Nando’s shortlists its Top 10 Hot Young Designers
The overall winner of the Nando’s Hot Young Designers will be announced at the mentorship event which will form part of this year’s Basha Uhuru Youth Festival to be held at Constitution Hill from October 25 to 29.
The Nando’s Hot Young Designers (HYD) talent search, which plays a key role in the ongoing industry development by functioning as a launching pad for fresh young talent, has announced its Top 10 design talents for 2022.
Now in its fourth iteration, the talent search aims to unearth saucy new designs for Nando’s restaurants around the world, and fire up the careers of emerging local creatives. The popular competition, which is facilitated by Clout/SA, has just announced its much-awaited list of 10 finalists for 2022.
The 2022 finalists are:
- Nikhil Tricam and Nindya Bucktowar
- Lindelani Hlophe
- Thabiso Nkonyeni
- Siyanda Magaba
- Daphne Lephoto
- Minenhle Zazi Cira
- Makhi Mtati
- Ryan Pinches
- Mbali Maseko
- Nomonde Dubazane
The overall winner of the HYD will be announced at the mentorship event which will form part of this year’s Basha Uhuru Youth Festival to be held at Constitution Hill from October 25 to 29.
The talent search had tasked the young designers with conceptualising a condiment unit to display the brand’s acclaimed Peri Peri sauces. The challenge was to do so in such a way that these sauces and their piquant ingredients, which form an intrinsic part of the Nando’s experience, remain visible and accessible to customers throughout their visit. The competition received 134 entries from across the country, making the judging process a tough call for the adjudication panel.
The finalists were chosen by an eminent panel of local and global industry judges including the director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in New York, Ngaire Blankenberg; UK’s Fusion Design and Architecture director Sophie Douglas; co-founder and director of STAC Architecture in UK Paul Thrush; and Karen Brumfield, head of buying at @home and 17 other judges.
The judging took place during August and September 2022 and was segmented into two phases. In the first phase, a shortlist of 20 entries was created from the initial submissions. Members of the Nando’s and Clout/SA global partners voted on the shortlist inclusions using a set of criteria mapped to the entry requirements. This shortlist was then put before the entire judging panel, which used the same set of criteria to vote for the 10 finalists.
Now that the HYD finalists have been announced, all 10 will be invited to a mentorship session hosted by Clout/SA this October. They will then be linked to various mentorship opportunities and could potentially see their design prototyped.
