Issue 29

DESIGNTIMES south africa’s monthly creative resource

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HAPPINESS

Interview with Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller the two creative minds behind the most successfull Coca-Cola campaign ever.

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NOVEMBER 2008 Issue No.29 ZAR 5 EUR €2, UK £2, US $3

MINGO LAMBERTI

Mingo Lamberti’s Brag Hodgkiss has just released the third range of tee shirts. The theme of the new range is the electric range.

We ask him a few questions.

our partners in alphabetical order

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DESIGNFOROBAMA

The United States President-elect has had an unprecedented amount of art and free publicity being generated by some very talented people on his behalf.

2008 Loerie Award Winner

NEWS

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FIFA fine art

Japanese super phone The chance of this Japanese superphone coming to South Africa or anywhere else outside of Japan is slim. However, chances of international expansion have been dramatically improved now that Japan’s government is behind a push to promote its phones abroad. This Exilim-branded Casio Hitachi mixup is equippped with an 8 megapixel camera and with any luck, it’s using that new Omnivision sensor meant to revolutionize cameraphones. Casio’s taking

Last week, Global Brands Group announced the appointment of MMX Art as the official licensee of the production and marketing of fine art relating to the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This is the first time that art has formed part of the official suite of World Cup products. MMX Art will manufacture and supply fine art products, branded with FIFA marks, for sale to Global Brands Group authorised buyers and distribute them within the approved channels, worldwide. These products range from original paintings, sculptures, and ceramics to exclusive limited edition numbered prints, as well as a range of fine art collectibles and merchandising.

An excited Craig Mark, managing director of MMX Art remarked, “Art works celebrating the confluence of the African spirit with the ultimate global sporting spectacle will provide commercial prospects unmatched in the 80 year history of the FIFA tournament. Art has never before formed part of the official suite of World Cup products. Our product range will appeal equally to discerning football fans and the broader community.

the same tactic Sony Ericsson does with their Cyber-shot cellphones and placing a camera brand on a high-end camera phone, hopefully to advance both the phone and the camera brand. As a follow up to the Casio W53CA, this 3G W63CA flip will no doubt feature the same high-resolution, 800 x 480 pixel swiveling display of its cousin.

With autumn nearing, we expect to see the W63A announced any day now in a typical shotgun blast of seasonal phones.

Hirst diamond skull The famous diamond covered skull by British artist Damien Hirst will be exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from November until the end of December.

The museum’s director Director Wim Pijbes says that the contract for showing the work is the strictest he has ever signed.

“The skull has to be placed in a dark room without anything else around it. Everything we have to do is in the contract. We can’t even mention who the owner is.”

The skull, that of an 18th century European covered in platinum and 8,601 diamonds, was sold in 2007 to a group of investors for one hundred million dollars, the largest sum ever paid for a work by a living artist.

Motoaura

Inspired by luxury watches and handcrafted design, Motorola introduces Aura, a handset we think breaks convention in the design and manufacturing of mobile devices. Its form recalls the timeless beauty of luxury watches with a Swiss-made main bearing and more than 200 parts that create a seamless opening for the handset.

Will the real hybrid please stand up

Three Dee Three D Graphic Spaces highlights a current trend in international graphic design, more and more visual designers are staging their compositions as three dimensional scenarios in order to turn them into posters, magazine covers, web sites, and animated films. The result is a host of suggestive new pictorial worlds that range from playfully arrangements of still lifes to room-filling installations. This book offers an inspiring look at the various modeling techniques and means of expression involved. www.springer.com

Big blue Gerrit Breitenbach has won himself R20 000 in cash, as the winner of the 2008 Makhulu Polane tshirt design competition.

His winning design will be sold in all Big Blue and Kitsch & Kool stores during November and December. The aim of the Makhulu Polane competition is to discover new South African talent and this year’s entries were very representative of South Africa’s rich design and illustration talents. www.bigblue.co.za

The sculpture is titled ‘For The Love of God’. The title of the piece comes from Hirst’s mother who asked her son, “For the love of God, what are you going to do next?” For Hirst all his art is about death.

This piece was influenced by Mexican skulls encrusted in turquoise. “I remember thinking it would be great to do a diamond one but just prohibitively expensive” he recalls. “Then I started to think maybe that’s why it is a good thing to do. Death is such a heavy subject, it would be good to make something that laughed in the face of it.” Later he was quoted saying: “What have I done? Because it’s going to need high security all its life.”

