Timeline 1999 UCT January 3rd year holidays           February Honours year at UCT begins           March paper sculptures           April paper sculptures           May paper sculptures           June paper sculptures           July paper sculptures           August paper sculptures           September paper sculptures           October Final graduate show Made a collection of modular paper structures, exploring folding, collapsing space and 3 dimensionality. Developed a very playful and experimental work method. Graduated from UCT     November Exhibition at Balearic           December Holiday                     2000 Loafing, Thinking, Playing January Holiday           February Make paper sculptures           March Make paper sculptures           April Make paper sculptures           May Make paper sculptures           June Colour paper toys           July Colour paper toys           August Colour paper toys           September Glueless assembly           October Glueless assembly           November Die-cut invitation           December                       2001 Lampshade no 1 January             February             March             April             May Pleated forms Experimented with folding die-cut panels of plastic.         June             July First lampshade Created my first pleated lampshade.         August Aisle Five exhibition Exhibited and sold my first lampshade at 'Aisle Five'.         September             October Cards, popups           November             December                       2002 Bread and Butter January             February             March             April             May Bread and Butter opens Developed a range for Bread and Butter, including greeting cards, lights and small sculptures.         June             July             August Fairy lights           September             October             November             December                       2003   January             February             March             April             May             June             July             August             September             October             November             December                       2004 Design Indaba, Plastic bottles, 'Strength in Numbers' and 'Other People's Rubbish', Heath Nash cc January             February Design Indaba Expo 01 Exhibited my range of pleated lampshades. International buyers informed me that the work didn’t look African enough. This led to my exploration of a South African design vernacular and experimentation with local craft materials, such as wire.       March             April Richard Mondongwe and the discovery of bottle plastic Met Richard at a local craft market, I was inspired by his wire and plastic flowers.         May 2 new ranges of work Worked together with Richard on incorporating plastic into my wire designs. Created 2 ranges of new work – ‘Strength in Numbers’ (wire work using traditional binding techniques) and ‘Other People’s Rubbish’ (work made from wire and post-consumer plastic waste. The white leafball was the first product in the range, made from hand-bent wire components and leaves cut from old, used milk bottles.     June             July             August             September             October Registered my company           November             December                       2005 Design Indaba, Footprints January             February Design Indaba Expo 02 Exhibited 'Strength in Numbers' and 'Other People's Rubbish'. Met Li Edelkoort (a Dutch trend forecaster). She included my product range in ‘North/South’, an exhibition exploring the similarities between Scandinavian and African design.       March             April             May             June Need for plastic My need for sufficient plastic in the right colours for my products led to the collaboration with a local recycling centre (Footprints) to start collecting, washing and cutting my plastic, giving me and my team the freedom to experiment and create.         July             August             September             October             November             December                       2006 EDIDA, Design Indaba, IYDEY, London January Elle Decoration Awards Chosen as the Elle Decoration Designer of the Year in the EDIDA awards.         February Design Indaba Expo 03 Exhibited the first of my colour plastic range (included the full colour flowerball). Met Enrico Bressan from Artecnica. He visited my studio to view my honours work (folding paper structures). This led to the signing of a royalty agreement for my first mass produced product, which was not made by me.       March             April             May             June IYDEY Awards Awarded the British Council Creative Entrepreneur of the year award.         July             August             September London trip Travelled to London for the British Council IYDEY award with 9 other creative entrepreneurs from around the world.         October             November             December                       2007 Design Indaba, Outsourcing of production, London Design Week, Tokyo Designtide January             February Design Indaba Expo 04 Exhibited ‘one of everything’ and had the incredible honour of speaking at the 10th annual conference, with the likes of Jasper Morrison, Li Edelkoort and Wally Ollins to name but a few. My talk centred around the idea of designing with a conscience through limitations in design.         March             April             May Training of local craft company Attempted to train a local fair-trade craft production company to make the final products, instead of me and my team. This proved problematic, as the outsourced product was not high enough quality.         June             July             August             September London Design Festival Exhibited at 2 shows during The London Design Festival, ’Trashluxe’ at Liberty (flowerball lights) and ‘The New World’ (Other People’s Rubbish and ‘Strength in Numbers’).         October             November Tokyo Designtide Exhibited a broad range of products, including bottletopballs and constructed a full colour flowerball in the exhibition space. Spoke at my first ever ‘Pecha Kucha’ and participated in a talk-shop with Moritz Waldemeyer and Kenji Kawakami, father of Chindogu (useless Japanese inventions).       December                       2008 Lisbon, Coleen, Poise, Milan Furniture Fair, Product development, Vienna Design Week, Tokyo Eco-mall January             February Inspired Lisbon Attended and spoke at Inspired Lisbon, an international cultural program which hosts debates, conferences, talks, workshops, documentaries, a performance and an exhibition dedicated to project-based creative fields. My topic centred around the idea of a national design vernacular and the use of craft as an indicator of a country’s heritage and a possible design direction.         March Meeting of Coleen Coleen set up the administrative side of the business, providing me with more freedom to design new products.           Outsourcing of raw material Decided to outsource the 'raw material' rather than the production, leading to the formation a new company, Poise properties. Poise now collected, washed, cut and formed all the plastic components that make up the end product. Particular materials and colours could now be ordered, making custom work more possible.         April Milan Furniture Fair Exhibited the colourdrop, a large custom built light with Misael. Artecnica launched my ‘Anemone’ light, the principles of which are largely based on the folding structures of my honours work.       May             June             July New product development Developed the idea of the bottleform, instead of the flowerball, and the product became the bottleformball.         August             September             October Vienna Design Week 08 Presented a new line of lamps at the design store Habari. This range was based on a new design process. Previously the basic form of the bottle had been ignored, with only the flat sections of plastic being used. Now the entire form was taken into account, which enabled me to utilise almost the entire bottle for the production of a range of interesting and more eco-friendly products. I delivered a presentation to the students at The Academy of Applied Arts about how I work. The response was so positive that I had 2 interns from that class come to South Africa to work with me for a month.       November Tokyo Eco-mall Installed a series of 18 full colour flowerballs for the opening of a new eco-mall at Koshigaya city, outside of Tokyo. I held workshops with groups of interested pre-schoolers and graduates at the mall as part of the eco-week they had invited me for During this visit to Japan I sought out traditional crafters in an attempt to initiate future collaborative work or crossover between my work process and very traditional techniques.     December                       2009 Product development, Design Indaba, KL Design Week, Zimbabwe January New product development Developed the idea of the milkhandleform, and the product became the milkhandleformball. By a constant process of investigation I discovered a whole new geometry in the actual plastic forms. The handles became the structural elements that were previously performed by wire. The structure became the form itself, tied together with string.         February Design Indaba Expo 06 Exhibited my new line of lamps, including the bottleformball and the milkhandleformball.         March             April Kuala Lumpur Design Week Exhibited a series of work detailing the development of my creative process from 1999 to 2009.         May             June Development of new product range Travelled to Zimbabwe to explore local weaving techniques. I collaborated with local weavers to develop a new range of products.         July             August             September             October             November             December

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