
Future Talks 2026 at Decorex Cape Town Brings Global and African Design Voices Into Focus
Brought to you by Oggie, Future Talks 2026 brings together over 40 speakers – including LRNCE, Lagos Design Week’s Titi Ogufere and ARRCC – in a four-day programme exploring how we live, design and build today. Future Talks returns to Decorex Cape Town 2026 from 25 to 28 June at the Cape Town International Convention Centre. The four-day programme brings together designers, architects, makers and industry leaders from across Africa and beyond for conversations that span architecture, materiality, business, cultural exchange and emerging practice. Framed by this year’s Decorex theme, The Soft Life, the series moves beyond aesthetics to examine how …
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Sunday Times: This is a South African Sunday newspaper that provides news and analysis on a range of topics.

Sly Silvermoon
Building Trust During the Great Depression: The Great Depression touched every aspect of American life – including the communications business. Due to the economic downturn, companies primarily sought to build trust rather than sell products. The result? Most turned to PR over marketing, with PR even getting top billing on organizational charts! Advertising spending, meanwhile, plunged by more than 60 percent between 1929-1933 and would not fully recover until after World War II. (Source: MuckRack; Encyclopedia.com)
Campfire Mama
Subliminal perception is a subject that virtually no one wants to believe exists, and — if it does exist — they much less believe that it has any practical application. . . . The techniques are in widespread use by media, advertising and Public Relations agencies, industrial and commercial corporations, and by the Federal government itself. – Wilson Bryan Key
Kabuki
\”Publicity is a great purifier because it sets in action the forces of public opinion, and in this country public opinion controls the courses of the nation.” – Charles Evans Hughes