Hey Audrey!

Today my friend Karin took me to very beautiful exhibition at A Word of Art gallery in Woodstock, Cape Town.  The exhibition is entitled "Postcards from Molotia" and the work is by The Blackheart Gang, which consists of two very talented artists called Ree Treweek and Markus Wormstrom. The work consisted of amazingly detailed and sensitive etchings, and beautifully carved and painted wooden sculptures of fantastical creatures. The work was so skilled and imaginative it took my breath away. I would buy one of those etchings in a second of I could!

Designs on Christmas

 

Hey Audrey!

Tomorrow is Christmas Day, and I'm looking forward to spending the day with my family. I wanted to show you my favourite Christmas designs. Two posters I designed for a beauty shop for my friends at Engage, using paper cut-out snowflakes as the main graphic element. The idea was that the ladies at a local empowerment centre could make these, and that they then could be sold in-store. The next design is a Christmas card for WIP Holdings that contained a set of gift tags. I designed the Christmas icons using the circles of their corporate logo. Have a happy Christmas Audrey!

Logo no yes?

Hey Audrey!

I saw a logo competition for the Ishikawa Prefecture on the Design 21 website. This 'province' in Japan is well known for its rich traditional culture and high-tech industry. The logo would certify excellent Ishikawa products as 'Premium Ishikawa Brand' and promote them to the world. It was quite a challenge to design something for a place I've never been too. But I did some research and found that the Prefecture's Bird was the Japanese Golden Eagle. I decide to combine an image of an egale with the geographical shape of the Prefecture, using a Japanese painting style, and soem hours later this logo emerged. Audrey, have you ever been to Japan? I would love to go and see a typical Japanese garden. And the cherry blossoms.

Bracelets with memories

Hey Audrey!

I love it when the things that I wear remind me of the people that I love. Like my favourite bracelets which I like to wear all at once. The colour woven one was a gift from my friend Christine, who is now living far way in Tanzania, the wooden painted one (with gold paint) was a gift form Di and Greg, which they bought in St Petersburg. The wooden one I bought on a lovely weekend away with my friend Ria in the Natal Midlands. They were made by John and Andrew Early, who make beautiful wooden vessels and furniture.

'Ons Plek' safe space

Hey Audrey!

I am so excited to just have launched my new social design company SideBySide. I look forward to doing work with clients that are making a change in the world. You can read all about our first project for Ons Plek Projects on the SideBySide blog.

Beautiful boots

Hey Audrey!

These are promotional postcards I designed for custom footwear designer Astrid of Bohéme. I told you a few posts ago how much we enjoyed the photoshoot, remember? I wanted to add a lace element to emphasize the burlesque idea, and did some ink illustrations for this, but I think the real lace overlays looked better in the end.

Hello Skin

Hey Audrey!

I recently worked on a packaging design for a skin care range aimed at teenagers for the cool people at Engage Brandcraft. One of my ideas was to use teen faces peeking out from under a fringe, the other was copy driven: I looked at phrases or sayings teens are currently using and tried to link it to the nature of the product. I had fun!