"Design is about passion. You have to love what you do and do it with everything you've got", says industrial designer Tara Deacon whose Dandy crocheted stool was recently displayed in designer Haldane Martin's showroom in Cape Town.
After graduating from the University of Johannesburg, Tara completed a five-week internship with Haldane last year, which she says has opened many doors. 'It was the most chaotic fantastic experience. I lived with a different person every week", recalls the 22-year old.
She's now based in Johannesburg and, when she's not designing ceramic water jugs or quirky furniture, she blogs about food, fashion, and design, naturally"
Featured on VISI online
July 22 2013
"Capsule Projects’s ecological fashion drive, Tomorrow Society, has unveiled three clothes-recycling bins by local designers. Innovative and beautiful, get down to one of the selected Vida e Caffès to drop off your unwanted clothes today – not tomorrow.
In fitting with the green theme of the fashion
recycle project, designers Tara Deacon, Adam Court and Jared Odell
all sought to do the same with their bins.
Tara made a spaced-out Coke bottle-bottom bin,
which cost her many hours at a recycling plant. But, for her trouble
she got all the plastic bottles in the world she wanted, as well as
first-hand insight into the world of recycling plastic. Her two bins,
titled Solstice, can be seen at the Vidas in Joburg: 24Central in
Sandton and Greenside.
Also keeping things environmentally friendly is a
beautiful bin design by Adam Court, made from recycled pine dowels
and board by Cabinetwork. See it in Cape Town Vidas: Kloof, Prestwich
and Roeland Streets.
Jared Odell’s bin is a product of off-cuts from
previous projects. Dowels and string keep things together and the top
and bottom bits are made from bamboo, a most environmentally friendly
wood because it grows so fast! See it in Durban at the Florida Street
Vida.
After the cut-off date, 15 August, the collected
clothes will be distributed to select fashion designers who will
transform them into contemporary re-creations. An online exhibition
will follow with pictures taken by a group of fashion photographers
during October"
Capsule Projects’s ecological fashion drive, Tomorrow Society, has unveiled three clothes-recycling bins by local designers. Innovative and beautiful, get down to one of the selected Vida e Caffès to drop off your unwanted clothes today – not tomorrow.
In fitting with the green theme of the fashion recycle project, designers Tara Deacon, Adam Court and Jared Odell all sought to do the same with their bins.Tara made a spaced-out Coke bottle-bottom bin, which cost her many hours at a recycling plant. But, for her trouble she got all the plastic bottles in the world she wanted, as well as first-hand insight into the world of recycling plastic. Her two bins, titled Solstice, can be seen at the Vidas in Joburg: 24Central in Sandton and Greenside.
Also keeping things environmentally friendly is a beautiful bin design by Adam Court, made from recycled pine dowels and board by Cabinetwork. See it in Cape Town Vidas: Kloof, Prestwich and Roeland Streets.
Jared Odell’s bin is a product of off-cuts from previous projects. Dowels and string keep things together and the top and bottom bits are made from bamboo, a most environmentally friendly wood because it grows so fast! See it in Durban at the Florida Street Vida.
After the cut-off date, 15 August, the collected clothes will be distributed to select fashion designers who will transform them into contemporary re-creations. An online exhibition will follow with pictures taken by a group of fashion photographers during October.
www.capsuleprojects.com- See more at: http://www.visi.co.za/content/article/2333/fashion-bins#sthash.yjjvv
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