Woodgrain, retro-style illustration and typography - wow!

I'm a sucker for woodgrain... and retro-style illustration and type... oh yes

Brick lane flyers

Brick lane is a great place to check out if you are looking for creativity and curry in east London - a great mixture of independent design galleries, amazing vintage shops and Bangladeshi curry houses! -oh, and it's also home to "the best bagels in Britain"!

I've always been a hunter/gatherer of flyers for gigs and shows, so when I found these I was over the moon. Even though I didn't actually go to any of these events, I still felt lucky to be holding these little pieces of design. There is a nice range of styles in this collection, which I think is pretty reflective of London - a mixture of different people and experiences (ah, so cheesy, Aimee).

This is not the last post about Brick Lane....

London bikes

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this already, but I was really lucky earlier this year because, along with three other second year design students, I was sent to London on a student exchange sponsored by the British Council. We spent two weeks in London and attended classes at Kingston University . 

One of the things that I kept noticing about London was the amount a bicycles - especially really beautiful vintage ones... Someone told me that London has recently undergone a kind of 'bicycle revolution' with more and more people choosing bikes over cars. I think this is really nice and am planning on getting my own bike as soon as I have the cash!

Poster Designs

 

I submitted these two poster designs to the Bruce Lee Design competition last week. They are two versions of the same poster, both for a fictional band and event. The black background is taken from a monotype project from earlier this year and all the photography and vectors are my own.  Lets hold thumbs that they make it somewhere in the competition!

Come see their work

Some of business cards that I picked up at the 3rd and 4th year stands at our Design Exhibition opening on Tuesday evening.

CPUT Exhibition

It's almost time for the annual exhibition that takes place every year at my place of study, CPUT... this is very exciting, because it means that Skeleton Boy and I will finally get to see our campaign up and running! I will be sure to post some more pictures as soon as I get them, but for now you can see the mini movie invite that we made for the opening night.

HDR photography

after editing in HDR

before editing in HDR

For this project we had to find any interesting landscape, natural or urban, that had an interesting mood or atmosphere. I went to the walkway along Seapoint beachfront, just as the sun was setting over the horizon.  Using a tripod, three photographs of the same scene were taken, with different shutter speeds, in order to capture different levels of exposure - over exposed, correctly exposed and under exposed.  The three shots were then merged together in Photoshop's HDR (high definition range) mode.

Long Street interiors shoot

Wow, what a crazy week it's been! 

I spent most of this week in and out of hotels and restaurants photographing their interiors, for a project for VISI Magazine (fictional of course!). 

come see these postcards

Soon it will be time to start working on our end of year exhibition/campus campaign. This is very exciting - even though it's going to be a huge amount of work - we have to photograph all the 3rd and 4th years, which is apparently about 500 students!! but I'm excited, this a big honour for me and Stu and will be a great portfolio piece too.

Above are some of the postcards that went with the poster series in our original proposal

Watch your head!

Some of the best seagull pictures I took last Sunday

harbour trip

Last Sunday I went for a drive around Chapman's Peak and Hout Bay and took some pictures along the way...

poster design

a quick poster design for a workshop happening next week

the original drawing - my dad holding his beautiful old camera