The Fringe: Cape Town’s Design and Innovation District is launching a monthly designer goods market at Harrington Square (cnr Harrington and Caledon Streets) in The Fringe.
The market is in partnership with key stakeholders in the area, especially the Cape Craft and Design Institute and the Cape Town Fashion Council, Woodheads and the Fledge Creative Catalyst for young designers.
What distinguishes it from other popular weekly markets is its emphasis on locally produced, original handmade products. It will be the perfect place to purchase a wide range crafts, fashion, decor, jewellery and accessories, proudly produced in South Africa.
Aptly named “The Fringe Handmade”, the market will run from 10am to 6pm on 3 December 2011.
Facebook event here.
XKCD has won the internet for the week … and it’s only Monday.
A chart of money, all of it, where it is and what it can do.
Check out Randall’s “Money” superpost (here’s the direct link to zoom and explore). Once you get over the shock and awe of putting this together, then we can all talk about what it means.
This is effing beautiful. Especially check out the trillions panel, and the total value of outstanding derivatives.
(via jakke, jtotheizzoe, xkcd: Money)
So many amazing little pieces to this. The velociraptors, the only-somewhat-progressive taxation levels, wasted money in terms of unmaintained infrastructure etc, the total costs of providing education to all, obligatory pop-culture references.
Fantastic.
An interweb well won.
thenextweb:
Gidsy has been the subject of plenty of chatter in certain quarters of the European startup scene in recent months and today it launches its public beta. Opening up today in its native Berlin, and expanding to New York next week, Gidsy takes the idea behind AirBnB (a peer-to-peer marketplace for accommodation) and translates it to hosted ‘experiences’. It lets anyone advertise their own activities, or search for and book all sorts of things, from photography workshops to life drawing classes, to parties. If you’re organising an activity, you simply enter all the relevant details to create your listing and then Gidsy handles the booking process, payment by attendees, online visibility, promotions, cancellation policies and customer support. Listing events is free, but Gidsy takes a 10% fee from each booking made through its system. Gidsy aims to become a destination, not just for people hosting events, but for those looking for something to do, too. To that end, it has a beautiful interface for browsing events and event a style guide to help organisers. Even the style guide is gorgeous. (via Gidsy launches as stylish ‘AirBnB for experiences’)
Looks awesome… now to wait for it to arrive down south.
1. Start with what you have. “We started in a trailer,” Kembel points out, “with the ‘d.school’ as a sign on the table.” Kembel’s advice: Claim a space and label it.
2. Go to the people who are interested first. Form a crack team of true believers to spearhead your campaign. Revolutions start from the bottom up.
3. Empower your team to change their space. Somebody high enough up the food chain needs to defend this activity against facilities managers who may not be amused. Then, be willing to keep changing things. Try out different ways to configure space to see what works best.
4. Watch the behavior of the group and take notes. Have somebody in your band of innovators own this task. What’s working, what isn’t? “Try, reflect, modify,” says Kembel.
Read #5-#11…
Final selection happens in October.
Read more about the shortlist, or World Design Capital selection process, on their website.
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