Fresh look Freshpak teas has launched two flavours to add to the existing range of Rooibos, Herbal and Green teas. Aromatic Fennel and Restoring Ginger join the Freshpak range. In addition to the new flavours, the packaging across the entire range has been revamped, to feature a more modern look and support the brand’s offering, and Chamomile and Green tea will now be available in bulk packs. Icons which give information about the product have been featured on the front of the packs. This enables quick purchasing decisions - consumers can see exactly what they are buying. Despite the new modern packaging, the brand still retains its distinctive look will still be clearly apparent to consumers. Although the new packaging design is a little reminicent of Woolworths packaging it’s a job well done.

Although the fuel price is dropping, so are our fossil fuel reserves and it is for this very reason that hybrid technology still has many people beaming green. Hybrids are cars with two power units; one being a normal engine and the other electric. On startup and lower speed the electric unit powers the car and at higher speeds the engine seamlessly takes over. The batteries on the electric units charge while the engine is operational; charging also occurs under braking. So there are times when the car has zero emissions.

Thus many Hollywood stars are flying on their private jets to a Toyota dealership to trade in the Humvee’s and Harley’s for a Prius. Granted it’s pretty much the only production car available that’s been somewhat green and for someone trying to make a difference it’s better than nothing.

Hybrids up until now have been a bit like an overweight person with a water bottle in their hand walking to MacDonald’s - it’s a step in the right direction, only not.

Let’s give the stats an opportunity to speak for themselves.

Lexus recently launched the Lexus GS450h Hybrid model. Price - R635 000 (SE model), Fuel Consumption - 9.48 liters/

100km, CO2 emissions 221 gram/Km, Top speed 250km/h, 0-100km – 6.5sec.

How does it compare with its non-hybrid rivals? Lexus is a premium brand, so lets stack it up against the class leading Audi A6 3.0TDi (diesel) quattro. Price – R540 000, Fuel Consumption 7.6 liters/100km, CO2 emission 199 grams/km, Top speed 240km/h, 0-100km 8.0 sec.

The Lexus Hybrid costs R100 000 more, spews out more C02 and has a far higher fuel consumption but has slightly better performance figures than the Audi. And Herein lies the problem, up and until now they have not quite quite lived up to what they promise, they are not that light light on fuel and all this at a premium price.

So if it’s the planet you’re trying to save and you want to do it in comfort and style, get an Audi - or any diesel car for that matter – they’ll do it better than a hybrid and save your bank balance. Hybrids still have a long way to go before making any significant difference. For a real fossil fuel beater we’ll have to wait for a car than runs on good ol’ water. Impossible, I hear you sniggering. Maybe, or maybe not : for the ultimate conspiracy theory google Stan Meyer.

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The minds BEHIND THE HAPPINESS FACTORY Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller Kylie Matulick and Todd Mueller are the creative minds behind the Happiness Factory. We had a beief chat to them and asked them about the very successfull campaign and the work behind it.

How did the Happiness Factory come about and what was the brief asking for?

We were sent a brief from the agency on a Friday with an idea of a bottle journeying through a vending machine. They had a few ideas of certain processes they wanted to visualize, like filling, capping and chilling the bottle...but it was very open to interpretation. We spent the weekend designing our vision of this world...that being machinery embedded into epic fantasy landscapes with fun characters handling the bottle. We wrote and sketched some fun scenarios and sent it off Sunday night. By Tuesday we were on a plane to meet with the agency in Amsterdam to make this thing happen. It was fast, spontaneous and a great collaboration of minds. None of us knew that we were making something that would resonate as much as it has.

When was the first animated spot made?

We completed the first spot in June 2006.

We then create two more short film length pieces in 2007. We’re currently creating our third Happiness Factory story which should be out in January 2009.

Who was all involved?

We had a huge team on this and they were all completely dedicated to making the best thing possible. We were humbled by their mad skills! It’s all in the details and no one left a rock unturned.

Who came up with all the characters?

The thought was to create a character for each bottling process i.e. a character to transport the empty bottle, a character to fill the bottle, to cap the bottle, to imbue the bottle with love, to chill it and then deliver it. There were many other processes that we developed but unfortunately couldn’t fit into the time we had. We really wanted these characters to be appealing

No idea was too outlandish and somewhat cute, but have an edge that, on closer inspection, could raise an eyebrow. The character development was a fun collaborative experiment with our storyboard artist Ben Chan, the agency creatives and us. No idea was too outlandish so as you can imagine we shared many a chuckle!

What was working with Coca-Cola like?

The agency creatives Hunter Hindman and Rick Condos were amazing collaborators with great ideas. We all pushed each other to find the best idea. There was alot of healthy creative juice flying around.

Tell us how the project has grown from the original television spot?

As mentioned, we created a 4 minute short film (kind of an epic journey to save the coke machine) and a little 4 minute mocumentary of the characters talking about their lives in the factory. We saw a little webclip the other day of an iceskating

festival in Budapest where they had people dressed as some of the characters skating around and spectators speed skating with large foam coke bottles in between cones.... it was pretty hilarious! Happiness Factory has it’s own internal brand manager at the head office if that’s any indication of what it means to Coke.

