Product Design/2009/3 min/Reel № 09.001
ByHaldane Martin
Haldane Martin Pecha Kucha
What Can Your Creativity Do?/Recorded 2009
A close reading, kept within reach.
Haldane Martin takes product design as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.
Recorded in South Africa in 2009, the conversation is grounded in Haldane's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.
The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.
Established South African furniture designer Haldane Martin discusses his work and inspiration.
About the speaker
Haldane Martin
Cape Town/South Africa
Haldane Martin is a Cape Town-based designer known for his iconic furniture and interior designs for his eponymous company.
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