Creative Week Cape Town

Join Creative Cape Town, Cape Town Design Network and VISI for “Meet the Makers,” a special sneak peek into the inner workings of some of Cape Town’s most dynamic design studios. A select group of innovative Cape Town designers will host exclusive tours of their studios.

During “Meet the Makers”, attendees will have the opportunity to see work in progress and intimately view the environment in which Cape Town designers produce original, thought-provoking creations. This is the perfect opportunity for those interested in design to learn about the different designers, their methodologies and studio culture. Attendees will also receive a fabulous goodie bag courtesy of VISI.

A special “Afternoon at ” event will feature full design collaborative in The Fringe, Cape Town’s Innovation District.

Five uniquely different design companies and a team of freelancing entrepreneurs across various design disciplines are housed in The Bank. Living up to the slogan “creativity exchange”, The Bank is the first entity of its nature in The Fringe where individual companies have clipped into a bigger entity to facilitate the exchange of creative ideas, pooled experience, networking and opportunities.

A fun play on the building’s past, this sturdy piece of pre 1950’s architecture, including a rather impressive vault deep in its foundations was The First National Bank Cape Town Headquarters until it closed its doors in 2005. Today, this bank has been given a second lease on life, and rebranded accordingly, but with creativity as its commodity, not South African Rands.

The Bank Team includes:

Furnspace 3D – South African distributors of InteriCAD, Professional Interior Design Software. The Furnspace 3D team is made up of trainers, technicians and freelancers, all highly skilled in InteriCAD, a 3D visualisation and communication tool which takes any design concept and turns it into a photo-realistic 3D environment.

FVE Interiors – dynamic interior design company, specialising in adding value in creating suitable interior design solutions for the retail, commercial, hospitality and residential markets.  FVE Interiors includes The Creative Studio, an empowering collaborative floor space for young freelance interior designers.

Aidan Bennetts Designs - specialising in product design, bespoke solutions, 3D visualizations, Interior design.

Formula D Interactive – Formula D Interactive is a company that conceptualises, designs and produces interactive learning environments for institutions, museums, corporates and science centres through the use of cutting edge technologies. Formula D focuses on creating learning environments that engage users in a way that creates a lasting effect and a memorable experience that engages as many senses as possible.

- Everybody Love Everybody is a collaborative in which carefully curated independent designers with divergent skills and a propensity to collaborate come together in a space which runs events to enhance the space for its designers and provide them with exposure. The Everybody Love Everybody team includes:

Jesse Ede - Industrial designer/ artist

James Bisset - Industrial designer/ artist

Ross Hillier - Photographer/ cinematographer

Christopher Bisset - Film maker/ architect

Chris Auret - Art direction/ conceptual thinker

Neil Whitehead - Graphics/ illustration/ web

Floyd Paul - Design/ motion/ illustration

Robert “Otto” Henshilwood - Programmer/ web designer

Limited space available; RSVP required.

Disclaimer: This event is offered by RSVP on a first come, first serve basis, and subject to change and/or cancellation. Creative Cape Town endeavors to inform all who RSVP of any alterations to the program.