What is it like to have created this spot which has become Coca-Cola’s most successful global campaign ever?

You’re only as good as your last job! but it’s great that so many people around the world have seen this piece. I think the number of viewers was around 100 million peeps last we heard.

What do you think makes it successful?

I think, part of its success was the process. We didn’t have a lot of time to belabor anything so the process was very spontaneous and l think, as a result, most of the good ideas remained in the spot. In the days of focus group testing so many ideas get watered down to the point of ‘mildly entertaining’. l think this was a great example of taking a risk and fully embracing an idea without inflicting it with too many rules. Coke was willing to push the boundaries a bit and we were able to take full advantage of that creatively. l feel that all of our best work has been created in that environment. People love to be challenged they love to see the effort in a craft and they love to be entertained, if you can get at least two of those things right then you’re golden. Cheers, Kylie and Todd.

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PHOTOGRAPHY

African images Africa Media Online’s picture library, africanpictures.net, has just launched a useful tool that will not only ease certain picture searches but should spark fresh story ideas: collections of images around frequently-searched-for themes, by some of Africa’s greatest photographers.

The 28 and increasing compilations cover the broadest array of subjects, from the graphic patterns of African Texture to collections focussed on adventure, landscape or tourism images, while yet others look at African conflict, welfare and education, showcasing work by the likes of David Goldblatt, Guy Tillim, Paul Weinberg, Greg Marinovich, Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, Cedric Nunn, Felix Masi and other prominent African photographers.

Inside the famous Africans compilation you can find endearing images of Nelson Mandela cheek-to-cheek with Charlize Theron, Alan Paton sitting in the Valley of a Thousand Hills, Hugh Masekela with a gleaming trumpet, William Kentridge getting his fingers dirty, Danie Craven giving that enigmatic smile, Nadine Gordimer at home.

African Faces showcases more generic portraits of peoples from all over the continent, both the traditional stereotypes and today’s more modern versions, Maasai warriors, Xhosa initiates, Bushmen, Himbas, Hindu temple dancers.

While some compilations highlight the scenic beauty and nature Africa is renowned for, others focus attention on the urban environment, with city skyline images or township views. If it’s action you’re looking for, African Adventure has all the colour and speed you could want: from duneboarding in Namibia, to climbing Kili, hiking the Drakensberg, whitewater rafting in Swaziland, quad-biking into the sunset.

Also included is African Cuisine, with its close ups of juicy South African fruit, dinner dishes and cakes, or take your pick of mopane worms, sheeps’ head smileys and the like. www.africanpictures.net/compilations. php?action=displaycompilations

Snap game

Noah Kalina photography Noah Kalina was born in Huntington, New York, on the north shore of Long Island, about an hour outside of New York City.

She went to college at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. We asked her a few questions about her love for photography.

How did you start out in photography?

I started taking pictures when I was a sophomore in High School, so I was probably around 16 or 17. There was a really amazing photography teacher at my High School who was incredibly encouraging.

I took three periods of photo classes my senior year and spent the majority of the school day in the darkroom. Most of my friends did the same thing. It was a great environment. Many of us have gone on to become professional photographers, illustartors, designers and artists.

What was your first camera?

I don’t really remember. I think it was a Minolta 35mm SLR. It certainly wasn’t special in any way. But it did the job.

Did you always know you wanted to be a photographer?

By the end of my senior year in High

School I knew I wanted to continue doing photography. So I decided to go to art school. I didn’t really know what being a photographer meant. I just had a feeling I was good enough at it to keep doing it.

Were your initial goals to make money from photography?

Not really. When you study photography, everybody likes to remind you that it is really hard to make a living doing it. I didn’t really care. I just knew I would eventually figure it out.

What do you consider your specialty and your favorite thing to shoot?

I am not sure I have a specialty. For about 3 years I shot mostly interior photographs, and that is how I made the majority of my money. So in a way and much to my dismay, that became my specialty. I am trying to move on from that work and seriously focus on different genres. These days I am trying to shoot mostly portraits, which includes the full range of subjects which includes friends, scientists, famous people and musicians. I have always been into shooting landscapes and self portraits

as well, so I continue to work on projects involving those themes.

What’s the best thing about taking photographs?

I would have to say my schedule. Often times I only have one or two jobs a week, so I am free to work on whatever it is that I want. I have an incredibly laid back and relaxing lifestyle.

Do you spend a lot of time retouching ? Is there a process you work from?

I must say that I really don’t think I am very good at photoshop. I only have a few techniques that I use. I can be happy with a photograph after 10 minutes of working on it. I don’t believe in over doing it in photoshop.

