BIS Publishers (The Netharlands) has recently launched a new book titled ViP: A guidebook for innovators, primarily targeted at students in product, interactive and strategic design. Continue reading
Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has developed a poster campaign for The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) entitled, ‘Daily Chores’.
26 000 people fall victim to landmines each year while going about their everyday lives. This translates to 71 people dying each day doing ordinary things like mowing the lawn or shopping for groceries. The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) is a global network in over 90 countries that works for a world free of antipersonnel landmines, where landmine survivors can lead fulfilling lives. Continue reading
Saatchi & Saatchi Cape Town has used animation in their latest campaign for Tuffy Plastics. The press and poster campaign entitled, ‘When work takes aim’ employs a simple animation technique to advertise their disposable work-wear the product.
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“Packaging has to grab the consumers’ attention, relate to their own identities and create an emotional connection – in a matter of seconds,” states Jason Kempen, Creative Director at Fountainhead Design. Fountainhead is a boutique design and communication agency established in Cape Town in 1995, specialising in premium packaging, corporate identity and brand collateral. A renowned leader in the local design industry and firm believer that packaging is the image of the product, Jason shares his views on key packaging trends to keep an eye on in 2011 and 2012. Continue reading
Boogertman + Partners has its origins in South Africa, having been established in 1982. Operating out of four regional offices in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, the firm also has an office in Mauritius. With a staff contingent today of 167, it is deemed a large practice that has been defined by the demanding nature of a largely developer-led client base, which is driven by return on investment. It is in this arena where the company has particularly excelled, and is borne out by a ‘return’ client base that reflects relationships of 20 years and more.
‘Excellence by design’ is the all-pervading philosophy that permeates every project, from conception to completion, and unites the varied design philosophies of the multiple project leaders. The company’s design lead teams explore different design philosophies in alternative projects but always with the appropriateness of time and place in mind.
The past three years have been particularly rewarding for Boogertman + Partners when several of their projects won top honours at prominent local and international award festivals, of which Soccer City was the most notable and most awarded building in Africa in may years. Continue reading
During the 2011 July school holidays, Abraham Kriel Childcare hosted an art workshop for some of the children that the institution supports. The workshop took place with the aim of giving the children an outlet to express their emotions, stimulate their creativity and to keep them occupied during their time off from school. Continue reading
Governmental support for visual arts training at secondary school level in South Africa has dwindled in recent years to what can metaphorically be described as a very slow dripping tap. Whilst financial and other resources for basic education have been redirected to focus on so-called critical national skills shortages in the fields of science, mathematics and engineering, the humanities and specifically visual art have drawn the shortest straw regarding support. Little money and resources have been allocated to visual art teacher training and even less to supplying much-needed textbooks.
Here enters the Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG) and the Goethe Institut with the JAG-ED 2011. The publication, released this week, supports the Visual Art curricula for grades 11 and 12 secondary school learners and teachers to study the subject hands-on. JAG-ED is a compact textbook that will expand learners’ and teachers’ knowledge of art. Continue reading
Cobb™ is a South African-developed cooking system that has found favour across the globe. Winner of the Vista Design Award, as well as the Spoga+Gafa Innovation Design Award, the Cobb™ is unique in its class. The system is aspirational, engaging and innovative. However, the product packaging left much to be desired and the brand identity was out of step with the contemporary and innovative nature of the product. Yellowwood was thus tasked with repositioning the brand as a whole, but also to refresh the identity and develop a packaging system that could be applied to the complete range of accessories in the Cobb™ offering. Continue reading
Design is all around is. Try and black out everything that has been designed and you will be left with a black hole. It is the building block of our society, culture and even the most humble existence, past and present and will be the pacemaker and indicator of progress and changes to come. The Western Cape has most recently been introduced to opportunities that support the impact and growth of the Creative Industries in totality. Continue reading
Excerpt from PAUL STOPFORTH The man who retrieves the soap and sees in it a sliver of history by Judith Mason in DESIGN>MAGAZINE No. 19.
Some decades ago, a certain man died while being interrogated by the South African Police’s security branch. That he had slipped on some soap in the shower was the official explanation, just one of many risible excuses offered by the police for the deaths of people in their custody. Some in detention ‘fell down stairs’ or ‘leapt out of windows’, and ordinary carbolic soap seemed peculiarly dangerous. Soap is not the stuff of martyrdom. It is slapstick, like the proverbial banana peel. To go down in a hail of bullets or be hanged by the neck until dead is something. But to die as a result of a silly accident is to be stripped somehow of the last dignity afforded one. In such cases, we quickly bury the dead and they are soon lost to our collective memory. Paul Stopforth is one of the guardians of that memory, and he will not allow us to forget. Continue reading