Hats Off

Made entirely out of traditional Japanese washi-paper, Naoto Fukasawa’s “Siwa” paper collection of hats manages to have a well-worn leather look and feel.

The “Ivy Cap”, “Hat” and “Tyrolean Hat” are made from paper called “naoron”, a lightweight material that is able to withstand moisture and weight. The durability of the material also means that it won’t tear easily.

Read further at Design Indaba

Nike feat. I love dust

I love dust sent me a few thoughts he had about designing the poster

Hey wayne.

Well, Southsea is a bit of a sailor town. The royal navy is here and as you can a=imagine, tattoo culture is huge. So i went with a typical vintage pin up girl. The tattoos i used are all sorta relevant, like, Skate or Die (a classic skateboarding slogan), the NIKE SB shoe, DK (dead kennedy's, classic skatepunk band), PD (piss drunks, an american skate gang) and the caravan.

I painted the girl and tattoos by hand in ink. I drew up all the type with the pen tool in illustrator. The poster was screen printed, should be getting some soon so can send you a better shot when they arrive at the studio.


should be soething up on here soon. http://ilovedust.com/blog/

thanks wayne. appreciate it man.

Go view i love dust illustration for the Nike Skateboarding poster by doing a backflip.

Student Typeface Design Workshop

As part of Cape Town Creative Week leading up to the Loerie Awards, a Typeface Design Student Workshop is taking place with Freda Sack. Freda, from Foundry Types in London, will take students through various aspects of design and the relevance of good typography. Students are encouraged to join us for this fun, interactive session. This is a two hour workshop and costs a mere R25. Please bring your pencils and drawing pads along.

The student workshop is being held at the False Bay College, Khayelitsha. I am currently awaiting GD Level Co-ordinators to see if we can accommodate this typeface workshop into the course next week. Buses will need to be organised.

Freda is also involved in ISTD (International Society of Type Designers).

There is further information about the various events and activities being held during Cape Town Creative Week here.

Cape Town Creative Week

24th September - 3rd October

http://www.creativeweekct.co.za/

Are you the new Banksy?

He is Britain’s most wanted artist, and he really likes that label it seems. He has been doing his thing for the past ten years now. With witty and subversive work, Banksy’s street art is loud and informative. His identity remains a secret, but with a spray can and some stencils, his art is renowned globally. If you are not familiar with this graffiti artist now, then begin your research. This competition is a grand opportunity to kick-start your design career.

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From Unity to Utility

The sound of the Vuvuzela is no more now that the World Cup is over. I did see a clip on the news showing it being used in a French Political Rally to irritate and get noticed. Although a South African Invention, Vuvuzelas are made, you guessed it, in China along with the rest of the worlds plastic. So what will happen with all the used Vuvuzelas? Do we keep them on show in our living rooms? Or are they already filling the spare cupboard or dusty shelf in the garage. Mine are still lying around the back of my car hoping to get stolen at the next car wash.

There is a concern that they will end up on the waste dumps as more plastic contributions. Perhaps they will pick up a gust of wind and let out one more ceremonious irritating blast or more likely add to the planets waste. Perhaps the luckier ones will be spotted by those who make the dumps there workplace for finding use out of waste, are turn them into an item of use.

There is a competition out to do such a thing - cut out the waste fills and invent a use for your old Vuvuzela(s).

Go to blow here and see what others are thinking of doing with their used Vuvuzelas. look at the More Photos in the Flickr Feed as well as Older Entries at the bottom of the page.

If you have any Vuvuzelas you don't need then let me know as we will find an inventive use for them through a workshop of sorts.

Knowtoneed support WoZela!

The Vuvention shown above is the Vuvu Steering Wheel Lock by Anica Swarts

Pencil Carvings of note!

Pencil carving

I am not sure who is doing these intricate carvings to give credit to. Use the scroll bar on the right side of the post to scroll down to the intricate visuals.

Bovey Lee’s Intricate Papercuts — Lost At E Minor: For creative people

Bovey Lee is a full-time artist, living and working in Philadelphia. Originally from Hong Kong, Lee creates highly intricate paper-cuts on rice paper by hand (no laser cutting machines involved) and then backs them with silk. Get inspired here

34 Typographic Sins

Typographic Sins

With Big thanks to Ray Elder and James Godfrey & Patrick Wilkey for typographic-sins

Get the tissues out for this great cheese advert

Retro-Media

Demolition of the Athlone Power Station - How will Cape Town remain COOL!

Sunday 22nd August 2010 11:56

Athlone towers implosion

Limited space available to view Athlone towers implosion – arrive early

The City has identified two areas from which to see the implosion of the Athlone cooling towers at 12:00 on Sunday, namely the Clyde Pinelands Sports Club and Rhodes Memorial. The two venues can accommodate approximately 4 000 and 500 people respectively.

The Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, will activate the implosion device from the Clyde Pinelands Sports Club at noon. Read further here

The Sunflower Foundation representing at JCs

SHOCK-O-LOZA

10 Common Typography Mistakes

1. Not enough leading
2. Not enough tracking
3. Getting tracking confused with kerning
4. Lengthy lines of text
5. Mixing too many typefaces and weights
6. Not using serifs for lengthy-text material
7. Printing similar values of color on top of each other
8. Reversed out text on less than 50% tints
9. Overusing centered text
10. Large body copy

kern your way here for more info and visuals

Typography tips from 7 top designers

Go hear from the experts by clicking here

The Mégane Experiment - Full Documentary

In 2010 Renault discovered a set of fascinating statistics. According to the figures, towns with more Mégane were happier, had higher rates of fertility and longer life expectancies.

To put this theory to the test, they've sent Claude, a 'consultant de joie' to Gisburn (Lancashire). A town with no Méganes and apparently very little joie de vivre, to conduct 'The Mégane Experiment'.

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Street Graffiti Tactic

Great example of guerrilla graffiti tactics on a subway ad in Berlin. The street artist printed out giant replicas of Photoshop’s tool bar and palettes and then pasted them onto this billboard. It exposes how these depictions of music stars are heavily edited - as well as other images of woman.