information generation

Considering that I posted last weeks made by me-monday blog on a Tuesday, and that today's title is not made by me, you would probably think I don't know how to look at a calendar. But in all honesty as fun as it is updating the made by me's because it gives me a chance too look back on work I have packed away, I have just had a 'oh let me blog about it moment' and decided to run with it.

I have recently started admitting to people that I have a very bad 'rainmain-ish' habit. I don't know what it is or when it started, and in all honesty it scared me at first and then I just realised it must be one of my quirks, because everyone I have spoken to about it (including the magiKal-psychologist) tells me they do not have the same problem as me. They proceed to give me a very funny look afterwards. What I mean by 'rainman-ish' is directly taken from the movie starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, you will remember Dustin Hoffman played the role of Tom's older autistic savant mumbling brother. Well since this isn't a movie blog I will get straight to the point. I count. I count everything. If I am walking up or down stairs, I count the stairs. If I am out jogging, I count my steps. When out driving I take note of number plates (so not only are the numbers in my damn head they are also all around me) I will see a number plate and it will stick in my mind, and then I see the number plate again and I realise "hey I know that numberplate. How you doing car 46440". It's like this little itty bitty sick fascination with numbers. I move them around in my mind so that they make more sense and be remembered. Like my security code to get into the gate at home...lets say it is 2702, I don't see it as 2702. I see it as 27 February. I seriously just thought everyone did this! Now I'm not bragging about this special talent of mine, or saying I am special or a savant. If anything I can almost hear my sisters laughter over the phone when she calls after reading this update (or her shock at not realising how special I am indeed). I am the first to admit I don't even like numbers! Who fails accounting in the first week they teach it to you in highschool? It takes me 3 times longer to figure out mathematical equations than my 13yr old nephew, actually I think by this stage he has surpassed me by more than a longshot. But, yet these damn numbers haunt me. I opened up a magazine article last week that was saying how an average person has to walk something like 8000 steps to burn their average intake of food -obviously the only thing that stuck out at me was the 8000 odd steps. I even attempted to see how many steps I take but then realised I only count every second step of mine and when I get to 100 I automatically seem to revert back to 1, and I do tend to get side-tracked by a song that then enters my head, or a non-related number thought, and well-yeah I still haven't managed to count all my steps. Phone numbers are the worst, I see a phone number and then I think to myself-oh its like my phone number but just replace the 3 with the 5 and the 9 with the 1 and swop the two last digits around.

Considering that I have now opened a full can of worms here, I will tell you what made me want to have this 'oprah-style' sharing moment with you. I finally just figured out I can see the stats on my blog. It's fun. I now know how many times my blog is being read (616) and this does not include me checking it. Which country my 'reader' is in (1: South Africa, 2: United Kingdom, 3:USA....) What platform (for non-technical speakers this just means with what type of device) is being used. I have started feeling like I am on Wall Street with how often I just need to check the numbers. Has readership increased/decreased. Should I sell(update)/buy(not bother). And each time I see an increase I feel a little bit of joy, because I then realise it is not JUST my family reading my blog and I shall therefore keep selling. 

19.09.11

I took a class in my varsity days that was called "Information Design". We basically were set challenges to design/arrange information in such a way that it was pleasing to look at, as well as being informative and getting the message across. By keeping a concept of what information needs to be conveyed by making it pleasant to look at, one's eye and memory click together and 'take a picture' that lasts them longer. Looking at facts and figures in a different way we tend to then remember them better than having them all layed out in front of us excel sheet style. This is how I work. I am more of a visual person when it comes to itty bitty information. If there isn't a pretty picture in front of me I conjure one up in my head. But looking at information layed out (such as the stats on my blog) excites me, and makes things a bit more real. Below I have posted some images of beautiful layed out information design. It's filtering into our lives more often now hidden in beautiful layouts!

http://myhome.spu.edu/kgz/4207/eyecandy.html

http://designingforinteraction.wordpress.com

http://mootee.typepad.com

http://www.stephengates.com

http://www.uwdesign2010.com

By the way did you know me has got 2 letters in it. When ME are together those are my fathers initials. When reversed and EM are together those are my mother...and my brothers initials! I'm just a double MM. I think I have just realised it's not only numbers that are haunting me...have a great week everyone, and count your blessings! 

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me


update: the sister mentioned above eventually read the blog and genes seem to be a lot stronger and wierder in my family than just how alike we all look...my sister happens to have the same number issues as me.Thanks to the wonders of opening myself and my savant-ish like issues up we have eventually revealed this oddity to each other. I shall now look into this matter further and see if the brand of wine we drink has anything to do with it!

made by me

I realise I'm a day late...but better late than never!

Sometimes there comes a time when as a designer I have been faced with a challenge. Where I sit back and have many images flashing through my mind. Images that have been stored and photographed in my memory that are from design magazines, blogs, my surroundings, my life. I like a challenge, I like sitting there thinking of how to put what has been asked of me together. How to create it and make it unique. How to add personality and spunk and a touch of me as well as a touch of my client into the job. My challenge was the following-create a wedding invite (easy peasy) but use skulls! 

