The community behind every Nic & Nic product Nic &Nic is based in Shiyalongubo, a rural community in the Barberton-Makhonjwa Mountains of Mpumalanga. This is not a typical place for a design and manufacturing business, but it is the place we call home. Our work began with a simple belief: meaningful products can be created from waste, and meaningful opportunities can be created in rural communities. For us, design is not only about the final product. It is also about the hand

How Nic &Nic gives discarded inner tubes a second life At Nic&Nic, one of our core materials is the discarded tyre inner tube. What many people see as waste, we see as a strong, flexible and beautiful material with the potential to become something useful again. Tyre inner tubes are often overlooked once they can no longer serve their original purpose. They may be thrown away, stored, burned or left to become part of the growing waste problem. Yet the material itself is durab