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Design Short

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Design Short

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Sean Jacobs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lhzd1vgtBk

Time to promote some continental filmmakers again. The young ones.

The organizers of Design Indaba, an annual design fair held in Cape Town (this year’s edition was last week), recently commissioned six local filmmakers to make short profiles of the country’s designers. Not an original idea, but the subjects are interesting. Here’s two of the films I like. The profile above is of illustrator and graphic designer Daniel Ting Chong. The film’s director is Alasdair McCulloch.

Here’s one more on graphic artist and rapper, Mr Fuzzy Slipperz by filmmaker Rio Allen:

You can watch all six short profiles here.

H/T Sean Drummond

Further Reading

From Cape To Cairo

When two Africans—one from the south, the other from the north—set out to cross the continent, they raised the question: how easy is it for an African to move in their own land?

The road to Rafah

The ‘Sumud’ convoy from Tunis to Gaza is reviving the radical promise of pan-African solidarity and reclaiming an anticolonial tactic lost to history.

Sinners and ancestors

Ryan Coogler’s latest film is more than a vampire fable—it’s a bridge between Black American history and African audiences hungry for connection, investment, and storytelling rooted in shared struggle.