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Maybelline Partners With Nando’s For The Saucy #HotMess Campaign
Long-lasting lipstick is a must-have for any make-up enthusiast. Collaborating with one of South Africa’s most popular food outlets, Nando’s, Maybelline is proud to announce the launch of its Vinyl Ink Sauce Collection with the #HotMess campaign. “The #HotMess campaign is about relishing the joy of our saucy, delicious meals. Lipstick, on the other hand, not so much. We want people to…
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[ENTER] Young Creatives Invited To Enter The 2024 Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search
The Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search is back, inviting young creatives to pursue their ‘Screen Dreams’! Each biennial search seeks new product designs for Nando’s restaurants worldwide. For 2024, entrants are challenged to design sensational screens. Since 2014, South Africa’s best young creatives have shared designs for lights, patterns, benches, and servers, which…
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Local Artistry Takes Centre Stage At The Nando’s Creative Exchange Exhibition In Gqeberha
The vibrant city of Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape will host four exceptional local talents in a group Nando’s Creative Exchange show, each with their own unique artistic style and perspective, from an exploration of racial identity, through experiments with media and tools, to ‘slices of life’. The four are brought together by the Spier…
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South African Artists Colijn Strydom, Vivien Kohler And Nkosinathi Quwe Dazzle At London Art Fair
Nando’s and Spier Arts Trust presented the work of three South African artists, Colijn Strydom, Vivien Kohler and Nkosinathi Quwe, at the annual 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in London. The only international art fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, this much-anticipated event at Somerset House in central London welcomed the work…
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Design Duo Announced Winners Of The Nando’s Designer Search
After an intensive judging process, the winners of the Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search were finally revealed. Design duo Nikhil Tricam and Nindya Bucktowar, have been named as 2022’s winners. The announcement was made on 26 October 2022 at this year’s Basha Uhuru youth festival at Con Hill, Johannesburg. Together, Tricam and Bucktowar…
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Meet Nando’s Top 10 Finalists For The Designer Competition
The South African design industry is at an exciting point in its evolution; established designers continue to refine and define a uniquely South African aesthetic that has global resonance, and in turn, their work is increasingly spotlighted on the global stage. Meanwhile, a new crop of designers continues to emerge, ready to contribute their unique…
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Africa Rising Teams Up With Nando’s To Fire Up Experience
Africa Rising Music Conference (ARMC), teamed up with Nando’s creativity at this year’s conference to bring the Fired Up experience for its range of A-list speakers from across different sectors of the music business. Africa Rising Music Conference, a female-led music conference started by Sarah Jane Nicholson, focused on bridging the gap between African music and its connection…
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#LAChats With Katlego Tshuma On His Nando’s HYD Win
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Nando’s Brings Bags Of Flavour To Braam With #PERiTricks Pop-up
Nando’s has added two new flavours to their Bag & Bake range. Putting the power of PERi-PERi cooking into everyone’s hands, these flavours – Paprika Citrino and Smokey Churrasco – allow customers to spice up their home-cooked meals with the brand’s signature Afro-Portuguese fusion flavour profiles. Paprika Citrino is a sweet, smokey paprika flavour infused…
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[ENTER] Sizzling Sauce & Hot Talent To Meet As HYD Calls For Entries
Entries are now open for the fourth compelling iteration of the Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) talent search. This face-off seeks to unearth saucy new designs for Nando’s restaurants around the world and fire up the careers of emerging local creatives. This time around, entrants have been tasked with designing a condiment unit that will…
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Nando’s Bursary Students Graduate From Bridges for Music
Two years ago, Nando’s South Africa began supporting Cape Town based non-profit organisation Bridges for Music, as part of their efforts to nurture South African creative talent. This year, the partnership involved sponsoring ten passionate students with full bursaries to take on the MusicMBA course, an MBA-styled program at the academy. The MusicMBA is a…
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Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising Festival Is Back & Fired Up By Nando’s
The Basha Uhuru Festival has been recognised as one of the top festivals in Mzansi. In 2020 the festival had to be reimagined in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. 2020 saw the birth of the first Basha Uhuru Creative Uprising Festival, allowing the event to be held in a hybrid format accommodating a small physical…
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BridgeFire Aims To Support & Help Young Upcoming Artists
Between Wednesday 30 June and Friday 2 July 2021, Bridges for Music, Flame Studios and Nando’s will be working together to fire up the future careers of 10 up-and-coming musicians in BridgeFire, a one-of-a-kind music programme that seeks to uplift burgeoning South African creative talent. BridgeFire will be hosted at Flame Studios, located in the…
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Nandocas Tap Into Their Musical Talents On ‘This Is Us’ Campaign
Nando’s, the beloved South African born brand best known for its flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken, has written and produced a new song with accompanying music video called This is Us featuring the musical talents of “Nandocas” (what Nando’s employees are affectionately known as internally). Nando’s co-founder Robbie Brozin popularised the expression “it’s the people that make the chicken”,…
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Nando’s Raises An Unsolved Mystery Of The Burger Patty With Latest TVC
The Patty. Where does it come from? What part is it? All of the parts? 100% of the parts? These are the questions raised by South Africa’s favourite PERi-PERi chicken restaurant Nando’s in its latest TV commercial. Much like Nando’s former line of questioning into the origins of the chicken nugget in February this year,…
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Katlego Tshuma Announced As Overall Winner Of The 2020 Nando’s HYD Search
After an intensive judging process, the winner of the Nando’s Hot Young Designer (HYD) Talent Search Competition has finally been revealed. Katlego Tshuma has been named as 2020’s winner. For his entry, he looked to the traditional African mat for the inspiration behind his winning Sangu Bench. Sangu is the Xitsonga word for a traditional…
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Nando’s Hot Young Designers 2020 Finalists Have Been Unveiled
The Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search (HYD) has announced its much-awaited list of finalists for 2020. The popular competition, now in its third iteration, aims to unearth fresh new designs and launch the careers of local emerging creatives. For the 2020 edition of HYD, young designers were asked to create a unique bench that…
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Nando’s Calling For Hot Young Designer Talent Search Entries
The third edition of Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search is underway, this year focused on a design element that has become strikingly relevant in the time of COVID-19 – restaurant waiting benches. Nando’s Hot Young Designer Talent Search initiative that opens doors for undiscovered young South African design talent to join the Nando’s heartfelt…
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The Nando’s Creative Exchange Programme
Home is the theme of this year’s Nando’s Creative Exchange 2019, in partnership with Spier Arts Trust. The group exhibition at the AVA Gallery in Cape Town displays works by four emerging artists, Adolf Tega, Thembalethu Manqunyana, Robyn Pretorius and Wonder Marthinus, and will run until 16 January 2020. Nando’s Creative Exchange was first established in 2011…
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Bridges For Music & Nando’s Partner To Open Academy In Cape Town
After successfully launching the academy’s pilot intake in July this year, Bridges for Music in partnership with Nando’s, Pioneer DJ, Resident Advisor and other industry players, officially opened the doors to Bridges Academy to the public today. The academy is a hub of creation and learning where young, talented students can pursue their creative dreams,…

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