Archive for August 24th, 2009

One Match Stick

Telana Simpson is running a project called One Matchstick and has recently joined forces with Springleap.com to challenge you in a brand new t-shirt design competition!

One Matchstick

One Matchstick was started by Telana in 2006. Her idea was to trade one matchstick as many times as possible by building value and eventually end up with offices which she will use for mentoring a start-up entrepreneurial enterprise.

So how far has Telana already traded her matchstick up? It went from a matchstick to a pen, eventually to some cash, which she traded for a hot-air balloon ride, her ninth and last trade was a party for 150 people!

Now Telana is looking for someone to trade 375 Springleap.com t-shirts with! Visit One Matchstick for more information.

As far as the brand new Springleap.com themed t-shirt design competition is concerned here’s what you have to do: Design the Official One Matchstick t-shirt!

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fashion design courses

design college


Greetings everybody.

Yesterday I mentioned the hugely successful Arise Cape Town Fashion Week that just illuminated the Mother City with some of the best upcoming and well known design South Africa has to offer.
It got me thinking about all the new fashion design students and the kids sitting in matric pondering about which fashion design course to join.
There seems to be plenty of fashion design courses out there, but which of them can actually guarantee you or your child a springleap into the design world when they qualify?

Strictly speaking I want to look at fashion design courses in the Western Cape. Truthfully I know very little about any fashion institutions outside of the Cape.
Here are a few that I thought I should mention:

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