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Ed’s note
After only a day’s downtime we’re back up with a brand new version of DesignMind! The new site offers members a much easier and faster way to stay connected to design and specification professionals - and the people that support and employ the services of the profession. And a simpler way to find, share and follow design and specification information, trends and opinions.
A new market place function makes it simple to match needs and wants for services, products and information to the resources who supply it. The addition of a DesignMind forum gives each industry profession a place to interactively air opinions on issues that impact the industry people. And the introduction of an Answers function gives members an easy way for members to tap in to the networks knowledge and expertise in seconds.
Improvements to the search engine have required us to modify profile forms a bit so please take 30 seconds to check that your profile is presenting the correct information to the 15 000 visitors that the site gets monthly. Go to www.designmind.co.za and click My Profile and Edit to update it. [Use the ‘Forgot password’ function to get a new one instantly.]
In this week’s newsletter we talk about geo-mapping. The new site makes it so easy to plot your location on Google’s map. [Just type in your street and suburb and it does it for you!] By doing this you make it easy for people to find you in a region – and it bolsters your listing on search engines.
Please also follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Google + for up to date news, events and activity feeds. Oh, and you can access all of this DesignMind information straight from your mobile phone too.
You can now also subscribe to your choice of thought leaders and other members’ posts that you would like to follow and interact with. [And if you’d like to become a Thought Leader on DesignMind mail us on info@DesignMind.co.za and we’ll tell you how our Thought Leader Programme works.]
Check out the Event’s section for the latest functions that the industry posts here.
We welcome all feedback, so please send us a mail at info@designmind.co.za. We use feedback to continuously refine our thinking and our service to the network. For any advertising-related queries, please send a mail to sheenaghd@virtualworks.co.za
Thanks to the continued sponsorship of Plascon, Saint Gobain, Glass SA and the PG Group, the new networking service remains free to design and specification professionals.
Happy networking!
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Upcoming industry events
Invitation to attend Llumar’s Window Film Presentation
Date:
Monday 17th October 2011
Time: 09:00 -11:00 am
Place: Lifestyle Design Centre, cnr Main and Bryanston Dr,
CPD accreditation: Category 1 = 0.2 Credits
Limited seats available.
RSVP by 13 October 2011
RSVP: tarryn@llumar.co.za or theresav@cobrawatertech.co.za
Idea Design Conference 2011
2011 Durban Homemakers Expo
Green Building Council of South Africa Convention & Exhibition – Cape Town
Cape Quarter Design Now! Exhibition
Gauteng Homemaker's Expo 2012
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Beatrix Kellerman
Jimmy Velissariou
Belinda van Aswegen
David Barratt
Shanna Heyes
Jesse Khudoo
Kozi Grant Tailored Designs
Pentad Quantity Surveyors
Rock Architects
Open C.A. and E.PLC
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Latest articles on DesignMind now
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Virtual offices for design practices from Regus Architects and designers can exploit a growing trend to virtualise their practices – something entrepreneurs are increasingly doing across the world to get and keep business and cut costs. Regus provides virtual office packages from as little as R399 per month. Get a big business image with a prime address, a telephone answering service - and access to 1100 business lounges around the globe..
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Pretoria Insitute for Architects Ideas conference challenges architects to look for inspiration from designers in other industries Unleashing the power of & is what the Pretoria Institute for Architects is doing so well at the institutes well attended Ideas conference in Midrand right now. Designers from an array of diverse and disconnected industries are sharing how they’re inspired to create, and how they go about transforming their ideas into reality. The conference set out to ask what might be imagined if architecture borrows from fashion design, motor vehicle design, sculpture, music, painting and jewellery. Powerful stuff. Well done to the PIA.
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Around the World with Fibre Cement - Marley Eternit Our third featured Fibre Cement manufacturer hails from the UK and forms part of the worldwide Etex Group. Marley Eternit formed in 2005 with the amalgamation of Marley Roofing and Eternit Building Materials which created a materials supplier able to cater for different types of roofing and cladding solutions.Read more »
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Vertical wall forms outdoor garden ad
Reported first for South Africa, a vertical garden has been erected in Kloof Street, Cape Town. "We have admired the work of French vertical garden supremo, Patrick Blanc for many years and we had been looking at ways to erect similar gardens in Cape Town," says Simon Wall of Tractor Outdoor.
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SA football centre up for international architecture award The Nike Football Training Centre in Soweto, Johannesburg could become the second South African building to be named World Building of the Year, after making the shortlist for the award.
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How to Build a Garden Retreat from Cob
Have you ever wanted a place in your home for tales, meditation, retreat and celebration? Michael Buck takes us on the poetical journey of how he created a magical space at the bottom of the garden using art, foraging, nature and eco-building.
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The new DesignMind site is live – is your profile up to date?
Is your new DesignMind profile presenting the right information to the 15 000 people
who visit us monthly? After our upgrade, it might not be.
To help the site’s search engine to find people by profession, sector and area more precisely,
we've changed a few fields in your profile form - and added a few new ones. Your current
profile will now be missing the new data and may be presenting outdated to people who visit
your profile. This also means that you're likely to miss out on contacts, opportunities and
information that should be finding you.
To ensure your profile presents correctly to over 15 000 monthly visitors, please check
and update your profile as quickly as possible. It'll take you less than a minute to do and it'll
ensure you stay connected to the industry network for free. Simply visit www.designmind.co.za and
click on My Profile. Use the Edit function on your profile page to change and add profile data.
If you get stuck, mail us on info@designmind.co.za or call us on +27 011 525 9380.
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Geotag your business location |
By putting an address into the sites mapping function, you'll get pinned on the map instantly. Make it easy to find your services, products and skills by region by adding your location here.
For those of you who are not entirely familiar with the term, Wikipedia explains it as this: “Geotagging can help users find a wide variety of location-specific information. For instance, one can find images taken near a given location by entering latitude and longitude coordinates into a suitable image search engine. Geotagging-enabled information services can also potentially be used to find location-based news, websites, or other resources.[1] Geotagging can tell users the location of the content of a given picture or other media or the point of view, and conversely on some media platforms show media relevant to a given location.”
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Can architects be inspired by designers and design processes from other industries?
The Pretoria Insitute for Architects Ideas Conference currently being held in Midrand is inspiring architects to borrow from concepts and processes used to create in industries like sculpting, motor, fashion, music and painting industries to deliver imaginative and sustainable designs. Esoteric or useful? Can it be done practically? What other industries could be tapped into for inspiration. Are there any great examples of how the creative technique of linking disconnected concepts together has been used to stretch the envelope? Help the PIA to extend this inspiring debate by adding to it, or challenging it here?
Click here to join the debate.
Feeling the Pinch? - Posted by Ewald Hayward
Sitting in my office in the country side, one can become quite negative with the current economic situation! Work is becoming more scarce by the day - probably because of the economy but also because of the difficulty by clients to obtain credit for new houses or alterations.
Or am I wrong? How are you experience the demand in the larger cities?
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