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Spread the Marmite Love & Win up to $1250!

Spread the Marmite Love & Win up to $1250!

The great gang over at our favourite T-Shirt design studio Springleap.com are holding a design competition in conjunction with Marmite – that favourite of South African spreads. Did you know that it’s been around since 1902?! Here’s the...

 

Cape Town is World Design Capital 2014

Cape Town is World Design Capital 2014

After months of planning and presentations, and a nail-biting wait for this mornings’ announcement, it is now official: Cape Town has been elected as the World Design Capital 2014! World Design Capital? What is the World Design Capital you...

 

Ford EVOS Concept coming to Frankfurt Motorshow 2011? (and to a Cloud near you too)

Ford EVOS Concept coming to Frankfurt Motorshow 2011? (and to a Cloud near you too)

Ford recently unveiled this striking concept vehicle that they are calling the Ford EVOS Concept. And the demo build model may be making an appearance at this months’ Frankfurt Motor Show. Whether it makes it onto a showroom floor near...

 

A Story for Every Picture: No Words

A Story for Every Picture: No Words

You said goodbye ‘I am sorry, I can’t do this anymore. It is not you, it is me’ I could not answer I did not want you to hear the sadness that was hiding in my voice I just nodded while I was fighting the tears ‘I am sorry’ You...

 

A Story for Every Picture: No Escape

A Story for Every Picture: No Escape

You make my blood pulse Passion crippled my resistance Explosions of ecstasy I don’t want to let go   You make my blood pulse Fear crippled my resistance Explosions of anger You don’t want to let go   Trapped in misery and confusion An...

 

U2 360° Claw Stage Setup Time Lapse

U2 360° Claw Stage Setup Time Lapse

The friendly folk over at Big Concerts posted a picture of the mammoth stage construction being undertaken in the FNB Stadium at the moment. It shows the initial stages of the staging for this weekends’ U2 concert being erected. (You can see...

 

Blink Stefanus and 2011

Blink Stefanus and 2011

This year sure started with a bang. Rapport phoned last week and asked if they could do a story about a Blink Stefanus design. I knew Rapport has many conservative readers but I didn’t know people would get aggressive about the drawing...

 

Stefanus Nel talks about Blink Stefanus to Stefanus Nel

Stefanus Nel talks about Blink Stefanus to Stefanus Nel

I still have people ask me “what is Blink Stefanus?” And I’m still not 100% sure what to answer. Which brings me to my next question. Does a brand have to stand for something? Why can’t it stand for nothing? After all...

 

Mystic Coke – Concept Coca-Cola Bottle Design

Mystic Coke – Concept Coca-Cola Bottle Design

The iconic Coca-Cola bottle has come of age. Well conceptually at least it has. French designer Jerome Olivet is responsible for this radical version of the classic cola bottle. If future Coke gets this as its packaging, then the future looks...

 

The Evolution of War in a T-Shirt

The Evolution of War in a T-Shirt

Spotted this great graphic tee over on Crazy Dog T-Shirts earlier today. The shirt shows a World War I hand-grenade alongside a similar device from WWII. The third is a computer mouse labelled W.O.W. for World of Warcraft – the online...

 

High End City Life or the Simplicity of a Beach Cabin?

High End City Life or the Simplicity of a Beach Cabin?

source: decorabilitate

 

Vote for Your “I Love Football” Google Doodle Winner

Voting for the International Winner of the Doodle for Google – I Love Football is open at the moment, and I encourage you to head over there and click on the entry submitted by South Africa’s very own Doodler, Nikisha Lalloo. http://www.google.com/intl/en_za/lovefootball/doodle4google/vote/index.html#8...

 

Whatever Floats Your Boat, I Guess

Whatever Floats Your Boat, I Guess

“Seems like a bunch of the rest of the world — well behind our curve — actually dislikes mid-century pink bathrooms. They will regret what they have done. On the other hand, I believe that to know pink bathrooms is to love them. Pink bathrooms...

 

Oil

Oil

Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s graphic statement – Helvetica overlaying vintage illustrations – on the current ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Stéphane Massa-Bidal’s graphic statement–Helvetica overlaying vintage illustrations–on...

 

Free 2010 World Cup Supporters Avatar Icons & Badges – All 32 Teams

Free 2010 World Cup Supporters Avatar Icons & Badges – All 32 Teams

Visit The BlaBla Blogs’ Photobucket Album if you’re having trouble copying & saving, or if you need embedding links and codes Voteds’ campaign over at his blog, and the challenge laid down by WhiteSockGirl aka The Fab Bitch recently,...

 
 
 
 

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