What’s your current camera?

I shoot mostly with a Canon 1DS Mark III. I do still shoot a lot of polaroids with my Mamiya 67. Lomography just sent me a Lomo LC-A to shoot with for a year and now I carry that with me everywhere I go as a point and shoot.

What photographers inspire you?

The list is long and I think it needs to be

broken down into genres. I like everything from contemporary art photography to high end fashion photography.

What photography books have you got on your shelf?

I collect photography books, and probably have close to a hundred books so it would be too hard and way to boring to name them all. But a sampling includes the likes of Andreas Gursky, Guy Bourdin, Joel Sternfeld, Larry Sultan, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Terry Richardson, Nadav Kander, Alec Soth, Massimo Vitali, Max Pam, Juergen Teller and Richard Kern.

Do you have any of your photography on a stock library?

I syndicate my music portraits with Retna.

I also have some work up on Veer, that I submitted to them after I graduated from The School of Visual Arts in New York years ago. Every now and then I get a small check from work I made almost 10 years ago. I should seriously consider submitting more work. I will add that to the list of things I need to do. www.noahkalina.com

The intriguing Corbis Snap game launched by Great Stock! is proving to be a resounding success amongst agency, design and publishing creatives, as it enters its fourth week.

“We’ve received rave reviews, congratulations and kudos from a wide spectrum of our client base - not only for our design work, but the ‘headspace’ that has gone behind the choice of prizes, and the game itself,” according to Great Stock! marketing manager Ina Britz.

Great Stock! feels that the success of the game confirms its standing amongst creatives who recognise a love of good design, and recognise the importance of a good sense of fun in their work.

Prizes awarded to date include oneoff or limited edition designer toys and accessories, as well as carefully selected rare DVD titles that are sure to appeal to creative professionals thirsty for creative sustenance and inspiration.

The SNAP game revolves around a specially-designed set of playing cards, and matching the image used with an image on the formidable Corbis site, with several million images considered highly relevant by creatives worldwide. Clues given for each round ensure that the quest for the matching image is not too taxing, and a lot of fun. www.greatstock.co.za/snap/index.asp

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Damon Hyland Cape Town photograper Damon Hyland grew up in Ballito, on the North Coast of Natal not far from Durban.

It’s a small town where as Damon describes “nothing really happens except for the surf.

There are very few places I’ve been where the surf is that consistent.” Damon Hyland started surfing at the age of ten and its through surfing, strange as it may seem that he developed an interest in photography.

“There was always someone taking pictures of surfing and seeing the places these guys travelled inspired me. Straight after school I did a quick business computing course

and headed off to London to work and fund my travels. That lead to a 4 year work and travel venture through America, Mexico, Europe, Australia, Indonesia and a couple other countries. I always had a camera with me and took loads of pics but never considered taking it up as a career until I moved back to Cape Town in the beginning of 2001.”

How did you get started in photography?

After moving to Cape Town I befriended local fashion photographer Jacques Weyers.

He took me under his wing and patiently

taught me everything he knew. Having never studied photography I knew nothing about camera settings, film and flash light all that stuff so it was difficult, but I was very keen and worked for free for a couple of months until he agreed to take me on as his assistant.

What challenges have you had to overcome as a South African photographer?

Very few, to be honest. I think the only thing is that I find South Africans to be very conservative in their ideas and more often than not their budgets are so small that it is

difficult to achieve the best results. So as a photographer you are quite limited, but that also depends on what area of photography you specialize in.

You seem to have quite a broad range of styles. What do you consider your specialty and your favorite thing to shoot?

Its difficult to specialize in one area here in South Africa There isn’t enough of a market to do just one thing so I try to cover as much as possible. My favourite is definitely dramatic conceptual work that could be used in a number of ways.

Do you spend more time lighting and setting up your shots?

I try to get the image as close to perfection while shooting as possible and really hate the term ‘lets fix it in post’. I heard a great quote the otherday, the guy said “Photoshop is either a finishing tool or a jack hammer”.

There are many pics out there that have been jack hammered.

What inspires you to take pictures?

By taking pictures I try and show people what I see through the lens. www.damonhyland.co.za

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MINGO LAMBERTI LAUNCH ELECTRIC RANGE Interview with Brad Hodgekiss

Hi Brad we interviewed you a few months ago before the Loeries, how are things going and what have you been up to?

Everything is going very well in the land Mingo Lamberti. Since Loeries I have been meeting new designers and getting them interested in what I am trying to do. I have been working on a couple new ranges for next year. I have also been in touch with local media trying to show them what Mingo is made of. It’s all coming along well.

The Far Far Away range was a big hit.

Theres not a week that goes by without seeing someone walking around with a Mingo. How will the new range do?

