home is where the coffee is

A little bit of what I've been up to lately... This is the cover of a proposal document and the accompanying mood board that my friend, Lisa Nelson and I submitted for the NoKak Eco Design Competition.

The brief required us to come up with anything that is sustainable and environmentally friendly - could be a product or a campaign or anything really!

So we came up with a campaign to discourage the use of polystyrene cups in our college's cafeterias, by encouraging the use of reusable, ceramic mugs and highlighting the dangers of polystyrene as a food container. Polystyrene really is a terrible material, it is incredibly harmful to the environment and after doing some research, we were shocked that it is still so widely used in the food industry.


UPDATE: We made it through to the finals! This is rather nice news, because it means that our work will be part of a traveling exhibition, that will be in South Africa and Sweden. We also have a chance to win a (three-week, i think) trip to Sweden next year! So a lot of hard work lies ahead of us, but lets hold thumbs that we make it!

Dear Rae

this one is my "favourite-favourite"

... but these ones are also lovely

I have been admiring these pieces by Dear Rae for a little while now, and then I saw a post on Lucky Pony where if you are lucky, then you can win a heart ring ! 

I'm holding thumbs (and ring fingers)

Ps. Steve, if you happen to see this, well.... wink wink ;)

wet spring day

It's the first day of spring and most people in Cape Town have been complaining, I'm doing a little dance, because I love the rain! If I could I would probably move to a permanently-wintery country...

a little experiment

Hello!

Here is another illustration that just finished. I guess you could call it a self portrait. Kind of.
I made the original sketch for it months ago and until now it had just been taped to my wall, sitting in the "future projects" bank - I'm sure lots of people have "future projects" or "things in the pipeline" or as the other list on my noticeboard says, "personal creative projects"...

This is something that tends to happen a lot while you're studying (or at least it happens to me a lot), you're always so busy with college briefs and assignments that you don't really have much time or energy to do carry through your own, personal projects.

This weekend was the first in a long time that I had no homework. Nothing due in. Or at least nothing immediate... So I jumped at the chance to do something with this sketch.

A pretty literal take on how I feel a lot of the time. Drained.

Okay okay, enough rambling!

Here is one of the original, 'planning' sketches.

Something to remember for future illustrations ...

New Project

A set of bicycles - part of a collaborative project with three classmates, Zulpha, Harriet and Lisa. 

The project is an online magazine, in the form of an interactive PDF. Our mag is called CLAN and is all about a "creative community"and basically showcases work and features interviews with some top class creatives.  

This issue of CLAN is "the bicycle issue", where each creative is depicted as a customised bike, reflective of their personality and unique creative style. The reader picks a bike, on the contents page, and the creative, then takes the reader on a tour through their "hood", which then leads up to the 'content' of the mag. 

I had a lot of fun doing these!

Saturday Progress

Adam Hill

Alex Trochut

Daito Manabe

Erik Spiekermann

Jonathan Puckey

Marta Cerdà Alimbau

Siggi Eggertsson

Some portraits that I've just done - For a publication project that is due in on Monday. Will post the whole thing once it's done!

what's left of our forests

one of the many, many trees that have been hacked down

i just want to cry for this tree

slow path home

It Came In The Night

This is a poster that Jared, Dale and I worked on for our data visualisation project earlier this year and is basically a visual representation of the nightmares experienced by graphic design students, between the ages of 18 and 26.

badly drawn people

Some progress shots of the visual diary I submitted for the mid year assessment.
Please excuse the bad lighting, as these were all taken at late at night, as they were being drawn.

All of these are about mental illness and the stigma attached to psychiatric conditions.

long time no blog, so here's a nice long post

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I have really been neglecting this blog lately, just because so much has been going on.
The Sappi project is over at last, but things have been still been pretty chaotic. But i mean that in a great way, good chaos!

i moved into a much smaller room, so had a big decluttering, dejunking, proper and much-needed clearout. Then it was time to submit our portfolios for midyear assessment at tech, then it was the start of a three week holiday, but it wasn't really a holiday because of all the assignments we were given.

I have also been spending time at one of the country's best advertising agencies, The Jupiter Drawing Room, for the past week and a half, as part of our industry placement project. I've really been enjoying it there and will be a little sad to leave. It's a very inspiring place, filled with great people. Everyone I've met so far has been nice to me and I''ve been able to work on some great projects. Their in-house illustrator is away on holiday, so I've been filling in for him. I'm really in my element there, because it means that all i have to do is draw all day! I've also been working with a copywriting intern on another project, which we will be showing to the client later this week, so I think I've really gained some very valuable experience.

We have to write a comparative report, comparing two different studios, agencies or designers, so next week I will be visiting a freelance graphic designer and illustrator, whose work i have admired for quite some time, so I'm very excited about that as well!

We also have to write an article and take some photographs for a design magazine of our choice, and then design the layout, write the copy and take the photos in the style of that magazine. This needs to be nearly done by the time we go back to tech in two Monday's time. I'm going to go with It's Nice That or Creative Review, but haven't fully decided yet.


Phew! With so much going on, I think I should take up smoking to curb the stress.
No no, only joking!

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ps. smoking lady image is from scotch & scones

lighting fires

Sunshine & happiness