Design Indaba 2019 conference For Creative Industries

Design Indaba 2019 is Cape Town’s head gathering for the creative industries. Commencing on the 27 Feb, the three-day occasion will concentrate on how creativity can make a superior world and bring to the stage top creators who are doing only that.

Among the current year’s impressive line up is originator of New York City-based worldwide promoting agency Droga5, David Droga, The Handmaid’s Tale ensemble designer Ane Crabtree and grant winning design critic and authorr Alice Rawsthorn. Also, that is not all. Sitting close by them you’ll likewise locate the founder of clothing line movement Orange Culture Adebayo Oke-Lawal, the Principal of Selldorf Architects Annabelle Selldorf and Vice President and Chief Design Officer at 3M Company Eric Quint.

Just as a plenty of excellent speakers, the Design Indaba 2019 program incorporates a curated lineup of music – including international acts and a foray into the best of African music at the present time.

There’s also the yearly Emerging Creatives program, which puts the focus on the best in design talents to watch, and we’ll find which design will earn the title of Most Beautiful Object in South Africa this year. Furthermore, if that wasn’t sufficient to keep participants involved, there are also various seminars and workshops, including the exceptionally acclaimed Trend Forecast by design doyenne Li Edelkoort.

For those in and around South Africa who can’t make the occasion face to face, the Design Indaba 2019 Simulcast will give a live screening of the main conference to different venues over the nation. This is a piece of an activity

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Our top choice of the perfect free graphic design software

Despite the fact that graphic design software is costly and some students or those who wanted to have theirs could not afford it. But that doesn’t mean that those who can’t afford to splash out on one-off payments or commit to subscriptions have to go without – there is some excellent free graphic design software out there with features to rival the big name packages.
And depending on what you’re trying to achieve, even if you’ve already shelled out for paid-for creative apps like Adobe’s Creative Cloud suite – which we highly recommend you get if you can – you may still find these free tools useful.
Here are our best free graphic design tools – divided into sections for creating vector art, editing images, creating data visualisations and other useful tools you might like – use the menu above to navigate to the section you want.

01. Gravit Designer

Gravit Designer is a full-featured vector design app suitable for all manner of jobs, from screen and icon designs through to presentations, illustration and animation.

With a clean and intuitive interface that adjusts itself as you need it, this free graphic design software packs a wealth of tools for creating detailed and beautiful vector imagery, including non-destructive booleans, a knife tool and path graphs, plus multiple fills and blending modes, and a powerful text engine.

It’ll export as PDF, SVG or bitmap, and if you need to access a project on the go, there’s the Gravit Cloud service that enables you to get to your work wherever you are.

02. Vectr

Available both as a browser-based web app and as a stand-alone desktop app, Vectr is a free editor for creating 2D vector graphics. With all the vector features you’d hope for, plus plenty of options for using filters, shadows and fonts, it’s versatile enough for day-to-day design tasks. Particularly useful are its live collaboration and synchronisation options, which enable you to hook up with anyone, anywhere, to create in tandem. This is a genuine alternative to Adobe Illustrator CC.

03. SVG-Edit

If you’re looking to quickly output SVG or edit an existing SVG file, there are a few online editors that will do the job just as well as Adobe Illustrator. SVP (scalable vector graphics) is an open format that allows you to reproduce your Vector drawings programmatically, and one of the nicest projects is SVG-Edit.

This is built entirely on HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript without requiring any server-side processing. So not only can you use it to create and edit documents, but as it’s open source you can also download and modify the code – making your own version if you want.

The standard – albeit basic – toolset of every vector-image editor is here, and although it’s limited to the SVG format, it’s surprisingly capable.

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The following tech trends will positively shape our lives and career
In terms of tech trends , there are few better places to get a glimpse of the future than the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. On Monday, before CES 2019 officially opened its doors, we had a preview of the biggest tech trends to watch in 2019 and beyond, courtesy of Steve Koenig from the Consumer Technology Association.

We’ve highlighted the most exciting tech trends for designers below – all of which can be seen on the CES show floor this week. Much of this tech has been talked about before: what’s new in 2019 is we’re finally seeing its first commercial deployment. Think 5G, 8K TVs, self-driving cars.

“We’re seeing a lot for the innovations we’ve been talking about for years becoming reality,” Koenig told the assembled media in the Las Vegas Convention Centre. “What direction are these trends and technology pointing to? The answer is that we are fast approaching a new era of consumer tech: the ‘data age’.”

According to Koenig, we’re transitioning from the ‘connected age’ of consumer tech, where we’ve been focusing on connecting people, into the ‘data age’ – where we’ll now concentrate on connecting things.

“5G will become the central nervous system of the data age. It isn’t like flipping a switch though,” he cautioned. “The build out of the 5G network is like a toddler learning to walk: we’ll see the networks expand in the coming years. In two or three years we’ll see the majority of these 5G networks up and running around the world.”

Here are the biggest 2019 tech trends on show at CES this week that designers need to know…

01. Embedded AI

Intel launched its Xeon Scalable CPUs featuring robust AI and memory capabilities at CES this weekArtificial Intelligence is gathering serious momentum in households around the world. In a late 2018 report, management consulting firm McKinsey Global Institute likened the worldwide impact of AI to the steam locomotive, and that analysis certainly chimes true at CES.

Here in Vegas, the likes of Nvidia and AMD are showcasing their latest processors devoted to machine learning and AI. They’re designed for end devices like TVs and smartphones – why? To improve the UX.

Embedded AI means our TVs will always display the best picture quality, and our will always take the best photos. “Embedded AI is a major device trend to look for,” Koenig confirmed.

02. The rise of the digital assistant

Digital assistants sit at the most visible part of the AI spectrum. “There are more smart speakers, smart displays… Digital assistants are quickly becoming omnipresent,” said Koenig, adding that right now there are over 20,000 compatible devices with Amazon Alexa. Even the Church of England has an Amazon Echo app.

“Services, business – everyone is supporting these digital assistants,” he continued. “And it’s happening because consumers are starting to expect it.”

03. Voice will be a paradigm shift

With the rise of digital assistants comes voice design, as we’ve talked about before. Voice isn’t universal as an interface yet, but in certain cases we’re increasingly pivoting towards it – to ask questions, check the weather and so on. (Things we’d normally open an app for.)

With digital assistants, we’re speaking to more brands and services. And with every conversation, the AI becomes better trained. “This activity is showing us we’re on the cusp of a major shift in consumer behaviour. This will multiply as we move into the data age,” predicted Koenig. “Voice will become established as a go-to digital option. Digital assistants will be our digital co-pilots.”

04. AR has quietly overtaken VR
Zara has introduced augmented reality displays into its stores – expect more of this in 2019
“VR surged in front at first, but AR has quietly pulled forward,” says Koenig. “We’re seeing a lot of innovation in AR.”

From wearables and fashion to tourism and education, there’s an abundance of AR hardware and software at CES this year. Smart mirrors – where consumers can see what they look like in different garments without physically wearing them – could revolutionise fashion retail; while the tourism and education sectors are already amplifying experiences with AR.

“The forecast for VR headsets is fairly flat,” Koenig added. “There will be more experimentation over the next few years; the headsets will get better. But on the S-curve of adoption, we’re still at the bottom of the curve – in the middle of the next decade we’ll see the inflection.”

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