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Up & coming: Jewellery designer Megan Fogarty
Megan Fogarty is the designer behind new jewellery label Oh Dear, Megan. She is a jewellery design Grad from CPUT busy completing her fourth year. Megan’s unique designs have already graced the pages of Elle SA as well as going down the runway as accessories to I Love Leroy’s new range that was launched at the Design Indaba earlier this year. Oh Dear, Megan pieces were also used for the I Love Leroy 2010 Campaign Lookbook, here. The label is currently being considered for inclusion in an international exhibition in Norway later this year. The theme of the exhibition is the use of found objects in jewellery design and if Megan’s designs are chosen she will be one of only two designers representing Africa. We chatted to this impressive young designer to find out about her inspirations. Read more…
Interview: Andrew Brauteseth on A Portrait of a Nation
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Andrew Brauteseth is an advertising and portrait photographer living and working in Cape Town. A Portrait of a Nation is a personal venture of his to take portraits of the largest possible range of individuals both living in and connected to South Africa. Between 10and5 caught up with him to find out about his ongoing project. Click through for the interview. Read more…
Apartheid Museum – A history forgotten is a future lost.
TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris took to the Joburg streets to interview young South Africans for a new campaign for the Apartheid Museum. Click through to read the press release and to view more interviews.
Interview at African Digital Art
African Digital Art is one of our favourite sites to find out about what’s happening in the broader African creative space. They’re almost like our continental brothers, so it’s nice sharing some info with them. Last week they asked to do an interview with us, and we gladly obliged in shedding some light on how we started, where we are at and what we have planned for the future. Read more over at the African Digital Art site.
Sean Metelerkamp interview
Since Die Antwoord has been blowing up, we thought it would be a good idea to get “behind the scene” – as we like to do on 10and5. We first featured Sean Metelerkamp‘s work with his first Die Antwoord shoot, and in that first mini-interview he told us how he believes that they will blow up all over the interwebs. Step aside Nostradamus. Sean is also the person responsible for shooting the wildly successful Zef Side video, which has been instrumental in Die Antwoord‘s rise to internet fame.
It’s difficult to not argue that Sean might most possibly be the most watched South African director on Youtube at this stage. As of writing, the two Zef Side videos have a combined viewership of over 1.2 Million views, which has been unheard of for any original South African music video, let alone video.
We had to ask the man some questions: Read more…
We got us an interview at IdeaBounty
We got us an interview over at Ideabounty! Dan asked us some questions, we answered them. Go check it out!
Interview with Jon Williams
In the late 1980′s we poured over our flickering TV sets, well those of us who were born, as another new Castrol advert, or “those Boet en Swaer ads” as they became known, played out. Recently one of these ads surfaced on YouTube. And filled with the nostalgia from this era in South African television, it’s been slowly been making its way around the globe. So we thought we’d get in touch with one of the legends behind these ads, Jon Williams. Jon shares what went into making these ads South African classics. Kidd Parker from the creative magazine Audrey2 did an awesome interview with Jon for us, and we’re super excited to share it here with you. Read more…
The BARE Project – Exclusive Interview with ami collective
ami collective has been kept busy with their latest project called the BARE project. We’ve asked the guys at the studio a couple of questions, and lo’ and behold, they answered! We’re particularly excited about the project as many of the illustrators featured on 10and5 have also gotten their hands on a BARE. We hope to showcase some of them in the upcoming weeks. You can check out the ami collective BARE project website here. It only launches on Friday, but you can keep tabs on the 10and5 Twitter account to be the first to know when it launches.
What is the BARE project about?
BARE is the ami collectives latest and most ambitious project yet. Essentially it is an art object that we designed and produced to inspire young artists to express themselves on a medium other than the traditional canvas. It is aimed at showcasing the non-commercial side of ami (what we do outside the perimeters of a brief) and an attempt to raise money for underprivileged children. Hopefully it will be a platform that will launch some of the many unknown but multi-talented artists into a new level of recognition. Read more…
Idea Bounty Interview with Kevin Parry
The guys over at Idea Bounty have a pretty good interview with the designer Kevin Parry who runs a boutique agency called In the Beginning. We couldn’t find any links to his own site, but read on for more of his thoughts.
Tell us a bit more about your agency, In the Beginning, how did it start? What do you offer your clients?
It had always been a dream of mine. I did my share of time in the ad industry, working for some really great agencies, but got to a point where I wanted more, and to do more. I was doing a bit of freelance work which began to steadily increase, so in a nutshell I took a leap of faith to make it happen. What I aim to offer my clients is authentic Graphic Design, but we don’t limit our offering to any specific field or discipline. Our focus is on the aesthetic of any job that we take on.
New Digital Edge Podcast with The Loeries
The latest edition of the Digital Edge podcast is up – they feature interviews with a number of the judges in the digital Loeries. Take a listen over here.
Despite years of isolation, South African advetising has always been a powerful force with exceptional and uniquely South African creative work. With our digital disability though, we’ve only recently been bombarded by companies that work purely in the digital space. Due to this connectivity shortcoming, we’ve lagged behind compared to the rest of the world. While South African adverts have had some success at the international Cannes Lions awards (with a print and radio win this year), not a single entry on this years Cyber Lions shortlist was a South African campaign.
Our local version of the Cannes Lions Awards, the Loeries, are being awarded at the end of September, a mere two months away. Before the awards though, the judging takes places to weed out the chaff from the wheat. In this episode we speak to three of the judges that spent last Thursday in a darkened room judging the entrants in the digital section. Click play to find the unique way that the entrants were judged as well as what it means to win a Loerie.
Listen (25 min, 27 seconds)