component designs

after 32 hours of staying awake and Corel draw freaking out and crashing and spending nearly 6 hours wrapping cassette ribbon - i have component designs.... now just to confirm with joiner and manufacture the chair. wola!... here are some layouts of what i presented today. Had good response to the light and the wrapping of the cassette ribbon and had a good idea to spray the final light with "art glue" to keep the ribbon in place - as its SLIPPERY!!!

im going deeper underground

Hi all... so had a theory breakthrough on how i can "get deeper". Im now researching Graffiti, African pop art and retro and street style... and believe it or not - they all share the same theory... EXPRESSION!! so watch the library shelves for the book to hit the shelf in 2011! ha ha.. im also throwing in " drum and bass" YES believe it! im focusing on what the sub-culture and youth are doing now, 2010.. HOW WHERE and WHAT and the bottom line is they are EXPRESSING themselves. <<<>>>
so off to another drum and bass party this Friday, going to be brave enough to take a camera along and show you the world of music and dance thumping through your veins. .. as they say on the dance floor - "it feeds your soul"

I am going to give this thesis a dose of bass... who says that we cant?!

here are some new conceptual developments for the Logo and typeface of the name. Today in class there was a progression as a typeface was chosen with an idea of a logo. also what has been finalized are the component designs. looks like there will be 4
1. the unplugged light
2. the fast forward light
3. the play chair
4. the (LEGO) Wobbly stool....ill post images up when details have been finalized, in the meantime please feel free to comment on the logo development!! :)

waka waka in the city

here are some photographs that i took during the Fifa Soccer world cup... these photos represent Port Elizabeth in a time of "togtherness" ... waka waka :)

type type type...

So as the final drafts for the thesis are being submitted, here is a sneak preview of the layouts of the design chapter...

there's more...

here are some more presentation posters from midyear...

getting tangled

time seems to be getting less and less, like a trogen virus is eating away at the number of hours in the day! so... in so little time, with so much still to do, I find it has a strangling effect on me... hence "getting tangled" decisions - decisions - specifications need to be finalized! But as any designer would say... "one can never completely solve a design idea, there will always be something more to add, change and edit.







Here was the proposed conceptual design that i presented mid-year... not much has changed from layout and circulation... only the finer details and material application. since June, i have transform the 7th floor, the attic, into a Roof Top terrace garden, hence allowing even sunlight in through the multi-volume atrium and creating an interaction with the skyline within the city center.