Quinton J Damstra – Q.J.D. Design Studio, Capetown

QJD design studio was established in 1999 in cape town. we specialise in designing new homes – however with the privilege of designing a home comes the excitement of designing the furniture. this is a small sample of a few of the pieces that have made their way into a few homes around cape town.

Here are a few links that showcase a bit of Quinton’s design work and a few design forums he has set up that his passionate about – He is a cape town based muizenberg fringe creative – been cutting design swaith outside of the mainstream for 12 yrs – you might see a value in his contribution. see links below

Tob Billing Article

Yanko Design

Challenge.bfi.ord”

View BlogSpot

Furniture Design BlogSpot

www.wildetecture.com

www.erxell.com

Quinton J Damstra

Filed under: Art & Craft projects, Graphic Designers, Handcraft Designers

Crazy Sexy Cool

WALL DECALS

With CrazySexyCool Wall Decals you can decorate your walls and just about anything with a smooth surface to reflect your individuality AND we even do shop window displays!

Come browse through our awesome designs in the Decals Shop , ask for a quote on Custom Decals, or read our Sticker Blog for some inspiration.

Marcel
Email marcelwasserman@yahoo.com
Visit Crazy Sexy Cool!

Filed under: Art & Craft projects, Fashion shopping online, Graphic Designers, onlineshopping

Studio Muti

Studio Muti is Clinton Campbell and Miné Jonker. We’re two illustrators based in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa.

We combine our creative talents to provide a broad spectrum of illustration, typography and design.

Drop us a mail if you’d like us to work on a project, collaborate or just to say hello!

If you let yourself love a wild thing
We exhibited these prints at a group show at Salon91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GTR
Cover illustrations for UK financial magazine Global Trade Review
 

 

Visit Studio Muti for more graphic illustrations…
My eyes were caught in the beauty of thier art work…

Filed under: Graphic Designers

Graphic art of Francois Gelderblom

Got 5 minutes to spare? Be entertained by Cape Town talent, view the work of graphic artist & photographer, Francois Gelderblom.

Filed under: Graphic Designers, Photography, graphicdesign, Photography

Showcase your work, it’s easy peasy with Tank.

Tank is THE application that S.A. designers are using to create their porties online. I caught up with Alan Alston from Tank and he gave a good explanation of just why Tank is doing so well.

1. Easy to edit design

Designers ‘pick up and run’ with the tank application – familiarising themselves with the app, how everything fits together, how easily the different skins can be customised, and how quickly they can roll-out a simple, content-managed website for their clients. Once you’ve setup a site you can also tweak aspects like design and layout, you even have options of inputting your own css code into your site for complete visual control. Then of course the other side of the coin is true as well: we have lots of creatives (illustrators, photographers, stylists, artists, writers, designers, galleries, architects, even agencies and consultancies) build sites for themselves; and in some cases we team them up with designers to get the most out of their new sites.

2.  Common web terminology

Tank utilises common web design terminology in the app too: we use information architecture terminology like global and utility navigation during site build, we emphasize aspects like form (the way your site looks), function (the features that defines the way your site works), control (control who can manage the site alongside yourself) and constraints (limitations imposed upon your site).

3. Searchable & Google friendly

And course all content you add is indexable and searchable by Google too – best practices are ensured all the way through. Besides all of this it’s a no-brainer to quickly add Google Analytics to your site to track your visitors, or Google Apps to your domain for email. Tank ‘plays nicely’ with other web apps and this type of integration is quite seamless.

PS – follow Alan on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AlanAlston – if you want!

Filed under: Animation & Illustration Designers, Graphic Designers, Social Networking

Send in your SA design links

Filed under: Advertising, Art & Craft projects, Creative Writing, Fashion Designers, Fashion shopping online, Graphic Designers, Handcraft Designers, Young Fashion Designers

Between 10 and 5

Between 10 and 5 is asking people to put up between 5 and 10 of what they think is their best work – it can be work that was seen by everyone as a TV ad during the Currie Cup final, something that was sent out as an internal design document or a concept party that only 50 people attended. We want to know what you’ve been working on.

Filed under: Advertising, Graphic Designers, Social Networking, Advertising, collective, graphicdesign, socialnetworking

Durban Graphic Design Collective

Ethek Collective {eth-ic kuh-lek-tiv} is from Durban (aka eThekweni) in South Africa and deals in hand screened posters and goods. In their own words: “We’re turned on by the tactile quality of screenprinted posters. No sir, no crappy digital/litho prints here. We love it, we expect you will too.” You can find them on facebook and im sure they open for commissons.

Filed under: Graphic Designers, collective, durban, graphicdesign