BRANSON CENTRE COLLABORATES WITH CLOUT/SA Great South African Méthode Cap Classique bubbles meet innovative South African design in a collaboration between the Branson Centre, Clout/SA and Nando’s Hot Young Designer finalists
PRIMROSE CHIMHANDA
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CLOUT 2022
As entries streamed in for the 2022 Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search, South Africa’s leading young designer competition facilitated by Clout/SA, we carried on working and collaborating with many of the finalists from previous editions of the competition who have become an integral part of our growing design community. When the Branson Centre, the Virgin Group’s social enterprise accelerator, was on the lookout for ways to share its passion for South African creativity as part of its corporate gifting, Clout/SA stepped in to facilitate a one-of-a-kind collaboration with some of the Nando’s HYD finalists. The project saw the finalists’ pattern designs interpreted onto a selection of Méthode Cap Classique bottles. The designers from the 2018 leg of the competition were Primrose Charmz and Zinhle Sithebe, alongside winner Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe and pattern designer Glorinah Khutso Mabaso, a co-winner of Clout Designers' Industry Days 2019, another Clout/SA initiative fired up by Nando's. The patterns had initially caught the eye of the judging panels at both Nando’s HYD and Clout
