Shoote logo design

I was going through my backup files and I came across this logo I designed. It was for a photography studio in Johannesburg. I checked out their new website (http://www.shoote.co.za), and I’m glad they are stilling using the logo. I would love to see how they have applied the logo on other applications. I think its a good design and love the thinking/concept behind it.

Cool concept (I think)!

2007 Poster

Concept design for the annual Soccer Cup Game. I believe its a cool design/concept, its sad we did not get to do the campaign and the actual Cup Game event.

fun on the rooftop

Having fun on the rooftop of the new water front mall in Bloemfontein. We were taking pictures of the opposite building.

Annual Reports

I have been designing annual reports (3) for the past month, and it’s a drag. Working with government people is an experience, that if you make it, you live to tell stories about for rest of your working career. Firstly they give incomplete content for a 200 pager and you have a day (8 working hours but for a designer its 24 working hours) to do it. After spending sleepless nights they come back with updated/corrected content, and to them it’s just a click of a button to update the content.

I think we should have a workshop for clients (government clients) to take them through the process of working with creative/production people. Educate them on the different steps we take to get to the final product. Or may be lady luck was not on my side, and I ended up with the departments that know little about the design process.

www.poetrypotion.com

This is a website by an old friend of mine, that I helped to create (with Kamuso). I think she is a good poet/writer and this website is a great idea. It took long to get it going and now its a matter of growing it and feeding it...and it feeding the visitors soul with good poetry, news and art. Take some time and visit it www.poetrypotion.com

workspace

Since I have moved back to my hometown, Bloemfontein, living with my family. This is my workspace at home in my bedroom, when I'm not in the office. This is where some of my ‘best’ designs come from.

I'm currently working for a company called C-Squared as a senior designer, even though I sometimes feel like a junior designer. I think it’s the fear that the title "senior" will go up to head and I will think I know it all. This will make me not learn and believe what I'm doing is the best and I'm the best. Like Paul Adren says (in his book - It's not how good you are, Its how good you want to be) 'experience is the opposite of being creative'.

Working at C-Squared is been great, working with Johann Venter(Art Director) whom I’m learning quite a lot from.