on this day

dillon was born. well, not this one, but a few days and 21 years before this post. point is we had an daaa-liii-shus party at burnside's, tequila flowed like the ancient rivers, and numerous posters of dillon striking his swedish extreme sports calendar model pose.

happy birthday boytch. and thanks for the party.

word on the street

is that today is a good day. as loading bay would say. dill, kyle and myself all completed loyalty cards in 6 days. if you're in cape town go there. they have fried chicken in a bucket. and the best barista in the country. and jeffrey, the best guy ever. and, according to maria, an owner called jon-paul best described as "perfection".



aside from loading bay cape town was okay because i managed to bribe the loerie judges into awarding me a craft gold (pictured) for fortywords and a silver for that metro poster campaign. yay. who said corruption doesn't pay.

and just so you don't ask here's directions. no excuses.
click it to view large at flickr.

but then i was like...

so i thought i'd post something cool about portfolios and how they were going, so i started designing something appropriate for the post

that guy: the pitch

one three-part cinematic artpiece.
two foreign film audio tracks.
three new german names.
four loerie nominations.
five-star performances.
six days in cape town.
and an update seven weeks overdue...

...are the numerically-ordered set of facts that herald the long-awaited return to cinema advertising for the kholkhoz.

the final ad may or may not have been produced by now, but here's the pitch for the new ster-kinekor vision mission ad. in three parts. strat. storyboard. extension.

watch. they're fun. they're hd. and there's a solid minute of pug footage hidden in there too.





to avoid being confused by the initial english section of the next video, think in english again. and it might be worth explaining that all the people in our presentation weren't allowed in unless they received a 'that guy' or 'not that guy' sticker. the process was the same as we proposed it would be in actual cinemas. to get a 'not that guy' sticker you had to donate 2.50zar.


we'll stick the finished ad up as soon as it's done.

credit: debussy, clair de lune. the audio track from the lives of others. the german audio track from the unbearable lightness of being. danke.

and an extra special thanks goes to eleni labrou. she drew our storyboard. exactly as we had imagined it. in record time. in a coffee shop. and with the sweetest smile. thanks.

news of the world

news: there's a new david thorne article up here

dillon's restaurant, burnside's cafe in craighall, now has a website

and the sartorialist, jono cane's favourite website, "ever"
has a whole new look and feel (thanks to sarah for this one)...
click here

the first riposte

as effing relevant as ever.

thank eff i'm leaving vega forever in a few months.

bitter. yes.

thanks angie

here's my little sister, angie. i still owe her a birthday gift from 3 years ago so in lieu i've decided to make her world famous and feature her on the kholkhoz.



and this isn't one of my sweet pics. it might've been my aunt or mum took it.

incontinent

|inˈkäntənənt; -ˈkäntn-ənt|
adjective
1. having no or insufficient voluntary control over urination or defecation.

yeah, that's not what i was looking for at all

oh, god, this is the best website in the entire world. this guy should get a black pencil for it or something. go read it and live a better life.


click the image or hit here

thanks to indi for this one. go to her blog to show your appreciation. and i think you can play with fish too. perhaps.

i know all about the crimea

well i was gonna pop the pics i took for jesse's istd project up. but i see he's already put the whole lot up. anyway, since i've loaded them onto flickr (and bandwidth should never be wasted after all) here's a few other ones i took on the day/night.







the other shots i took are also on flickr, but you've probably seen them on the posters below so i won't bore you again here.

istd 2010

these were my typographic posters for this years istd, i know right? no typography but your smart kids im sure you can work it all out, if anyone needs an explanation let me know, oh and please click on the poster if you want to see it BIGGER and with a readable bunch of text for each one... (theres three more on flickr) they're really big so i had to scale down for the blog sorry. seriously though just click on them

199, 999

well. i hate my life.
but dillon's car did hit 200,000 km's the other day.

you've heard this before. in book for student d&ad.

i won an In Book award for student d&ad. yes, it has been mentioned before. but now i have something for you to look at.
no, not another pug. just the work this time. sorry to disappoint.

click to see the campaign at the d&ad site.

thanks to certain people for their invaluable help. raph, shelley, nick, shakera. thanks.

and a particular thank you to angie. my wee little sister. who ran all around london to print & mount, and then got lost delivering my work just in time for the deadline.
thank you.

in book but no cigar

well i didn't get one of those. but remember the last pug you got? when i finished d&ad? well, scroll some more and there'll be another. a celebratory pug, if you will. because although i didn't get a pencil, i did get In Book for that entry. which isn't too bad either. here it is from bizcommunity's mouth. (wedgethemong is chad for those of you not yet in the know)

i'll upload the work as soon as i'm allowed to. here's your pug.

don't laugh

oh, i wish i could to say that this was my contribution to south african politics, but it isn't. it was someone else's.