No Kak in our Coffee - print elements

Now that the Sustainable Design Showcase is over, I think it should be safe to publish this! These are part of the final submission that Lisa and I sent through to the competition.  These are the printed items, but we also designed a website and created an informative stop-motion animated video.

stand, pose and try your best to look normal

Some outtakes from photos that Lisa and I had to take of ourselves before we handed our competition entry in. We both felt so goofy and tired, but I think these ones are so funny!

(Lisa, if you read this anytime soon, please don't kill me!)

"just my type"

Saw this on Between10and5 this morning, looks like it should be a good one!

"an exhibition featuring the typographic stylings of Ben Johnston, One Horse Town and Jason de Villiers taking place at Yours Truly in Cape Town on Friday. See you there."

Graduate Exhibition album 2

hello Lisa!

live life drawing

Stuart & I

Steve & I

Emma & I

I love this this face!

goodbye!

Graduate Exhibition album 1

the exhibition space and mine and Stuart's stand

open portfolio book and details from my banner

It was our exhibition on Tuesday night! After what felt like an eternity, the night flew by. It all went really well and now I suppose this means that we can all relax! I still can't believe that third year is over and I do feel pretty sad at the thought of not seeing most of my class next year. I have applied for one more year of study, a BTech degree in Graphic Design. I think it will be worth it, as it means that we (finally) get to specialise in a specific area. I'm really not sure yet what to specialise in, but I do have a few rough ideas swimming around in my head...

goodbye third year!

Can't believe it's this time of year already - today we handed in our last projects and portfolios and in just under two weeks time it's our graduate exhibition. Crazy stuff. Here are some silly pictures of me looking silly, holding up the last thing that I need to hand in today, my application for next year, a BTech degree in Graphic Design...

progress/procrastination

Type stencils for the posters - it's taken about 2 hours to make these, but from the start of this project I have been determined to spend as little time in front of a screen and at the print shop as possible, so it's all going to be worth it.  Next step... handmade cd covers.

finishing touches

I must be on a roll with this blogging thing, i mean, 6 posts in 2 days? what nerd/procrastinator i am. This is a screenshot of something that I'm currently working on. Part of a poster series that will go with my corporate identity in time for the big bad graduate exhibition. Just under a month with too much to do! Fun times ahead.

a happy afternoon

Say hello to my newly-stamped business cards!

Very happy with them.

better than christmas

The rubber stamps for my personal corporate identity have been ordered and will be ready for collection tomorrow afternoon. I'm so excited! Can't wait to start stamping... I have a feeling that I will end up stamping a lot more than just business cards and letterheads, soon my whole room, including my face hands and lunchbox will be covered in inky logo's and contact information and then I will need a whole bottle of Handy Andy to come clean.

Super excited!

i work because i love this shit

click here for image source

This is a little reminder for myself, and anyone else who is working or studying in the field that they are most passionate about. The next few weeks are going to be heavy, we have exactly one month until our graduate exhibition and there is so so much that needs to be done. But, as this little type sample says, I love this shit, so I'm going to keep focused and enjoy this process! The great thing is that our final projects (a design history one and a communication one) are both completely self-motivated, which means that I get to focus on the things I love doing and reading and writing about most. Some of these things include poster design, inky line drawings, cutting, pasting, painting and stamping...

This is going to be a good weekend.

Toffie photography

Jurg Lehni's presentation

A selection of photos from the Toffie Pop Culture Conference and Festival, which took place at the Cape Town City Hall from the 24th to the 26th March 2011.  An amazing three days...

Slide from Javier Lourenco of Flamoboyant Paradise

Lunchtime day 2

mmmm noodles

walking back to City Hall

Art Deco building in town

creepy face dolls for sale at Church store

Conn Bertish's exhibition space

Paper Girl space

Boxing ring

beautiful little details in the stained glass windows

Michelle Son's inspiration table - differently decorated pairs of shoes

Black River FC's inspiration table

Sangoma & Photon Foundation inspiration table

Angie Batis & Shane Durrant's inspiration table

Dokter and Misses inspiration table

Marci Goose's inspiration table

cool and creepy at the same time!

Freddy Sam's inspiration table

statue in the stairwell

live mural painting by Boa Mistura - street artists from Spain

taking it all in

Richard de Jager's fashion show, entitled, "Wie gaan hierdie kak dra?"

I want lots of paintings just like this for my room!

Models from the fashion show

smoke and sunshine break

I finally bought some new sunglasses!

Daito Manabe - this was insane!

Jared and Dale, about to leave for the afterparty - the theme was sailors and secretaries