Don't miss this great GIVEAWAY
Visit our facebook page to learn how to win this original ONE OF A KIND Paper Scissors Stone pendant made entirely from waste magazine paper and recycled crushed glass with a recycled brass fastening.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Ou new waste magazine animation
Q&A with Hayley
Hayley, our first intern at Quazi Design, answers some questions:
1.
What drew you to come to Swaziland as an intern?
I was attrcated to Quazi,s
philosophy, the creative opportunity and living somewhere new.
2.
What inspires you when designing? And what is
your design process?
I am
a visual thinker and find inspiration in my surrounding environment and the
materials I work with.
My
design process is a combination of research, collecting, drawing, and making.
3.
What advice would you give to young designers
who want to work abroad?
Immerse
yourself
4.
What have you learnt and what have you taught?
From
the women I have learnt to laugh every day.
From
Quazi I have learnt that the possibilities with paper are limitless.
I have taught and trained the women how to make my new designs.
5.
What do you love about your work?
I
love creativity through and through. To see and be part of the process from
which a concept becomes a developed product. I am amused every time I compare a
finalised product with initial idea and how far it has come.
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Tehuti Style
Introducing our new geometric inspired collection, handmade from waste magazine paper using our own unique layering technique.
Studio Collaborations
From the ordinary to the extraordinary.....
New for 2013 is our STUDIO collaboration project, where we work with a local artisan on an innovative product design. We are excited to start this initiative with the launch of our pulp and jacaranda lights. Working with a local wood carver, Figile, to create organic inspired pendant lights. These will be available to purchase from the 1st of March. We have started with two shapes - round and cone - and would love your feedback and thoughts!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Friday, September 21, 2012
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The Ultimate in Recycling
The ultimate in recycling at our workshop in Swaziland.
Work tables are made from old doors, beads are organised in egg boxes and shelves are made from magazine bricks.
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Artisan Story
Bonsile is an extremely hard working woman who
is happy to share her skills and ideas with other woman. After school she
decided to learn to become a seamstress, training with an individual who taught
her how to use a machine, and she started her own business, designing and
sewing track suits, cardigans and gloves for children. Realising that in order
to sell she needs a unique product she would buy scraps from the local textile
factories and create her own designs. Bonsile came to work for Quazi in 2010 at
the age of 32, first as a seamstress and she has mastered how to make all our
products. Alone, she pays school fess for three children and supports four
people on her salary. She is a true believer that skills should be shared and
women should support each other; having learnt traditional mat making from her
mother she has passed on her hand craft skills to her children and says “to
show other women how to make something
is important.”
Artisan Story
Josephine is a softly spoken, eloquent and
independent woman who started with Quazi in 2012. Brought up by her Zambian
father who instilled in her the idea that a person should work hard and not
rely on others in order to achieve anything she is quietly ambitious. Coming
from a close knit family, she went to a local multicultural English school and
at the age of 19 found work at a pre-school. She then went on to work for a
bridal company and made trips to Mozambique to buy second hand clothes to sell
in order to make an income. Having quit her job in order to spend more time
with her 7 year old daughter she found out about Quazi Design at the age of 34.
Not having any background in hand skills she is picking up the techniques
quickly and settling into her new work, proud of the products she makes.
Currently saving to build a house on Swazi nation land she says that if she
could give her daughter anything it would be “to be independent and not rely on
other people”.
Artisan Story
Sibongile
is our primary artisan, having started with us in 2009. Selfless, astute and
giving, she believes in education and entrepreneurship; volunteering in her
community to teach people life skills, English, Siswati and encouraging them to
start their own businesses. Passing on
her knowledge to her three children she is paying for her son to go to
university in South Africa and her two daughters both have high hopes and
dreams for their future.
Since a
young age Sibongile has loved working with her hands, knitting and crocheting,
and therefore becoming production manager and head trainer at Quazi at the age
of 44 was an easy transition. Having assisted Quazi grow she has a clear
understanding that in order for a business to be successful products should be
of high quality and in her own words “products should be made with love” proving
in her own work that this is true. Most importantly Sibongile is profoundly
aware that in order to achieve success personal happiness is essential.
Besides
wanting to buy her own car and homestead her dream is to open a child day care
centre.
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Monday, June 18, 2012
Custom jewellery
Collaboration with Le Quartier Francais in the Cape.
Using their floral brochures and siganture colours we created some beautiful jewellery pieces.
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Workshop
We are very excited to have finally moved into our new space in Sidwashini, Mbabane. A large light filled workshop where tables are made from old doors, trestles from pallets and storage space from old wood.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
This saturday is the opening of Life Cycle, a collaborative exhibition exploring contemporary upcycled furnture designa and unconventional art. Quazi Design have been one of the drivers behind this unique exhibition in Swaziland. It is a great opportunity for us to showcase products and designs that are one off pieces, resourceful and unusual and thoughtful. The exhibition will run from May 5th till June 8th and will coincide with the Bushfire international festival of the arts.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Design Indaba
Pictures from our stand at the Design Indaba Expo in Cape Town, 1st to the 4th of March 2012.
"TAKE HOME THE BEST OF SOUTH AFRICAN CREATIVITY"
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
The Quazi Design process...
We are very excited to be collaborating with Josie Shenoy, a talented illustrator from the UK who is busy working on a brochure for Quazi Design. We love her style and creativity and will keep our readers updated with the lastest illustrations.
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