30 May Oh Wow! – A Public Art Exhibit, Illustrated Crest Designs and a Mural for Cape Town’s First Art Bar.
We’ve got a lot to show you in this week’s Oh Wow! including a wonderful update to Catherine Green’s ongoing illustration project, a mural by Marna Hattingh for Erdmann Contemporary’s Blah Blah bar, some lovely products handmade in Cape Town and the launch of ART54’s public art displays.
ONE – For project 3 of her 12×30 project (which we chatted to her about in this interview), Catherine Green illustrated crest designs for real and fictional characters. Follow the full project on Instagram.
Jane Goodall – a famous primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist
Vladimir Nabokov’s iconic character: Lolita
Twin Peaks
American professional tennis champ John McEnroe
Hergé, the illustrator behind The Adventures of Tintin series
TWO – Erdmann Contemporary has relocated its fine art division (the photography arm remains at the original premises) from the small venue on Shortmarket Street to a double storey Victorian building on Kloof Street. The downstairs part of the house has been converted into Cape Town’s very first art bar, the Blah Blah bar, which is intended to function as a base bringing together like-minded imaginative types to converse and connect.
Featured here is a mural by Marna Hattingh for the Blah Blah bar.
THREE – Soft Walls, an exhibition of photographs by Sydelle Willow Smith at Sea Point Promenade, is the first of 14 public art displays by WDC Project ‘ART54′.
FOUR – Mark Magazine is a newspaper style publication started by Herman Manson of Marklives, intended to serve as an authoritative voice on marketing and advertising in Africa. In the first issue designed by Machine Agency, the typographic direction took inspiration from African graphic language like geometric patterning, irregular hand drawnletters and spaza shop signage.
FIVE – Let’s Go!, an artwork by Essie Letterpress.
SIX – Environmental signage for The Factory Cafe by Mike J. van Heerden.
SEVEN – Handmade gift tags, napkins and Auana bag from Hula Honey SA. The products are available for purchase on Etsy.
EIGHT – Nymphet, Bee Beardsworth photographed by Katja Marr.
NINE – A time-lapse video shot and edited by Rory Allen of a painting by AuReT for Surfstore Africa in Muizenberg.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/96413321[/vimeo]
TEN – The Kickstarter campaign for Twenty Journey has gone live, and one of the rewards for backers is this A4 Booklet designed by Hanno van Zyl. The 60 page booklet will consit of photographs, journal entries and other “weird and wonderful paraphernalia” that Sipho Mpongo, Wikus de Wet and Sean Metelerkamp discover on their trip across South Africa.
ELEVEN – A GIF of Fever Trails (aka Nicolaas van Reenen) by Kent Andreasen.
