Agency Sets Up Its Office on the Sidewalk Once a Month to Soak Up the Real World

South African design firm Studio Shelf has been taking its laptops and a few pieces of colorful furniture outdoors and setting up shop one day a month in public spaces around Cape Town as a means of "testing the immediacy of design and seeing what the collaboration between designers, communities and businesses has to offer." During these forays, members of the four-person collective share their views on the business with passersby, evaluate portfolios dropped off by local talent and even take occasional requests for on-the-spot logo designs.