Miscellaneous
The good people at Iconfinder have put together some free Football (soccer) icon collections. Get ‘em while they are hot.
Loving these cool looking Soccer (football) World Cup 2010 Illustrations.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa is the 19th time the tournament will be played, and the first time on African soil. To celebrate this historic event, ESPN, Wieden+Kennedy and Cape Town-based AM I Collective created 33 original pieces of artwork: one for every participating country and one overarching World Cup piece. Each painting brings to life the story of that nation. The look of the artwork is inspired by hand-painted African art found in the streets and townships across South Africa, and the entire African continent. MORE INFO HERE
This one is a long time coming… Sixty40 Issue 11 just went off to print. Sorry for the long wait you ravenous dogs!
This morning I attended the first ever Plett Geek Breakfast organized by Simon Botes (@simonbotes). Not many attended (4 of us to be exact). Could be due to the fact that Plett is a very small village (not exactly a town) or that some of the hermits decided to stay in and see how the first one goes. For me it was great speaking with a bunch of like minded people which pretty much never happens considering we are so isolated (social media and IM does not count + excluding the SoPlett crew).
If you are interested in attending the next one, visit the event page for more info > Plett Geek Breakfast
I am in the process of doing a client illustration that will be used on some of their marketing material including their vehicle signage. This got me thinking about a vehicle wrap I was commissioned to do a bunch of years back and how successful that “campaign” has been to this day (I see that car around all time, you cant’ miss it). If done properly, vehicle signage is a remarkably effective marketing tool.
Coincidently I was recently forwarded some info concerning vehicle signage.
The Power of Portable Propaganda via SitePoint > Excerpt:
How often have you driven alongside a car or truck bearing company signage? Just about every day, right? Well, there’s a reason for it: brand signage is a great mobile advertisement. Never contemplated putting a decal on your car before? I recommend you reconsider. How often have you looked up a web address spotted on a car in front of you at the traffic lights, or recalled a company because you’ve seen their vehicles on the road? I have plenty of times.
But first, consider the image your car sends out. If you own an old clapper of a car, or a very sporty, new luxury car, think about your market. A bomb on the road may send the message that your services are cheap and nasty, or that you’re unsuccessful at what you do; similarly, if you drive a very fancy car, you may be construed as being too expensive or over the top.
If, however, your vehicle is somewhere in between, you may have just the right mobile billboard for your business.
So what should you put on your car? Well, I’ve seen plenty of examples featuring just the URL, but these don’t relay what the business does, unless your web address lists your main service. I’ve also seen a lot of vehicles with a business name only, so I’ve had no idea of what they do or how to contact them.
Here’s the minimum you should have: your business name, logo, product or service, and website address. Remember, though, that most drivers don’t want to read a novel on the back of your car — so keep it succinct.
I have added a lifestream (?) page where you can find a bunch of aggregated bits and bytes… stuff I find interesting, inspirational, news worthy etc.
Alternatively, you can follow my Google Buzz stream (or on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr).
Welcome to one2love.co.za ver2!
This is the first major rehash of our portfolio and blog site in a bunch of years. We specifically concentrated on presenting our portfolio pieces in a better way whilst not ignoring the blogging and social part of the site. Hopefully you will find what you are looking for more intuitively.
Approximately 50% of the current portfolio content have been uploaded with more to come over the coming weeks.
Enjoy.
One2love.co.za will be rebooted in the coming days. New design, new content and a cleaner approach. I have for now removed all my client and portfolio pages.
What is google wave and is it better than email? The guys at EpipheoStudios.com attempt to answer this questions.
Not Exactly new news… but with a 100 000 invites going out at the end of September I can no longer contain my excitement. @ Google, “pick me!”
No secret that I love living in Plettenberg Bay / The Garden Route. “Handmade” wrote a great post about the realities of living and working in the Garden Route of South Africa (excerpt > head on over there to read the whole thing):
The Garden Route is in my opinion the best place to live in South Africa. Its a mind shift once you move down. Its almost as if the big city, after 6 months becomes this other planet where you used to live, but never had a life and for the life of you, you can’t imagine why and how you were fooled by the illusion that success is a big house, a car and a high paying job.
via South Africa Garden Route Forum – Want to buy a business.
Done and dusted… the new site is up (as you can see). Still need to load a mountain of work to the porfolio section though.
I was a bit quick to decide I support Jon Engle in his battle against the Stock Art site that claimed he was using their art on some of his client logos (previous post). It is apparently not so clear as to who is in the wrong -> see this excellent post by The Logo Factor – The Jon Engle vs. Stockart.com story – an anti-spec work parable?
Moral of the story; however this playes out, it serves as another nod towards the wrongs of Spec Work and the negative effects it has on the Graphic Design industry.
