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“If you do good work
for good clients, it will
lead to other good
work for other good
clients. If you do bad
work for bad clients, it
will lead to other bad
work for other bad
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Micheal Beirut
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Charles Paul Amwayi
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Lisa Graig
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Movenpick opened in Nairobi recently, the hotel chain
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts is a welcome addition for business
travellers and tourists.
“Digital design is like
painting, except the
paint never dries.”
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Victoria Wangai
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D E S I G N A
| May
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June 2019
“I strive for two things
in design: simplicity
and clarity. Great
design is born of those
two things.”
AAK President Arch. Emma Miloyo giving her opening remarks
at a dinner hosted for the AAK president last year. e event also
included the bi annual Dura coat Awards of Excellence and the
unveiling of the AAK at 50 commemorative book.
Lindon Leader
“e life of a designer
is a life of ght. Fight
against the ugliness.
Just like a doctor ghts
against disease. For us,
the visual disease is
what we have around,
and what we try to do
is cure it somehow
with design.”
Mossimo Vignelli
Cytonn Towers is a proposed iconic Mixed-Use Development on
a 4-acre parcel in Kilimani, located at the junction of Argwings
Kodhek and Elgeyo-Marakwet Road, 10 minutes from Nairobi
CBD. During the unveiling of the Cytonn Towers project, the
architect, Paul Oburu of Aspera Designs noted that “Cytonn
Towers will provide potential clients with the best view of the
Nairobi city and Ngong Hills, with Mt. Kenya and Mt.
Kilimanjaro being visible in the early morning.” Quite a great
way to wake-up