How to Rule as a Creative Freelancer: 34 Hard-earned Tips
Gord Laws take us through his tips on how to become a freelancer successfully, while making sure that you can pay your bills.
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Ideas for Your Side Hustle to Make Life More Affordable
Looking for a creative way to close the expanding gap between your income and expenses? We have five side-gig ideas you can start now.
What You Need To Know About Tax as A Freelancer
Alvhin Adendorff and Eitan Stern take us through eight things that you need to know about taxes as a freelancer. Their tips will be a great help for you to make sure that your finances are all above board.
Co-working in Cape Town: An updated list of the best spots to set up shop
Since our last round up of co-working spaces in CT even more have popped up. Here are 12 spots to choose from.
4 Creatives Working at the Inner City Ideas Cartel
The Inner City Ideas Cartel in Cape Town is a co-working space like no other. We chatted a few creatives about why they love working there.
Postcards from the freelance edge: a few things I’ve learnt so far about working for yourself
Cape Town Girl is a local blogger and recently went freelance. She left her job at a big advertising agency six months ago to pursue her own dreams and this is her story and some learnings. If you are planning to go freelance any time soon, we highly recommend […]
Featured: Luke Ritchie
Luke Ritchie is a freelance graphic designer based in Stellenbosch, specialising in “branding (my bread and butter), typography (which is my first love) and illustration (my secret love affair)”.
Featured: Graham Wiles
As part of his BTech study, Graham Wiles is working on a series of paper toys based on South African culture (Folk tales, myths, stereotypes etc). In order to promote his work and spread the love of paper toy making, he is also conducting a series of paper toy workshops throughout the year.
Featured: Trevor Paul
Trevor Paul, an aspiring freelance illustrator from Durban has been thoroughly inspired by the Behance community and as a result has been upping his illustrative game.
Liberty by Andrew Brauteseth
Andrew Brauteseth known as ‘Guy With Camera’ has been featured on 10and5 many times before – the last being his short film entitled ‘The Rose’. This time around Andrew has given us a little teaser into a new project which he is working on.
Featured: Nic Smal
Nic Smal has pretty much been obsessed with cartoons his entire life, and it may have something to do with the first time he saw Bravestarr and his sidekick Thirty/Thirty -“a horse, that stood up on his back legs and fired a shot gun! Whats not to love?”
Update: Richard Moir
An update on the illustrational stylings of Richard Moir. As requested by you all.
Monster tutorial from Neil Phyfer
Neil Phyfer, featured before on 10and5 HERE, is a talented self taught illustrator and graffiti artist who often creates ‘How to’ tutorials on Cartoonsmart, specializing in digital painting and inking with Adobe Photoshop.
Featured: Rudi de Wet
Rudi de Wet is a Cape Town based illustrator whose work is characterised by bold, energetic illustration and lettering. Rudi specialises in bespoke hand lettering, typography, illustration and graphic art for all kinds of media and environments.
‘Home Sweet Homies’ exhibition
Locally bred illustrator Skullboy from Durban, and RVCA ANP Artist, Tokyo-Go-Go launched the Home Sweet Homies exhibition at Gallery 415 in Durban last Thursday, and from the looks of it, it was it was one hell of a show down.
