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Comment by Ntokozo Ntuli on March 9, 2010 at 8:03pm

Hi Karyn I am Ntokozo from NT Desings. Thank you for accepting me into this group.
Just a quick question to everyone. Where can I get reasonable office furniture in Durban and please do not mention the 'CN' word ...haha. I do not have a budget for that but do not want the lower end range melamine furniture. Thanks

Comment by Ralph Michael Hoppe on March 9, 2010 at 4:52pm

good work Peter!

Comment by Peter Kowalski on March 9, 2010 at 4:39pm

Project we discussed last year has fallen flat so no requirement yet but will let you know as soon as something crops up on the custom manufacturing side - right now it seems that SA is waking up to Humanscale being in town and we're quoting like crazy - watch this space. Will make a few announcements once we have confirmation.

Comment by Ralph Michael Hoppe on March 9, 2010 at 4:35pm

We're busy, busy, busy too - in the process of tying up some pretty good contracts with the country's leading retailers - no names mentioned.
I agree Peter, there is definitely an upsurge in the market. By the way, how you coming along with the integration of Visplay into your concepts?

Comment by Wynand Vervaart on March 7, 2010 at 9:14pm

hi Karyn and congrats on that one...........just finidhed a fairly big one myself , what happened to that other project you phoned me about???

Comment by Peter Kowalski on March 5, 2010 at 12:32pm

Well done Karyn! Something tells me we're going to be seeing a lot of activity in the market in the next few weeks!

Comment by Gavin Tonks on March 5, 2010 at 12:18pm

Hi Karyn congratulations, well done

Comment by Karyn Reynolds on March 5, 2010 at 10:32am

Just landed a new contract! How cool! after last years dismil performance.

Comment by Gavin Tonks on February 26, 2010 at 8:40am

Bridget I never knew you were that type of woman? hahah

Oh when I eventually could afford a rotring pen, and my first box of derwent colour pencils, and hand made rag water paper, my first A3 rotering plastic mobile drawing board still have one, like the 3rd in my life wore the other 2 out

Then the Kopic transparent markers and oh Lettraset, first photostat machines that could clean up and image and rezize it for you circa 1978 / 79
I designed embroideries for shoes and we had a maximum of 36 stiches, had this green screen like a radar screen and had to take eproms out of Styrofoam holders insert them in a box without bending the pins, then programme them.

The didode screen would then show the marker dots and what the embroidery would look like.Could then copy one at a time and insert them in the machine. Two years later programmable 36 computer controlled thread machines were on the market.

My best was the progressive company installed one of the first computers, it was air conditioned 1x metre off the floor outrageously expensive anti static carpets.

The ladies worked in this glass fishbowl and you needed special clearance to go inside "the box"
It was just a huge calculator and did the wages we had 2200 members of staff back then.

It would print reams of tear off sheets that would go into the factory, that would be torn off and returned with production slips and the ladies punched in the daily data as to who did the batch work so they could calculate normal time and production bonuses

Was a wonderful innervating tome, technology and invention. A company developed in 9174 which we were shown a water lazer computer controlled "factory" that could lay up and cut 200 pairs of shoes a day from standards, that was like 50 years ahead of its time.

My best was the materials i would receive from all over the world, the best was patent leather in oil film, made rainbows on this pitch black base and the other was fish scales that a Chinese company manged to bond onto a diaphanous background. So you literally had this wispy cloth, "like air" and millions of glittering transparent fish scales that made little transparent rainbows when it caught the light, it was hideously expensive but breathtaking.

We had specially treated fine quality bovine leather that once pulled or made we have a chemical that would strip the top layer of the finish revealing a base layer, that we would polish so it made streaks and then we would used a special varnish to reseal the pigments you cannot believe the effects you could achieve like leather burr or burr walnut

It may be easier and simpler in a computer programme today but there is nothing like the smells of wax and rosin, the heat of the machines on a cold winters day, the hum of a factory in full production and the satisfaction of taking a drawing and seeing it on the shelves from Woolworth to dodo's remember Dodos

When we sit in our wheelchairs one day we will have lots of memories, the youth will just curse Microsoft for all the crashes and glitches

Comment by Bridget Lardner-Burke on February 26, 2010 at 8:08am

Ooooh Gavin, nothing nicer than the sound of a sharp pencil on crisp clean paper, the wooshing of parallel rules on a drawing board and brushing the little rubber bits of the sheet hmmmmm!! It's almost Zen!

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