Monthly Archives: January 2023

Bowmore – Art Direction

What a great execution for Bowmore by Leo Burnett Singapore! To celebrate the year of the rabbit, they created this gorgeous piece of out of home collateral, mixing product photography and illustration to great effect.

This poster is so gorgeous it feels like you could put it in a frame and hang it up on your wall – always a good sign!

Starting 2023 with a bang – Stellenbosch Academy students win at packaging awards!

We have started off the year having received the fantastic news that a group of our 2022 second-year graphic design students received awards for their packaging at the WPO WorldStar Student Packaging Awards 2022. Our students were entered into the International Competition by the organisers of the GoldPack Student Competition 2022.

The WorldStar Student Awards competition is an international packaging design competition open to students from all over the world who are involved in projects in the field of packaging, including structural design and/or graphic design. The competition is only open to students who have previously won an award in their region or country, which truly shows that it is an incredible achievement for both our students and their lecturers to have been selected.

A huge congratulations to the following students:

Theresa van Staden  – Sustainability Gold Award and Certificate of Merit

A huge well done too to our other students who won:

Nastasia Pestana  – Certificate of Recognition

Annabel Kay-Shuttleworth – Certificate of Recognition

Marleine Louw  – Certificate of Recognition

Amadea Yacumakis  – Certificate of Recognition

Anika Claassen – Certificate of Recognition

Emme Tocknell – Certificate of Recognition

Hannah Polley – Certificate of Recognition

We’ve included some more highlights from our students’ work below:

Anika Claassen:

Nastasia Pestana:

Emme Tocknell:

To see more of the award-winning work, you can see all of the winners here.

The North Face – Art Direction

This new hero film by B-Reel for the North Face acknowledges the heritage of the brand in hiking and mountaineering, while linking it to the way many people wear it now – for more fashion-based reasons.

We love the inspiration, taken from the placement of the North Face logo. It always appears on the back right shoulder of their garments – indicating the leading mountain climber and who to follow.

Such great work!

The Fabulous World of Dior – Multimedia

Bien-Fondé describe themselves as ‘the enlightened and thoughtful digital agency’ and with this work for Dior, we can see why. This website was created for a special exhibition at Harrods in London, The Fabulous World of Dior, that tells the story of Dior’s life and the places he lived and worked.

You can take a trip to that fabulous world, simply by clicking here.

Anthony Lam – Design

Anthony Lam is a designer based in Hong Kong whose studio has a name we must admit we’re pretty jealous of – atelier avocado! That’s perfect!

Today, we’re sharing some of his poster design work, which we must admit are nothing short of inspiring. We love this!

To see more of Lam’s work – check him out on Behance here, or visit his studio site above!