Pantone & Puffin Publishers Pair Up to Redesign the Classics
What comes to mind when you think of the word classic? Is it a list of your favorite typefaces? Maybe names like Chip Kidd, Herb Lubalin or Paula Scher? For book publisher Puffin, classic means combining reading with the love of color—Pantone colors. On June 6th, Puffin released a redesign of six classic novels with […]
Perky Bros
Perky Bros is one of my long time favorite studio, as I already feature their work here and there, and even if the Walter Magazine volume 1! Here comes a selection of their latest projects. SOURCE: http://www.mr-cup.com/blog/packaging/item/perky.html #packaging #print #mrcup #perkybros #design #creative
Ad of the Week: KFC story time
by Oresti Patricios (@orestaki) Ogilvy & Mather Johannesburg brings storytelling alive for KFC in a campaign that uses technology to revisit and refresh traditions of days that have long passed. I must tell you how important reading and the telling of tales is for the younger folk. For children, a love of stories may lead […]
ClemenGold Gin
Creative Agency: Fanakalo Project Type: Produced, Commercial Work Packaging Content: Gin Location: South Africa ClemenGold Gin is hand crafted according to an age-old recipe. Classic Cape Dry style, it is smooth with subtle hints of citrus complementing almond and cinnamon. Excellent in a refreshing gin and tonic, it also is good in the classic gin […]
So Proud to have worked on this KFC Project
KFC ‘Suppertime Stories’ offers dinner and a show The KFC ‘Suppertime Stories’ marketing campaign offered an original pairing of the iconic KFC Bucket with a free app. Placing the limited edition packaging upside down in a dark room and playing the app underneath it offered viewers a reading of an African tale with sounds and […]
Igor Bastidas creates surreal, 90s-inspired worlds “from his subconscious”
Miami-based illustrator and animator Igor Bastidas grew up in the 90s, which he cites as a “period with great visual culture that inspired me to study graphic design and also make my way as an illustrator”. Having studied design in Caracas, Igor soon drifted towards animation and taught himself the skills “basically by watching YouTube […]
Big SHOUT OUT to our friends Jean Mortlock and the Team at LUNG ANIMATION STUDIO in the fairest Cape Town.
Check out there site www.lung.co.za and on Instagram @lung.animation, local South African ANIMATION STUDIO doing excellent work. Proudly South Africans doing Animation, VFX and Makers of Pretty Pictures # Animation #VFX #Animationstudio #CapeTown #Animationstudios
Telling the Story of Bonnie & Clyde Through Gin Packaging
You’ve heard of Bonnie and Clyde, the notorious criminals of the early 1900s. However, the reason we like Bonnie & Clyde Gin is because it focuses on a different part of the Bonnie and Clyde story—that is, a focus on these two individuals who were young and in love. We spoke with Simone Hodgskiss of […]
Football Editions finds inspiration in the legends of African football
For the second publication by Football Editions, created by Michael Willows and Wayne Trevor Townsend, inspiration was found in the recent African Cup of Nations tournament, hosted in Gabon and won by Cameroon. African Stars is a limited edition book that pairs a legend of African football with a pattern inspired by the former player’s […]
LASTING IMPRESSIONS – THROWBACK THURSDAY
Lasting Impressions: Nolan Oswald Dennis on ‘The Black Photo Album/Look at Me: 1890-1950’ Written by Gabriella Pinto on November 7, 2016 in Art, Photography Nolan Oswald Dennis is interested in social fictions and how we use them to uphold, pursue, justify and gain a foothold in the world. His drawings, paintings and installations are reactionary […]
