For the latest campaign that promotes Pendoring, South Africa’s Afrikaans language advertising award, agency Joe Public uses well known Afrikaans characters to illustrate what could happen if the language continues to be neglected. The pay-off line reads: ‘Moenie die taal afskeep nie’ (Don’t neglect the language) and the call to action reads: ‘Skep in Afrikaans en keer dat ons mooiste taal sy glans verloor’ (Create in Afrikaans and prevent our most beautiful language from losing its lustre).”
Tag archives: design
JZ sex pistol
IF THE TSHIRT FITS WEAR IT is a new South African t-shirt label that promises to focus on amusing social and political observations. Get them at Big Blue, Boom Boom Boom, Kitsch+Kool or Sowearto! The range is designed by Bradley Kirshenbaum of LoveJozi fame.
Minimalism can never be true to itself.
MarkLives has been featuring the work of Alistair Palmer over tha last week and a half. His work revolves around design and art. Alistair believes that minimalism can never be true to itself. There will always be more to subtract.
Sheshwe shoes for Bokkie
Over the next couple of days MarkLives will be featuring the work of Alistair Palmer. His work revolves around design and art. Bokkie makes footwear, the first range predominantly uses sheshwe prints and fun casual footwear styles. I wanted to convey the feeling, attitude and the positive attitude of the people who inspire the brand.
Alistair Palmer makes skateboards of clouds
Over the next couple of days MarkLives will be featuring the work of Alistair Palmer. His work revolves around design and art. He loves to work with his hands and enjoys playing with colour and texture. He finished school in 2000, started a business based around contemporary culture, went to an art school and then moved around a bit doing various creative things [and a few not so creative things…insert advertising].
Meet KillerCreative
Mark is showcasing the work of a number of South African based freelance graphic designers and illustrators over the coming weeks. Cape Town based designer Anthony Nell blogs at KillerCreative and has a great portfolio up at Behance. Here is some of his work.
Sneakers with sole
For our final update of the work of Sindiso Nyoni we picked a commercial project for Sportscene sneakers. Sindiso did the character design which comprised illustrations for sneaker box packaging.
Client: Lowebull (Cape Town)
It is sad no one truly knows a nation …until one has been inside its jails!
Only two more updates left on MarkLives.com of the stunning work of Zimbabwean born illustrator Sindiso Nyoni. He currently works at Amicollective. Today: a poster series for Constitution Hill, South Africa. The posters are based on historical political prisoners held at the old fort prison complex which now houses South Africa’s Constitutional Court.
Create Withtank
Withtank.com is a very cool South African start-up with a remarkable sitebuilding tool offering entrepreneurs and creatively inclined web users a way to get a website without much of the costs usually associated with doing so. Alan Alston, one of the founders, chatted with Mark about his dream to keep the Web simple and easy, how it’s maxing out his credit card and what cool features and partners he plans adding in the near future.
To kill a country 101 (howzit Bob)
Zimbabwean born illustrator and activist Sindiso Nyoni created this Free Zim activist graffiti tag, with accompanying posters addressing the suppressed state Zimbabwe is in under the continued dictatorial rule of Robert Mugabe. He currently works at Amicollective – an outfit known for grabbing the hottest talent off the market and living up to its reputation (as is obvious).