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Anthony Dart – Graphic Designer/Director
Anthony Dart works from Johannesburg specialising in brand identity, typography, illustration, sound design & motion design. Have a look at his very impressive work online for a lesson in layout.
Videographer – Danny van der Merwe
Danny van der Merwe has been a shooter for 18 years working in broadcast television. This is his show reel. He also makes short moving pieces which you can view on his blog. “My private work in moving image and photography bears little or no relation to my job except in examining in Macluhan’s terms the medium is the message.”
Have a look at Danny’s Flickr stream too for some very interesting imagery.
Featured: Si Maclennan – Design,Illustration,Typography
Si Maclennan works at HelloComputer as an interactive designer and illustrator. If you’ve ever come across Newblack, HelloComputer’s illustration and typography Behance profile, then you’d have seen Si’s work. Some of his work can also be seen published in Maxim NY, Typography Today, The International Design Yearbook 2010 and Los Logos 5. Have I mentioned he is only 22? One of his illustrations was also used as a cover for Artbox magazine.
Have a look at Si’s website, www.ohhi.co.za, for some older illustration and typography work. Or check out his Behance portfolio, here, for more recent works. Watch this space as this talented, young designer has a few unpublished projects up his sleeve that are worth having a look at in the near future. Read more…
Featured artist: Ricky Lee Gordon
Most of you know Ricky Lee Gordon as the founder of /A WORD OF ART. Those who didn’t know that he is the man behind the scenes have surely seen him around the Gallery in the Woodstock Industrial Centre, clip board in hand, at one of the many exhibitions he curates. At the very least you’ve received a facebook invite from him to attend Papergirl, The T-shirt show, The Bin R250 show, One night only and the like that /A WORD OF ART has had a hand in organizing. In short, Ricky Lee Gordon is an Artist, Creative director,Curator, Creative Activist and founder of /A WORD OF ART and Write on Africa but nobody can be summed up in a sentence so this is his story. Read more…
Pie Palooza’s Button Boutique
Pie Palooza’s is button MANIA. Any accessories you can think of from earrings to brooches to rings to hairclips have been adorned with buttons by Jessica Faye Bourke, founder of Pie Palooza’s Button Boutique. Jess’s day job is at Singh & Sons Advertising where she is an art director. The button boutique is what keeps her busy the rest of the time, here’s how it all happened:
Since college I “played” with buttons – making bracelets from them. I would collect interesting and pretty ones, even some from as far as “Down Under”. Eventually people started giving me the buttons they no
longer wanted and suddenly I had more buttons than I had arms for bracelets! There was no other choice other than to start up the “button factory” as my house mate has come to call it. The name? Pie and believe it or not, Palooza, are a couple of nicknames I have picked up over the years and when added together you have Pie Palooza’s Button Boutique!
I now make earrings, rings, broaches and clips with plenty more in the pipe line! I will be hosting the first Pie and Tea sale on Saturday 31st July where all the Pie Palooza accessories will be on sale – check the Facebook page for details.
Click through to see more button creations. Read more…
Extra Fancy – SA designers in NY
Heidi & Gareth Chisholm are South Africa born, New York City based designers who started Extra Fancy to celebrate Africa and it’s super quirky crazy color culture clash style.
See more of their work after the jump or at www.extrafancyco.com
See Heidi’s design work for the likes of Gazelle, Afro magazine and Afro Coffee as well as some amazing fabric and package design at her site, www.heidichisholm.com
Warrick Mcleod’s fashion moving pictures
Warrick Mcleod has been in the film camera department since 1993 focusing many years on shooting top end behind the scenes footage. This developed into shooting moving pictures for fashion clients and photographers.
I have seen this dept grow and finally morph into what is now being called Moving Pictures by agencies around the world. I have been shooting these viral ad like shorts for some years now as screen tests etc for models and for clients on sets that are for still fashion projects. It is an exciting new department.
Have a look at some of his work on his site www.warrickmcleod.com
director/photographer Jenna Bass
Just a taste of the work of Jenna Bass, Cape Town based director and photographer. This music video is for The Curious Incident off their debut free EP Fatal Descriptive Attraction. It was produced, directed and edited by Jenna and shot by Fahema Hendricks. Other bands that Jenna has directed music videos for include Damn Right, Andy Lund & The Mission Men, Die Kys and The Sick Leaves. See more of her work on her site here, or on her blog, Jenna takes photos. Jenna is also the director responsible for The Tunnel, a short film set during the Gukurahundi massacres in 1980s Zimbabwe. The film made it’s world debut at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Read about the film here.
Click through for some Jenna Bass Photography. Read more…
Marcii Goose for everything
Marcii Goosen is an artist, designer and interior monkey.
Her art and design-making practice spans, diversely, over visual essays on fabric and paper, crafting intricate objects, through to producing extensive graphic stills and filmic installation projects.
She has most recently been involved in the creation of the adidas Originals Three Stories event as well as the Spier Contemporary 2010. She is also part of the Papergirl exhibition, and will be traveling to Berlin for the Papergirl international meeting next month.
Marcii remains captivated with observing and creating opaque codes through public and private praxis. With her involvement in projects such as Papergirl, she’s proving that she has her fist firmly pressed against the cultural heartbeat.
The work featured here was commissioned by Art South Africa. The brief was to create a window for their new magazine shop in Woodstock, Cape Town.
Find more on Marcii at www.marciigoose.com
or contact her measmyself@marciigoose.com
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International Site of the Week – Alex Varanese
The very cool online portfolio of designer Alex Varanese.
via @watkykjy
