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Cape Town’s “Behance Portfolio Review 2012″ hosted by Am I Collective

Countries, Events, Featured Projects, Illustration, South Africa

Behance is hosting their 2012 portfolio review in various cities and Cape Town’s hand picked choice by Behance to be...

South African Airways Arrivals

Animation, Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Motion Graphics, South Africa, Southern Africa

Digital studio, Maja Studio, were commissioned to create an inflight animation for South African Airways that would explain the arrivals...

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Gabon Space Elevator

Countries, Featured, Featured Projects, Gabon, Illustration

Space Elevator//Gabon is a project by illustrator Némo Tral. The project is an experimentation in illustration and architecture. Tral imagines...

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The Silent War

Countries, Design, Featured Projects, Illustration, Print Design, South Africa, Southern Africa

The Silent War is a social awareness campaign about rape in South Africa illustrated and designed by Greg Richards. As...

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Metcalf’s Popular Mechanics Edition

Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Print Design, South Africa, Southern Africa

South African designer Jordan Metcalf recently completed the 110th Anniversary Edition Cover of Popular Mechanics. I was asked by Popular...

Diamond Inside

Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Installation, South Africa, Southern Africa

Diamond Inside is a feature documentary of Spanish urban art coming to Cape Town. Boa Mistura is an art collective...

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Infinito

Countries, Featured, Featured Projects, Illustration, Installation, Western Sahara

Renowned Street artist M-E-S-A latest project can be seen in the deserts of Western Sahara. During his travels to a...

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Lost in the Fall

Branding, Countries, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, South Africa, Typography, UI and UX

Lost in the Fall is the latest project by designer Si Maclennan. The project is identity and cover art for...

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Everywhere in Chains

Congo, Countries, Egypt, Featured, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, Ivory Coast, Print Design, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia

Everyone in Chains is an incredible graphic design series of posters by Jonathan Schubert.  The poster series is inspired by...

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Illustrations by Mohammed Fathy

Countries, Egypt, Featured Artists, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration

Mohammed Fathy is a designer, illustrator and graphic designer from Cairo, Egypt. We love his character illustrations and style. Enjoy.

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Animals / Izalwanyana

Countries, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, South Africa

Animals / Izalwanyana is an illustrated children’s book by illustrator and designer Xanele. “The need to design this book arose...

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Looking for Transwonderland

Countries, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, Nigeria, Print Design

Take a look at the book cover illustration for the new novel, Looking for Transwonderland, by Noo Saro-Wiwa. Illustrator Rod...

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Mixel Typography

Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Nigeria, Typography

Mixel Typography is a hand made typeface by Senongo Akpem. The typeface was made with the new college app for...

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Closer look at Sindiso Nyoni [Video]

Featured, Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Illustration

  Sindiso Nyoni, also known as Riot, is a well known graphic designer/ illustrator from Zimbabwe. We have featured his...

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Aya de Yopougon

Animation, Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Ivory Coast

Aya de Youpougon is a critically acclaimed graphic novel series by Marguerite Abouet. Abouet was born in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire,...

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Illustrated

Bookshelf, Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Malawi, Resources

The Boy Who Harnnesed the Wind is a best selling book about the life of William Kamkwamba of Malawi who...

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UNISDR Calendar 2012

Countries, Egypt, Featured Projects, Illustration

A new project by Egyptian illustrator Shennawy. The calendar for UNISDR is a great example of design for social change.

Delicate Shades of Africa

Animation, Featured Projects, Illustration, Motion Graphics

VLISCO Delicate Shades was a recent ad campaign for fashion house Vlisco in collaboration with fashion illustrator Sabine Pieper. The campaign feature...

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David Osagie’s Occupy Nigeria

Illustration

A few weeks ago Nigeria joined the Occupy movement as Nigierian political leaders decided to go against reforms to distribute...

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Fetchro Season 2

Apparel, Graphic Design, Illustration, Vector

Fetchro Season 2 is the latest graphic design project by Nigerian digital artist Opabisi Oluwaseun. The latest project were concept...

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Moleskine Egypt

Countries, Egypt, Featured Projects, Illustration

An extraordinary project inspired by the Revolution in Egypt. Illustrations done by illustrator Rafael Bertone. Enjoy!

PASTE

Featured Projects, Illustration, Installation, Southern Africa

PASTE is a street art exhibition curated by Shani Judes of SJ ARTISTS and Between 10and5 . 18 local artists...

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Says Who

Countries, Featured Artists, Illustration, South Africa

Says Who is a small illustration and design studio based in Jo’burg. Each member of the team is endowed with a unique style and approach to their work. This gives the collective the ability to provide its clients with a broad range of creative executions. They draw inspiration from the bustling city that is their home, as well as from each other and all the artists, musicians and designers that they know and love.

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Ibeabuchi Ananaba

Featured Artists, Illustration, Nigeria

Ibeabuchi Ananaba is a Nigerian painter who begun his career as a fashion illustrator. Based in Lagos, Ibe received his formal education in painting. Ibe's work is influenced by his passion for nature and the human form and many of his illustration portray dynamic, colorful and rhythmic portraits.

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Illustrations by Dimitra Tzanos

Featured Projects, Illustration

Born and raised in Johannesburg, Dimitra Tzanos is a illustrator and designer currently living in Greece. Dimitra is passionate about drawing and shares her drawings, doodles and scribbles on her blog Dimi’s Stuff. Although her work is simple, it is playful, colorful and sophisticated.

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Interview: Cape Town Illustrator Emma Cook

Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, Interviews, South Africa

Emma Cook’s illustration work is both playful and imaginative, yet balances the thoughtfulness of great concept and restraint that you see in good design work. Getting to know her work and see it evolve over the past year has been exciting. Being well known in the design scene in Cape Town Emma freelancers under the moniker “make nice” and often gets commissioned by agencies and shops not just in South Africa, in London as well.

Visual Essays by Blink Tower [Video]

Countries, Featured Projects, Illustration, Motion Graphics, South Africa, Videos

Motion Graphics has its power play in taking narratives and making them visually stunning! Every once in a while visual...

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I Want your Munny

Branding, Countries, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, Packaging Design, South Africa

A few weeks ago African toy shop, Toitoy, unveiled ‘ I Want Your Munny’. The project included some big names...

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Revolution Egypt & Tunisia : Designers React

Countries, Egypt, Featured Projects, Graphic Design, Illustration, Print Design, Tunisia

North Africa is experiencing what is now called the biggest revolution in modern times as millions of protesters join in the fight against oppression, dictatorship and political domination. With that said, designers and artists are joining in protest and here is a small collection of some digital/graphic art. Please feel free to suggest some more we would love to see what you've found.

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Feature Artist: Joey Hi-Fi

Featured Artists, Graphic Design, Illustration, South Africa

Joey Hi-Fi – Dale Halvorsen got people’s attention a while back while moonlighting in South Africa. I noticed his work...