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The unconventionally cool mix of magazine meets lucky packet has been born and baptised Bruce Lee Magazine – an exciting new mixed-media magazine concept now available for rockers, grunge-lovers and jollers alike. DStv music channel MK89 recently launched issue number two of its new quarterly publication, auspiciously wrapped and ingeniously packed in a lucky packet! This brilliant idea – conceptualised by award-winning creator of The President, Peet Pienaar – has a fun mix of cool kicks for boys and girls (in Bruce and Lee respectively) ranging from stickers and cards to posters signed by top SA bands and guidelines on how to start your own. Hunter Kennedy, guitarist and lyricist for rocking Afrikaans band, Fokofpolisiekar, edits this issue. From the Design Issue ❤
Shopping for clothes in virtual shops isn’t scary. It’s fun, exciting, very convenient and can even be stylishly ethical.
Jo’burg-based Adriaan Hugo and Katy Taplin began designing a cardboard handbag range under the name DOKTER AND MISSES in 2004. Their first range was a celebration of pattern and primary colours, which they like to describe as ‘Bauhaus meets Dr Alban’.
All stitched up and definitely somewhere to go, young Ukrainian fashion designer Olesia Makhonko has emerged as one of the hottest new hands to watch on the international fashion block.
Take one sheet of paper plus a little inspiration from Gaudi and Ingrid Siliakus, paper architect extraordinaire, will transform it – with the patience and precision of a surgeon – into an ingenious three-dimensional paper wonder.
What makes a viral? What’s the difference between something that gets 100 views or 100 000 000 views? Jennifer Aniston has a thought about it in this ironic YTC for Smart Water that references some viral video phenoms (9 000 000 views) via @phr0ggi
Room 13 has been selected from a vast array of design submissions in a nationwide contest, asking designers to create a look for the Out In Africa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2011. Room 13 on winning: “Needles to say how happy and, well, gay we felt upon hearing that we had won”. The final designs, which include posters, booklets, online collateral and a cinema advert, will travel with the festival around the country. Have a look at this video …
The unconventionally cool mix of magazine meets lucky packet has been born and baptised Bruce Lee Magazine.
So you worked hard throughout varsity, worked while everyone slept, worked while everyone played. You graduated at the top of your class, did many internships and drank enough Red Bull and coffee to make a baby whale twitch.
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