Wednesday 28 July 2010

EX-Student appears in online magazine



Crystal Campbell is an ex-student of CPUT graphic design. Go read up in an interview with her in Design Magazine No 16 at this online zine zone

Bruce Lee Design Awards



Hi Guys! The lovely people from The President is launching a really cool and exciting award, please see the press release a little lower... no a little more.

They are coming to CPUT on Wednesday 4th August to introduce the award and get the students excited! Please tell all your students about this great opportunity and encourage them to attend the presentation - the project, prices and possible exposure is brilliant!!

Presentation details:
Venue: L5 in the Cape Town Lecture Theater Complex
Time 12:15 - 13:00
Date: 4th August 2010

From the Gutter to Glory: The President announces Bruce Lee Design Awards.

The President is proud to announce the first ever Bruce Lee Design Awards, brought to you by JayJays and MK.

A design competition with a difference, there are three categories in which entrants can channel their talents: T-shirt design, Band poster design and Motion graphics. Anyone is able to enter and there is no entry fee. Entry deadline is 1st November 2010, and no entries will be accepted thereafter. Finalists will be notified on the 31st of January 2010 and winners will be announced on the 26th of March at the second annual Toffie Pop Culture Festival in Cape Town.

The overall winner will receive a cash prize of R10 000 with extra prizes for category winners. JayJays will produce and sell the t-shirt category winner and MK will broadcast the motion graphics winner on high rotation. MK will also commission the band poster design winner to produce a design for one of their events.

The Toffie Pop Culture festival will take place from 24 – 26 March 2011 at the Cape Town City Hall. Tickets are R680 until the end of August and R750 from 1 September. Students pay R500. E-mail toffie@thepresident.co.za for bookings.

ENDS

Sunday 25 July 2010

The Showcase of Beautiful Pinhole Photography



Camera is a remarkable piece of innovation. However, it is people — professionals and newbies alike — who make it truly remarkable. It’s the photographer behind the camera. It’s their imagination, passion and talent and knowledge of the medium. You don’t need a high-end costly equipment to get beautiful results. Just your talent, a way of looking at different things and imagination is together more than enough for a great shot. It’s also the ability to envision the final result in your mind which is important.

Pinhole camera is a simple home-made camera (toy camera) which only uses film or CCD sensor (more recently) enclosed in a fully opaque container and does not use any lenses or any kind of optical instruments. You can easily construct this camera yourself using things lying around like match boxes or any kind of boxes, paper, duct tape etc. The small amount of light passing through this pin sized hole produces image onto a photographic film or a CCD sensor.

Image and intro courtesy of Smashing magazine - read more from here

Sunday 18 July 2010

Can Creativity Be Taught?



For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it. Read further and here

Friday 9 July 2010

Dutch Football Federation - 2010 FIFA World Cup T-shirt.



One of the greatest items to come from the 2010 WC. Did anyone see one of these pieces of amazing and clever designs?
If you want to read more then head on this way