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The laughter that lurks in the deep of an image search

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The other day we needed an image of a shark-attack for an presentation. Shark attacks are one of Cape Town’s “landmarks”. It’s just incredible, what cruelties you find on the web!
 
Here for example, one of those monsters has half-way swallowed … Continue reading »

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“The Midnight Vinyl” on Designers.MX

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I was privileged enough to contribute a mix to Designers.MX, a website where some of the industries top designers design a album cover and mix which fuel their creativity when in the design process.
Go check this site out: http://designers.mx/
My mix … Continue reading »

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Shape Type, the letter shaping game

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Are you a design nerd and lover of typography? If so…then check out this addictive game I recently stumbled upon called “Shape Type, the letter shaping game”.
Designed by Method of Action. They focus on peer to peer education for people … Continue reading »

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WhatFont bookmarklet – quickly see the names of the fonts used on a webpage

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If you often find yourself searching through Firebug or Webkit Inspector to find out which fonts are used on web pages, consider installing the Whatfont bookmarklet. With this handy script by Chengyin Liu, you can simply roll over the text … Continue reading »

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The five biggest freaks in Africa get dressed up

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Afreaka recently approached us to design a logo for their company that they are starting up in Cape Town. They specialize in creating unique dress-up costumes that are themed to the big five.

The Logo consists of a simplified image of … Continue reading »

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Adobe Muse Beta

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In the wake of Adobe Edge, I’ve checked out another beta offering from Adobe, this time Muse (code name).
The aim of this product is to “create websites as easily as you create layouts for print. You can design and publish … Continue reading »

                Web Development

Reinforcement for our design / illustration corner x two!

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We welcome Richard Moir to our team, a 22 year old ginger to add even more colour to GSDH.  To give you a little background on Richard, he was born in a small town called Swellendam in the Western Cape. … Continue reading »

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Strange mineral discovered in South Africa

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Yesterday GSDH South Africa struck gold reported a fabulous and very rare mineral-find usually to be seen in good old Bavaria only. “The Munich Show” (Mineralientage), also famous for being Europe’s most important trade show for beautiful stones for both … Continue reading »

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Ordinary made awesome

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I stumbled upon this UK based design company called We Play God that have come up with the coolest solutions for every day products i.e. USB sticks, USB hub’s, multi plugs etc to make boring ugly objects more fun.
I think … Continue reading »

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