Team 10
Tom Dixon (London)
 |
TOM DIXON the company was started by Tom Dixon and David Begg in 2002. Since its inception, the company has developed its own collection of contemporary lighting and furniture including the acclaimed Mirror Ball Collection of lights and more recently Copper Shade.
TOM DIXON designs have entered the international major league through renowned shows at major venues like the Milan Furniture Fair and the London Design Museum, where Dixon is currently nominated for Designer of the Year.
Dixon the designer is particularly well known for his earlier designs such as the S–chair, designed for Cappellini, and the rotationally moulded Jack Lamp that gained the Millennium Mark for Great British Design in 1998. He was awarded the OBE for services to British Design in 2000.
Dixon is a self–educated maverick whose only qualification is a one–day course in plastic bumper repair.
Don Albert (Cape Town)
 |
After graduating from the University of Natal in 1998, multiple award-winning architect and founder of SoundSpaceDesign, Don Albert applied for a Fulbright Scholarship. He spent three productive years in Los Angeles completing his Masters in Architecture (Urban Design) at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a year as design associate at the office of Barton Myers Associates (BMA), Beverly Hills. Apart from traditional urban issues such as transportation and housing, the cultural, spatial and intellectual impacts of new technologies such as the internet, virtual space, computer generated design, research and manufacturing were tested in Albert's Masters thesis: "Urban Placemaking in Rapid Development, A Counterproposal for Malaysia's Cyberjaya Technopole."
During this period Albert conducted research in Malaysia, Europe, Cuba, Mexico, Hawaii, South Africa and the United States, developed new urban design strategies for emerging work and living environments based on typological, diagrammatic and computer–generated means that are highly modified by place-specific inputs (climatic and cultural), and presented a master–planned counterproposal for Malaysia's premier techno–city.
Returning to South Africa in 1999, Albert has steered soundspacedesign through a number of high profiile and internationally published projects, including the Millennium Tower, Durban, and the highperformancentre, at the University of Pretoria.
Designs
With support from:
