by Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal) This edition of Design Annotator includes:
RR Studio, a pattern lab focused on the new South African aesthetic
A glimpse into the daily life of master perfumer, Tammy Frazer
14 local creatives doing great work in pairs
Lucie de Moyencourt’s experience at the InAWE Residency
Film, photography and styling by the trio known as ‘Wild Spaghetti’
365 days in infrared photographs by Kate Davies
The current window design at Stable — ‘This Is Africa’
Reasons to enter the Sasol New Signatures Competition, and
Homegrown highlights from the 16th Encounters Documentary Festival.
Renée Rossouw Studio, a South African pattern lab
Renée Rossouw is a Cape Town-based architect working at SAOTA while running RR Studio, a South African pattern lab, as a side business.
The studio. which was founded in 2013, is dedicated to creating work for and in South Africa, focusing on the conception of a new SA aesthetic. The patterns that RR Studio creates are graphic and colourful, and are applied to a variety of mediums from wallpaper to ceramics.
Rossouw fills us in on her background, process and what’s next for RR Studio.
My Day Job: Tammy Frazer, perfumer at Frazer Parfum
Owned by master perfumer Tammy Frazer, Frazer Parfum is a perfume house in Cape Town specialising in handmade natural fragrances.
Frazer personally sources the raw materials for each of her perfumes, all of which are handmade by Frazer herself in her Rose Street factory. She moved into the factory about a year ago, where she recently opened a retail shop, too.
We paid a visit to the Frazer Parfum factory and retail shop to get a glimpse into a day in Frazer’s life as a perfumer.
Dream Teams! | 14 local creative duos
In the spirit of collaboration, we’ve taken a look at some local “dream teams” who are producing outstanding work in pairs.
Covering the fields of photography, fashion, design and illustration, take a look at 14 of our favourite South African creative duos.
Lucie de Moyencourt at the InAWE Residency
We’ve recently launched our InAWE Residency Programme, in collaboration with InAWE Stays, to celebrate the Mother City’s year as World Design Capital 2014. After Fort Rixon, the second of eight local creatives selected to participate was an architect by trade and artist by nature: Lucie de Moyencourt.
De Moyencourt’s hand-painted illustrations are inspired by the people and places she encounters, and so, during her InAWE Residency, she created a set of illustrations depicting the complicated, mysterious shapes of the rocks on Table Mountain.
Read more about De Moyencourt’s InAWE Residency.
Film, photography and styling with Wild Spaghetti
Wild Spaghetti is a Cape Town-based creative collaboration specialising in motion picture and photography. Originally comprising accomplished photographer and filmmaker Fiona MacPherson and young stylist and all round creative Art Mataruse, they’ve just added a new retouch artist to their team who goes by the name of James Fox.
Fresh from their latest project with Opulent Living Magazine, we caught up with the Wild Spaghetti trio to find out more about their work.
365 days in infrared photographs by Kate Davies
At the beginning of this year, Kate Davies began a 365 project with a twist, by deciding to shoot it entirely in infrared.
Nearly half way through, the project is a growing window into Davies’s life, and the images she has taken so far include intimate snapshots of people and places that are important to her. Although it’s a lot more emotional an experience than she ever would have imagined, hers primary aim is to keep each image honest.
Find out more about Davies’s 356 Days in Infrared project and see some of her images so far.
‘This Is Africa’ window design at Stable
Stable is a collaborative exhibition platform showcasing innovative SA design. ‘This Is Africa’, its current window design by DEEP, is a vibrant celebration of our continent and can be seen at its 65 Loop Street store.
See the rest of the window display and catch a few more things that have recently captured our attention in the latest Oh Wow! round up.
The Sasol New Signatures Competition
Entries for the annual Sasol New Signatures Competition are still open!
Not only is it the longest-running national art competition in SA, it is also the only major competition for new artists which provides an important opportunity for them to showcase their work for the first time.
The grand prize includes R60 000 and the opportunity of a solo exhibition. Find out how to enter this year’s Sasol New Signatures.
SA highlights at the 16th Encounters Documentary Festival
The 16th Encounters South African International Documentary Festival began on 5 June 2014 and runs until 15 June in Cape Town and Johannesburg.
This year’s lineup boasts five world premieres from top South African filmmakers: Behind The Lens, Crumbs — Toppling The Bread Cartel, Diaries of A Dissident Poet, Spring Queen and The Vula Connection.
While the festival shows important documentaries from around the globe, these are the South African highlights.
Design Annotator is a regular column on MarkLives featuring the top design work from South Africa’s biggest online creative showcase, Between 10 and 5, which is curated by publisher Uno de Waal (@Unodewaal), inaugural South African winner of the British Council South Africa‘s Young Creative Entrepreneur (#YCE) Digital Publishing Award in March 2014.
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