Mingo has started to pick up a lot of momentum since its start, which was about a year ago. The success of the Far Far Away range was a result of this momentum and the original, well crafted designs. I do believe

that Mingo has a small core following that will make the new range a success. After chatting to The Wardrobe in Durban, they tell me that they have a customer that wants to buy the whole new range without even having seen it. That’s special.

The new range is The Electric range, tell us about the concept behind it?

The Electric range is inspired by the electric moves of the new wave era. The designers focused on the 80’s new wave era and all that went with it from music to icons to typography. It resulted in a range that is different to the past Mingo ranges and will keep everyone guessing about what the next range will look like.

The style is so different from the Far Far Away range was that intended?

Definitely. One of my goals of Mingo is to stay away from creating a style that people recognize. The designs need to be original and don’t have to adhere to any rules.

Were the designers you chose very different to the previous designers?

Yes, I have used different designers for this range, except for one. I look for designers with a unique style that have something original to offer. Using different designers allows a Mingo t-shirt to continually evolve and make sure that something original is always created. It’s also the best part of my job, meeting new designers and working with them. I continue to look for new designers out there, so if you know anyone, let me know.

Do you think you will get the same people

buying from the new range that have from the old range?

I think there will be a mixture of new and old customers buying this range. I do think it will capture a slightly different audience as the designs are a little different to the past, but I don’t think it will turn any loyalists away. Having said that, I know I can’t please everyone with each range, but as long as I can please enough people, then I say that’s golden.

Where will the range be available, is it available nationwide?

Mingo is stocked in a couple stores dotted around the country. In Cape Town you can find Mingo at Astore, Lover and the Biscuit Mill. If you happen to be in PE, pop into Vovo Tello. Durban in the Wardrobe and in Joburg in Sowearto in the Zone and Campus Square. Online at www.parklife.co.za Is the entire range available in guys or girls tshirts?

The Electric range is just in men’s at this stage. I am still trying to understand what the ladies want in a t-shirt. The ladies nature range will be out for summer, which consists of three designs.

I think I remember you mentioning the next range is called the Death Range, is that still planned ?

Yes indeed. The Death range will be out next year. It’s inspired by what happens to us when we die or where we go when we die. Don’t expect any skulls and bones as it is a different take on death. www.mingolamberti.com

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DESIGN FOR OBAMA

David Choe

Nicholas Rocknroll

Ron English

Chaz Maviyane

James Widener

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DESIGNFOROBAMA I have no political affiliations, no opinions on who’s in the white house. I neither oppose nor support any political party. That having been said. Damn that Obama campaign knows what it’s doing! The President-elect has had an unprecedented amount of art and free publicity being generated by some very talented people on his behalf. by mark rosenberg

Larry Roibal

Shephard Fairey

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Jason Urban

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Some of the best stuff was actually commissioned by the campaign and includes works by the likes of David Choe, Ron English, Shepard Fairey and Larry Roibal to name but a few. I present to you what we, here at Designtimes, think to be the best of the hundreds of pieces of artwork created for the campaign.

The posters created for Obama’s campaign transcend mere political messages and touch on the iconic. One of the most interesting posters was made entirely of words, all issues central to the candidacy, Larry Roibal the creator of the words poster says “An ad agency working

on the Obama campaign called me a few weeks ago. They saw my drawings over words and my drawing with words posted here and asked if I would be interested in doing a drawing for a campaign poster. They wanted a portrait of Barack Obama made from a list of issues most important to the Senator written out to form the portrait. I employed this technique once before when I was so frustrated with the media coverage I thought it an appropriate way to show the subtext.”

Scott Hansen also known as Tycho, arguably one of the most prodigious poster artists today, was also comissioned by the campaign for a

Craftysquid

fundraising effort “The message of the print had to center around a handful of concepts that the campaign was using, Hope, Progress and Change. Shepard Fairey had already created two prints for the campaign that each featured an image of Obama so I knew I wanted to pursue another theme for the imagery. The fact that this was a fund raising poster and not intended as a campaign poster also made it easier to interpret the imagery more liberally. My initial idea was to metaphorically represent the core themes of the campaign in a collage, some more literally than others. I also wanted to vaguely communicate

the concept of peace by configuring the main elements into a somewhat subdued peace symbol and working off of that shape for the core structure of the image.”

Another piece, featured on the cover of this issue is created by a student James Widener also known as Snuffhouse. Widener is a graphic designer based in the United States. His work is a distorted vision of this natural world, influenced by fluid, nature and human interaction and emotion. James is currently finishing up design school in the United Sates and plans to get into the advertising industry this spring.

