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Vian Roos is a visual communication lecturer and designer with over thirteen years of experience in the design industry and higher education. He holds an MA in Design, and his academic work focuses on developing design approaches that reflect African aesthetics, cultural knowledge systems, and lived experiences. Vian also examines food culture and identity through visual communication, using design as a tool to document and reinterpret South African culinary narratives. His creative achievements include receiving a Merit Award in the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition and being recognised as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans in 2018.
Lecturer
Qualifications
Research Interests
Biography
Vian Roos is a visual communication lecturer and designer with over thirteen years of experience in the design industry and higher education. He holds an MA in Design, and his academic work focuses on developing design approaches that reflect African aesthetics, cultural knowledge systems, and lived experiences. Vian also examines food culture and identity through visual communication, using design as a tool to document and reinterpret South African culinary narratives. His creative achievements include receiving a Merit Award in the 2025 Sasol New Signatures Art Competition and being recognised as one of the Mail & Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans in 2018.
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Formed by the strategic evolution of The IIE's Varsity College, IIE MSA, Vega and
the School of Hospitality and Service Management, uniting under the Emeris name.
Emeris is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd which is registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997 (reg. no. 2007/HE07/002). Company registration number: 1987/004754/07. View certificate here.
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