116 MODULE 1: TERM 1 – Design in a business context
RYAN FRANK
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNER
SOUTH AFRICA/ LONDON
Te work of Ryan Frank, South African-born and London-based designer, is a showcase of his undeniably urban (city) life. He has a deep-seated fascination with reworking existing renewable materials into exciting new products. His marrying of old versus new into functional pieces has sparked a flurry of international media and design-house interest in his ability to see the beauty and worth in the old and dilapidated objects normally meant for the waste yard and rejected. Tis has resulted in the South African-inspired inkuku chair made from discarded supermarket shopping bags. See picture on the right.