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Things you will love about Creative Suite 4 Eva Csernyanszky school director of Cape Town based creative training institution Friends of Design tells us what we will love about Creative Suite 4 Overall Frame concept and the Application Bar’s split screen views to enable easy integration between open files in an application. Its the Designer’s edition and Illustrator and Flash are the flagships, and boundaries between print and web and motion are blurring more with each new release. No longer do print designers have to boast web developer skills to produce rich media content for online use. I don’t want to take anything away from the web developers of course, but more designers can work more independently and produce the basics now and leave the tricky stuff up

feature without a doubt! Much needed, much loved already. And its more than easy to use! - The overall in context editing features, being able to change things on the fly. - Improved support for nested objects in Isolation mode. - A crazy new gradient tool with specific settings and handles for on the spot and accurate gradient control, reminds me a little of the Flash Transform Gradient tool. - The Blob brush, very Flash like and easy to use the add to the artwork of to objects with like fills.

Photoshop - Novices will love its new panels set up that demystifies adjustment

that make it the layout tool of choice for mocking up HTML sites with live run-time testing of rollover effects and navigation that can be tested in interactive PDF format and emailed to clients to proofing before evening writing a single line of CSS. Yes, I like that very much. Placeholder text, Flash. Wow. No more keyframes - who would have imagined a timeine in Flassh whithout these. Ease of tweening, an amazing Motion Editor for fine tune, enhance and manage complex tweening.

Adobe has gone all out to make this a designer’s dream to work with. Add particle systems to the project using the Deco Tool, connect images together using the Bone Tool and see automated inverse kinematics without a stitch of Actionscript.

Tween symbols, remove them from the stage and replace them with new symbols using the remaining animation path (hugely reminiscent to me of old Director splines..)

A huge timesaver and great for repeating animations consistently across a number of instances, you gotta use the new Motion presets panel to save animation paths as styles and reuse! Plus tap into the long list of existing Motion Presets and watch symbols dissolve into trailing smoke before your eyes. And of course, XFL support from InDesign and After Effects.

the propeller-heads.

Indesign - No longer offered as just a print layout tool but a true electronic publishing tool for interactive screen design as well as print output. Love the new ‘Live Preflight’ panel, its accessibility and the fact that one can fully customise the checking process it does, via editable user profiles, for specific errors be it a document destined for web or print. - Love the reorganisation of the Buttons/Hyperlinks and Behaviours panels of the Interactivity tools all into one intuitive palette. Totally streamlines the interactivity workflow to interactive PDF or e-Zines. -Export formats and integration with other programs. Love the fact that one can export to Flash Shockwave format directly from a native InDesign file and the much anticipated new Flash .XFL format, that allows integration powerful between Indesign and Flash in that one can export a complex layout with page transitions, hyperlinks and buttons using a format that Flash can open, yes O-P-E-N, directly and continue editing in Flash.

Illustrator - Multiple Artboards is my winner

layers and masking while pros will love the powerful new mask panel that allows one to refine selections using the colour range command on the fly. Beautiful zooming using the graphics card of the systems. My favourite feature at the moment, ContentAware Scaling. Watch Photoshop crunch landscape images into portrait and viceversa by diminishing pixels with low detail and protecting areas of the image with high detail without distorting. Of course, it has its limitations, and one can still protect skin tones and areas that stretch undesirably using easy alpha channel masking, but wow you gotta see this to believe it. Great new 3D features, for example being able to map artwork directly to the polygons of the 3D object, outside of the attached texture that is. Great stuff.

Fireworks. I’m sold! Not a huge user of Fireworks in the past, having always used Photoshop for my slicing-splicing needs when outputting from Photoshop to HTML/Dreamweaver, I must say Fireworks is a quiet little workhorse with many impressive drawing and editing tools

Dreamweaver. Live Code and Live View to watch your CSS and Javascript in real time without previewing in the browser, edit first-child documents like CSS files within Dreamweaver directly. My best features are the new Code Navigator whereby one has access directly to an object’s related styling code with a click of an alt and command key! (much like Mozilla’s Firebug browser plug-in!) and the new Smart Object integration Photoshop where one can import a Photoshop file directly, optimise it for web in an intermittent Save for Web and Devices-like window. Said optimised file is inserted as a Smart object which is totally editable from within Dreamweaver itself. Any changes made to the Photoshop file will update the optimised inserted smart object. And any changes within Dreamweaver can be set to override the optimised file or not. Intuitive icons appear on the smart object when synchronisation has been compromised from with side.

The verdict - go get it!

Eva Csernyanszky, school director www.friendsofdesign.net

Multiple artboards Adobe Illustrator CS4 now finally has multiple pages!

Officially referred to as Multiple Artboards one can create additional pages of varying sizes using the Artboard tool (Shift + O).

