South Africa's Cape Town is a city of architectural extremes, from the futuristic, 30,000-square-foot houses of the super-rich in Clifton to the corrugated metal shacks of Langa township. And it is a city of physical barriers. Prominently advertised in the Cape Times are hammer-proof, roll-down shutters that are “extremely difficult to break without the use of power tools.”
It was a different story inside the Cape Town International Convention Centre from February 27 through March 3, where, during the annual conference known as Design Indaba, there are no barriers, professional or otherwise. With Michael Beirut, the New York-based graphic designer and polymath, setting the tone as genial host and gentle interlocutor, design world luminaries took to the brightly colored stage to present projects that in many cases erase lines between disciplines.
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