Design Indaba 2012
6th February 2012
Design Indaba is fast approaching and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store for 2012.
Spanish industrial designer, product designer and artist Jaime Hayón is high up on my list of people to check out (Hope Bird is one of his) as is MDC Interiors.
I am also crazy excited about “A Taste of Sónar” which is on at City Hall on Friday 2nd March. I love that Design Indaba is broadening its creative scope and throwing some awesome electronica into the mix!
CommentBig Love
2nd February 2012
Thought this Big Love Bowl by Alessi was a beautiful shape, plus ice cream always tastes better shared.
Oh Expletive!
25th January 2012
Oh Expletive! is a project by Safwat Saleem about “ass kicking and mayhem.” Unicorns, Zombies and 8-Bit creature fights – what more could you want?!
The Kickstarter project has already been fully backed and after asking for $3000 for screen print and t-shirt production costs, pledges so far have raised $22,655 which is incredible.
The video explaining the project is awesome – take a minute to watch it – and you can check out the rest of the designs over on the Oh Expletive! Kickstarter page.
(via DesignWorkLife)
Peace & Love
20th January 2012
Some Peace & Love from London based artist and designer Zakee Shariff. Aside from having an awesome name, she also makes amazing designs.
Happy Friday Kids.
The Firefly
18th January 2012
2 days after my gorgeous little nephew Maddox was born last month, he had to go back into the hospital to have phototherapy treatment for jaundice.
Apparently this is quite a common problem with newborns, so I was really happy to read about The Firefly this morning – the first low cost phototherapy treatment device being used to treat babies in rural communities in South East Asia. Developed by a Massachusetts company Design that Matters, their mission is “…to create products that improve the services of social enterprises in developing countries.”
Read more about Design that Matters here.
(via YankoDesign)
Julia Kostreva
6th January 2012
Julia Kostreva‘s notebooks and 2012 planners are awesome. I love all the East Coast style screenprinting, letterpressed goodness she’s got going on.
(via DesignSponge)
Tattly™ 2
3rd January 2012
After buying Alex some Tattly™ tattoos for Christmas I got all excited about wedding tattoos for Si and I! Check out Tattly’s Deming lettraset tattoo I’ve just bought.
Oh yeah!
Jordan Metcalf
22nd December 2011
Sigh. I spent a good 20 minutes looking through Cape Town based designer Jordan Metcalf‘s site this morning and I am completely in love with this lightbox he made for a group exhibition at Salon 91.
I want it on my wall. Please.
Playful / Pablo Alfieri
19th December 2011
Whenever I see new work by Pablo Alfieri I can’t help but sigh. It’s so beautiful and I’m always inspired by what he produces. His ideas are quite simple on the whole but he executes them in such a polished way. Colourful, bright and bold and usually with a little twist. Amazing.
Check out more of the Argentinian designer’s work on flickr.
Tattly™
16th December 2011
Tattly™ is the super cool ‘Designy Temporary Tattoo’ shop started up by the always inspiring SwissMiss.
I’ve just bought these 3 beauties for my awesome little cousin Alex. He’s 5 and lives in Australia. I can imagine him rocking it out on his first day of school with a robot tattoo and a late watch. Cool!
Elephants’ Graveyard
28th June 2011
Continuing with my obsession for all things letterpressed is this very cool poster by Richard Ardagh of Elephants’ Graveyard. It reminds me of when I used to listen to Counting Crows. Buy it here.
(This week I’m meeting Gitanjali from The Letterpress Company here in Cape Town to talk about some letterpress invitations. Can’t wait – will let you know how it goes…)
