Calling all budding creators and makers: Nando’s 2024 Hot Young Designer talent search is officially on and is sizzling with opportunities for talented creatives!
South Africa (14 May 2024) — Every year (when they’re not making ads and meals that fill South Africans with joy) Nando’s ignites a search for their next, hot young designer—a chance for a talented South African creative to have their designs sizzle and shine.
The search is back on, and young creators and makers are officially invited to chase their dreams and have their work become part of casas (restaurants) around the world.
For 2024, entrants are challenged to design their own ‘sensational screens’ where functionality and a unique South African aesthetic must rule the roost.
For the successful talent, the win won’t only see their creation become ‘part of the furniture’ across the casas and online, it’ll also serve as an opportunity to unlock mentorship and business acceleration resources. As such, the ideal designer for 2024, is also a budding entrepreneur.
Sizzling Opportunities for South Africans
Since 2014, the hot young designer search has helped many creative talents in South Africa boost forward. They have shared their designs for everything from lights and patterns to servers that make up the casas interiors.
In 2022, Nikhil Tricam and Nindya Bucktowar won for their flora-inspired Fynbos Server, while 2020 and 2019 respectively saw Katlego Tshuma and Agrippa Mncedisi Hlophe take the crown. The very first edition of the search was won by Samantha Foaden and Thabisa Mjo, with Thabisa sharing that it ‘changed the trajectory of her life’.
Thabisa went on to become the first South African designer to have her work placed in the permanent collection of the Louvre’s Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2020, and recently participated in Dolce & Gabbana’s ‘Gen D’ exhibition during Milan Design Week this year.
Needless to say, the opportunities are not to be missed.
How the 2024 Young Hot Designer Search Will Work
- Applicants will be assessed by both their readiness to face the challenges of the commercial design sector and their creations
- Ten finalists will be chosen by a carefully curated panel of judges against the application criteria
- They will go on to participate in a design immersion followed by a pitch session
- Five designers will then be selected to take part in the ‘Labratory of Learning’—a focused mentorship and business programme linked to prototyping their design
- Finally, a finalist will be selected!
You can enter here, and entries are open until 18 June.
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