Resizing, deleting and moving artboards is dead easy too. For example, Alt + Drag from an existing artboard to duplicate it and position it where you want it. Even have the choice to duplicate any existing attached artwork in the process, or not, with the Move/Copy Artwork button on the tool’s options bar. Great! What’s more, you can create artboards with varied output sizes and output settings, all within the

same document. Commit to colour modes, file formats and resolutions of selected artboards on exporting only.

But, take note: Although there are multiple artboards, there is only one ruler which makes precise positioning across artboards difficult. Also, you can’t import a multiple page PDF to a single Illustrator document with multiple artboards. Both problems can, however, be sorted out with downloadable scripts from the net, so visit our website’s Tutorials & Tips page for the links to the scripts..

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Loeries annual The Loeries Annual is a stylish compilation showcasing the winners of The Loerie Awards. In addition, it features an index of winning brands, agencies, production companies and individual credits, making it the ultimate peer-reviewed handbook of the best companies and talent in the industry and a must-have for all marketers, designers and advertisers.

“The Loeries Annual is unique in that it represents an unbiased reference to the industry’s leading agencies, brands and individuals,” says Andrew Human, managing director of the Loeries. “There is no paid advertising and the only way to get published in the Annual is to win a Loerie, so every piece of work is there because of the creative excellence and insight shown by the people creating it.”

With the Loeries having celebrated their 30th anniversary this year, the 2008 Annual,

designed by Net#work BBDO, promises to be a bumper edition. It will close off the 2008 theme, “Make your mom proud”, taking on the appearance of a family photo album. It also comes with a DVD set featuring the TV, radio, experiential and digital winners.

“The Annual is the best reference to what’s going on in the industry as well as who’s doing what,” says Human. “It’s the ultimate guide to the best that the brand communication industry has to offer.”

The Loeries annual will be selling at the same price as last year R550 nothing to be sneezed at in these turbulent financial times and if you pre-order now you can take advantage of two great offers: A 10% discount R495, or at the normal price of R550, you receive a free copy of the 2007 annual and DVD set. www.theloerieawards.co.za

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ARCHITECTURE

Joinery Wood joinery is functional. In the past the joinery was all made by hand. For this it was kept relatively simple. With the present day machines it is possible to make these joints faster and more accurate.

Joinery made in this way is decorative as well as functional. With this in mind there were several ways to go. The idea lends itself for different options such as child furniture with the joinery being a story, a more technical approach where the joint itself is the instruction manual or a subtle visual joy where the joints are beautiful and functional. The result is a desk completely made with a CNC Router with the joints as the decorative element in it. The desk is designed to show the joinery and give it prominent place, it is an example of how this idea of joinery can be implemented in many different ways. Designed and manafactured by Nathan Wierink.

ZAHA HADIDS RECENT PROJECTS

We caught up with Zaha Hadid and had a look at some of her current projects.

The Chanel Pavilion shown right is a celebration of the iconic work of Chanel, unmistakeable for its smooth layering of exquisite details that together create an elegant, cohesive whole. The resulting structure is very much tied to that original inspiration, elegant, functional and versatile both in its overall structure and detail. The architectural structure of the Pavilion is a series of continuous arch shaped elements, with a courtyard in its central space. The glazed ceiling adjusts to allow for control of the interior temperature in response to the particular climate conditions of each venue city. Natural light descending from seven elements on the ceiling, meets artificial light pushed up from gap between the walls and raised floor to emphasize the “arched” structure, and assists in the creation of a new artificial landscape for art installations. Six of these elements are roof lights for artworks; another large opening dramatically floods the entrance in daylight to blur the relationship between interior and exterior. In addition to the lighting and colour effects, the spatial rhythm created by the seams of each segment gives strong perspective views throughout the interior.

The size of the Pavilion will be 29m x 45m, a total of 700sqm. The overall height is 6m, with the floor raised 1m above the

existing ground surface. In light of the extensive shipping between cities, each structural segment will be a maximum of 2,25m wide. The 65sqm central courtyard has large transparent openings to the sky above and is designed to host events as well as provide an area for reflection after visiting the exhibition. The courtyard serves as an intermediate space between the exhibition and a public area of the Pavilion. The steel structure can be built in under one week which is essential for an ephemeral pavilion. With a direct visual connection to the courtyard, the 128sqm terrace continues this dialogue between the Pavilion’s exterior and interior. During an event, the two spaces could be linked to become one large event zone. Reflective materials allow the exterior skin to be illuminated with varying colours which can be tailored to the differing programmes of special events in each city. The dichotomy between the powerful sculptural mass of the Chanel Pavilion’s structure and the lightness of its envelope create a bold and enigmatic element. The Pavilion’s exterior develops into a rich variety of interior spaces that maximize the potential to reuse and rethink space due to the innate flexibility of its plan. The total fluidity of the Chanel Pavilion’s curvilinear geometries is an obvious continuation of Hadid’s 30years of exploration and research into systems of continuous transformations and smooth transitions. With this repertoire of morphology, Zaha Hadid is able to translate the ephemeral typology of a pavilion into the sensual forms required for this celebration of Chanel’s cultural importance.

