Dylan Baitz

Since finishing my graduate studies after a turbulent year, I have been devoted to IESHER and its drive to rejuvenate the country while providing the platform for me to grow. I have promised myself that I would not let the privileges that I grew up with hinder my aim to build a bright future. 

During my youth and early adulthood I was a camper and then councillor at a summer camp. This informal education taught me more about people and the current world than my schooling.  Words cannot express this experience. I learnt to care for my surroundings and those surrounding me.

My role at IESHER began before the completion of my Visual Communication Design degree. As the digital creative designer my role was in co-designing the new IESHER logo, website and social media content in line with my drive for creativity and digital branding. Going forward, as an intern and entrepreneur of IESHER my role will be to the develop the new enterprises that IESHER incubates and those that I initiate. I want to ensure that the IESHER start-ups  are unique and have timeless branding. I want to aim my creative potential at sustainable local growth and empower young people to rebuild South Africa with their vision. I am inspired by IESHER’s goal to assemble prosperous  systems and businesses to heal South Africa’s past. I strive to teach and educate all in IESHER family about the importance of good design and to take pride in the implementation.  

My world has reawakened during the pandemic and I am ready to  take the opportunity. Although I still have much to learn, I am ecstatic to learn whilst building something new – especially seeing as my ethos and desire to help others is similar to that of IESHER’s.