The House and Leisure Green Designers at Woolworths competition was launched in August 2008, with the aim of showcasing home product design from students at tertiary design institutions around the country.
Category archives: S’HOT
Digiguru shows some love
Desktop Wallpaper – Designed with love by Digiguru
A History of Aggressive Design Magazines
Design Observer recently ran an interesting article on early design magazines, including PM, the forerunner of AD.
2010 FIFA World Cup host city posters launched
FIFA has released the city posters for the host cities of the 2010 World Cup. The Cape Town poster, depicting the world famous Table Mountain celebrates diversity among its people while Durban shows off its character with bright colours and abundant ‘vibe’. For Johannesburg, prosperity is the inspiration behind the city’s poster but the city also made sure it included support for the national football team, Bafana Bafana, with green and gold as the colours. Mark thinks Bloem did the best design job while Nelspruit did something different.
The family 4×4
By Ogilvy Cape Town for VW. The family 4×4! Creative Director: Gordon Ray, Art Director: Jamie Mietz Copywriter: Gordon Ray Via
Saving the world pizza by pizza
The St Elmos pizza franchise is embracing environmental sustainability with a number of efforts aimed at promoting energy conservation, recycling and the planting of trees. The group is setting benchmarks it aims to achieve by 2010. It’s also raising awareness of its aims amongst customers with its new message of sustainability being promoted on its website and on its packaging materials.
Drink coffee. Design. Repeat.
Ian Jepson is a designer for vida e caffe. Mark enjoys his playful style and decided to showcase some of his design work & illustrations.
If you have something to say…
If you have something to say… say it with a card. That is the philosophy behind an e-card service called inSPOT. It uses humorous (in a nice way) electronic cards and messages to allow people to inform sexual partners if they need to get tested for sexually transmitted infections.
The Knowledge Factory
Knowledge Factory is a customer and market insights company. They turn information into valuable and workable knowledge and tasked Code with a re-brand. The logo is derived for the letters K & F rotated to form a ‘knowledge factory’ creating a strong mark from which the new brand aesthetic was developed. This architecture was carried through Knowledge Factory’s sub-brands and product offerings. In addition a bold and playful illustration style was used within the brand including an animation illustrating the concept of looking further.
Pixel award winner Craig Jamieson isn’t big on awards. He just wins them (graciously).
One of our favourite websites was designed by 2008 Pixel Award winning designer Craig Jamieson of Digiguru. The sites attention to detail, unconventional calendar style navigation and functionality makes it a winner (have we mentioned the Pixel?). Mark tracks him down in Jozi for a short interview.