Stellenbosch Academy of Design and Photography presents our annual student showcase, The Future is Bright.
Please join us for the exciting viewing day, 21st November 2019 from 10:00 – 19:00. We’d love to see you there!
To RSVP, please send an email to Nicole here.
There’s something about photography of people on beaches we love. It’s something that, admittedly, we see quite a lot of – but it’s always great when it’s done well. This work from Spanish photographer Yosigo is, of course, done very well. His considered compositions (no mean feat when you can’t pose models) and choice of cropping is just perfect. Who wouldn’t want one of these images in their life?
You can see more of Yosigo’s work on his website here.
Marinel Sheu is an illustrator originally from Albania who know lives and works in Dublin, Ireland. We’re sharing his work today because, well, we think it’s pretty special! The way he creates filmic scenes, with an inbuilt narrative, is just incredible. And then when you add in how he treats light in his illustrations, you get something very special.
Amazing work from an amazing illustrator!
You can see more of his work on his Instagram page here.
Sugarcane juice is a very specific item. Creating packaging for it that really stands out is no easy task. The good news: Prompt Design in Thailand was up the challenge. They designed a plastic can / bottle with a shape and design very reminiscent of sugarcane. And thanks to the product design, they’re stackable, which makes them look even more like sugarcane, growing from the ground.
We love this!
A special piece of work by B&B Studio. We love the way they created a simple, type-driven identity for Raw Halo chocolate and how that has been expanded into other collateral This is the mark of quality design – it can live across media and applications and still be appealing and recognisable.
Top marks!
A bit of nautical-inspired design never hurt anyone! This work by Enpedra Estudio for Pridem’s London Dry Gin takes inspiration from classic British naval outfits and reimagines them in gin bottle form. This is a perfect, given the history of gin and where it comes from. What a fun idea!
Gin ahoy!
For Google’s Wonderful Weekends Chicago, they created this interactive gumball machine, which allows you to decide what things you’d like to do and it walks you through what Google services you can use to make it happen.
This is such a great example of how something like a ‘tutorial’, which can be as dry and as boring as you’d like it to be, can be made fun and exciting through the use of some smart thinking and creativity. More like this please!
Hello Monday is an international creative agency with offices in New York, Copenhagen and Aarhus. They describe themselves as a ‘creative studio that makes digital (and magical) ideas, products and experiences. We chose to share their site today because not only is it a joy to use (and uses some awesome illustration) it also has some incredible work featured from the team at Hello Monday. If you’re looking for inspiration, this is it!
You can visit the Hello Monday site here.
To celebrate Mexico’s Day of the Dead festival, Smirnoff, in collaboration with design agency Vault 49, created this awesome flavour and packaging concept. With a spicy tamarind flavour profile and spot-on illustrations (with UV ink of course), this is exactly the kind of thing you would want to buy come this time of year.
You can see more of the project below, including how they extended the look of the bottle into billboards and other collateral – showing just how well thought out this design was.
Amazing!
This campaign by Not Perfect Vilnius for VIC Sensitive Teeth Treatment is made entirely by the choice of illustration style used by the agency. Built off the idea that ‘food shouldn’t be torture’, we see old woodcut style images of people being tortured (as the old illustrations would have shown) but instead of medieval torture methods, they’re being fed things that can set off the pain of sensitive teeth.
Amazing!
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