L-R: Heidi Brauer (Hollard), Savannah Feeke (BASA) and Ralph Borland (African Robots)
ITP Alum, Ralph Borland, has been commissioned to design this year's 4IR Themed Business and Arts South Africa NPC (BASA) award.
Working with this theme, Ralph Borland has been commissioned to design and produce the winners’ trophies for this year's Awards. Borland is a South African artist, curator and interdisciplinary knowledge worker, who teases out issues of power, activism, and social engagement via designed objects. "We are extremely excited by Ralph's work," says BASA Head of Marketing, Savannah Feeke. "Earlier this year we supported his residency at the Arts and Creative Technology Centre in Gwangju, South Korea. At the same time we started workshopping the theme for this year's awards with our partner Hollard, and we soon realised that Ralph's work was a perfect fit for the direction our conversation with Hollard was taking."
Commenting on the theme and his design process for the BASA Awards project, Borland draws the connection between algorithms and pattern, especially complex patterns found in nature, which are produced by algorithmic processes. "From the distribution of seeds on a sunflower, or the shape of a sea shell, or the fur of an animal. These are the result of ‘complexity’: natural processes acting in similar ways to computer code," he explains.
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