Zaha Hadid also collaborated with the Brazilian footwear company melissa known for their recyclable plastic fashion footwear, Zaha Hadid created a limited edition shoe. Zaha Hadid says: “I have 30 years of research on different areas of architecture and design and this was a very challenging project, not only in design, but on the technical side. There was great synergy; I worked very closely with melissa to transform my design into reality.”

Design challenge

Nampak and the Design Indaba invite all professional design studios, agencies and freelance designers to compete in the Nampak Packaging Design Challenge and be acknowledged for creativity in the area of packaging and graphic design.

Entrants in the professional category can either participate as a group, business or as an individual, while the student category will involve the winning packaging design students from the Institute of Packaging Soth Africa Student Goldpack Awards.

All you need to do is register in order to qualify. The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2009. Winners will be chosen and notified in February and the final exhibition of winning designs will take place at the Design Indaba Expo from February 27 to March 1, 2009, as well as being featured in the Design Indaba magazine. The first prize in the professional category is an Apple Macbook Pro and the second prize a Wacom tablet.

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The exhibition How the troubles started shows the work of Wilhelm Saayman and Lizza Littlewort, two artists whose renown in the contemporary art scene is based in dark humourous commentary conveyed through annotated drawings which stretch and wrench graphic language. Here, the two are brought together into one show for the first time, and from the outset the intense contrasts and similarities in their work set up a strong debate. The setting is the context of South Africa, around which they weave a dark shadowy mesh of tales.

Saayman’s work heads into the underbelly of the human condition, and is peopled with a rich population of sharply observed characters: the dodgy, the dangerous, as well as the guttingly human and despairingly personal. His highly evolved anti-art style places his work neck-andneck with the bleak and brilliant humour of British contemporaries like David Shrigley, and brings to his work the urgency and power usually only found in the drawings of children or the criminally insane. It is exciting, relentless stuff, charged with a

gleeful energy that makes for compulsive viewing. Littlewort’s work for this show forms a hilariously bleak comment on the predicament of contemporary art in South African society. To ‘get’ much of the content of contemporary art, its audience needs a level of knowledge about art that is simply not the norm in South Africa, leaving the “art world” cut adrift, in an absurd conversation with itself. The show centres around a picture book, Let’s buy some art for Christmas, in which Littlewort weaves a droll storyline from common platitudes about art. She interprets themes from the book through cartoonish paintings and painterly cartoons, providing a send-up of romanticized genius and a very concise crash course in Art Criticism 101.

The exhibition will also include the launch of two new limited edition publications by each artist, Lizza Littlewort’s Let’s buy some art for Christmas, and Willie Saayman’s Dark Pilgrim. Both publications will be available for purchase through the Whatiftheworld gallery. www.whatiftheworld.com

The Annual Advertising Conference

by Jeremy Maggs

City Varsity open day in Joburg on the 29th November

Join Jeremy Maggs for an insightful and hard-hitting morning conference as he attempts to find out where advertising, branding and design is heading in these uncertain economic times.

The line up includes, Public’s Perception on Advertising, SA’s first survey of its kind presented by TNS Research Surveys Neil Higgs. The Gunn Report, presented

by Emma Wilkie. Matthew Bull verses Steve Miller, a stroppy global creative director debates one of the contry’s leading marketers. Global Creativity, an exclusive interview with Bob Isherwood. The Sappi State of Design survey presented by Glenda Venn, chairperson of Think, The Communication Council of South Africa.

25 November 2008 at The Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town Cost: Std rate R1875; R1475 early bird & groups of 5 or more.

27 November 2008 The Wanderers Club, Johannesburg Cost: Std rate R1875; R1475 early bird & groups of 5 or more. marcia@netactive.co.za

City Varsity invites the public to their Open Day on the 29th of November to find out more about their courses and to nurture individual talent.

City Varsity is the leading school of media and creative arts in South Africa. Our most important aim is to nurture individual talent, creativity and excellence by providing the highest standard of practical and theoretical education.

City Varsity provides a unique learning environment that encourages collaborative creativity between departments. Students learn the craft and discipline of their chosen fields while collaborating closely with other creative disciplines. Professional practitioners from the media and creative arts industries help shape our curriculum, and experts are engaged as guest lecturers to pass on their invaluable industry experience directly to our students.

City Varsity offers a host of various courses you can have a look at their website. www.cityvarsity.co.za

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