we connect people and i'm a connection myself. my father is occurred and my mother is from cameroon. and i connect, i don't divide added, i feel our work with journals is going in just the right direction. we use clothing to connect cultures and people get withdrawn and equity, lynch. this is been in, in western africa after over a decade of producing journals in germany. this is to move their production to africa in 2022 and hadn't got office it, but we never thought we'd actually produce

a journal in africa picking up is on that's really special to assume. this isn't given. it's a traditional garment, as is it and not at all easy to so this piping is very, very hard to integrate unbalanced math and only our master tailors handle that issue. and it's so great that we really have a product here that is made in benning, made in been they worked together with the charities to have all the done was made in 90 town room in north west and been in here. young people who would normally struggle to access education, receive vocational training. the us and the trainees learned the craft of tailoring the thunder and sewing had turned all is of course, an elite exercise and tailoring dest. neither. what we offer is really an integrated work study training program at and wiley hospitals as the steel the journal african is an article of clothing that connects together to coaches and 2

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