I happen to have had a stage in my life where I too was a very big fan of skulls. Not in the horrible death type of style, but in the way that something that has always been associated with death/tradgedy/a symbol of 'fear' can be presented sometimes in a very beautiful way. During this stage (and admittedly I do still somewhat have a tad fetish for them) everything that had a skull on it landed up being purchased by me or given to me as a gift from friends. Jewl encrusted skull keychains, skull t-shirts, skull rings etc etc. So when Ashleigh came into my studio and we started talking about her wedding invites, I wasn't put off by the fact that she wanted skulls on her wedding invite. I understood her, and like I said-I like a challenge. Ashleigh and Gren's words were the following: Vintage, quirky, modern with a twist of retro and..skulls!

Ashleigh & Gren design moodboard 2010 copyright me.design.studio

The designs started out without a set format of what the final invite would look like. Because they are both into music, design and fashion, I had originally started off with an idea of the invite being a poster.

Ashleigh & Gren design stage1 2010 copyright me.design.studio

While sitting down with Ash and going through my own design samples, she loved the idea of the booklet (as done for Liesl & Pete) so that is the format we landed up going with. The quirky-ness came about where at the back of the book we had the 'synopsis' of their relationship, the skulls were presented in a very soft manner by creating them into the heart shape, and the colours completed the whole look by  adding that delicate vintage aesthetic. 

Ashleigh & Gren design cover/back cover  2010 copyright me.design.studio

Gren met Ash in 2004. He was a DJ. She organised events. They became friends and started working together. He taught her how to DJ. He played House. She played Hip Hop. She loved fashion. He wore earrings. They spent all of their time together. They fell in love. They started businesses together. 6 years later he asked her to marry him. She said yes.

 

More personal touches came about and for all of the hand delivered invites, personalized badges were made. Working with a variety of fonts and focusing on the typography for this invite was a bonus for me as I love typography. And those skulls....they're not scary at all now are they!

* Ash & Gren...thank you for the challenge! I am constantly using your invite as an example to future clients of how anything they want is possible! wishing you both lots of happiness in your marriage. 

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me

made by me

Everything has a beginning. Everyone has a start or a spark that starts their beginning, and no I am not about to give a 'how you were made' life lesson here. I'm about to go back in time, to the beginning of me.design.studio's wedding invitation design beginning. Because, no graphic designer (that I know of) wakes up and says-I want to design wedding cards for people. It just sort of happens along the way and this was how it happened for me. 

A good friend of mine was getting married. That's it, thats my story. He asked, she said yes, and I figured out a great way to give a very personalised engagement gift was to offer my services of helping with the full wedding stationary. And what a full stationary set it was. This was pre-'give me five words to sum up what you want your wedding to look like' stage that is now stage1 requirement with all brides. All I knew was the future bride (FB) wanted a wedding card that did not look too weddingy. I guess looking back on the design, thinking about our many hours together in front of the computer screen (FB was very involved as she has a great eye for all things beautiful herself) I can sum up her words as these, rustic, personalised, earthy and unique. 

Almost 2years ago to the day my good friend 'miss-fantastic-shoes' came into my then office with a pack of cigs for me, a pack of cigs for her, a Red Hot Chili Peppers cd and if I remember correctly, dog treats for our brother dogs. We started on her invite 'look' and by the time we each finished our boxes of cigs, we had a rough skeleton idea of what her invite would look like, what format it would take, and how the rest of the wedding stationary would take shape. What proved to be not only a fantastic cd, also happened to be the 'glue' that tied all the wedding bits and pieces together. In the invitation there was a quote from a RHCP song "Hard to concentrate", the dancefloor at the wedding was vinyl'd with the same quote, and the happy couple also danced along to this song as their first dance as man and wife. Needless to say... the Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the ultimate favourites. 

Aimee & Marco Invite design copyright me.design.studio 2009

The wedding invite itself was 3 seperate cards, all printed on recycled cardstock, and slipped into a self contained envelope. 'miss-fantastic-shoes' has a very creative mother who actually made the little hearts that tied around the invites and these were also used on the day of the wedding as extra design accents. 

Vinyl got itself everywhere into this wedding, from the above mentioned dance floor, to the 5 life size chandelier illustrations that were in various shades of grey to look like shadows cast against the wall to the seating chart 'carpet'. Guests had an interactive time searching for their names on the vinyl'd carpet which flowed from the courtyard into the reception hall. It has been a 'landmark' wedding for me because to this day I still have people coming to me asking me to design their guestlist seating chart 'carpets' as well as dance floor vinyls and wall vinyls in various themes to match their weddings style. 

This wedding could not have been complete without 'miss-fantastic-shoes' who is the type of friend who is always giving, gave to her guests wonderful gifts of 'slip-slops' (party shoes for party feet) wooden fans (thank you to all our fans) as well as-a cd mix of the bride and grooms favourite songs, and the cd actually looked like a mini record (vinyl much!)

The wedding itself was beautiful. Actually more than beautiful, and I not only say that as a friend, designer or guest but because it did set a landmark for all other weddings I have worked on as well as for all other FB's out there. Even though the Aleit wedding team, was involved, this bride with the fantastic design eye, was just as involved with every aspect of her (and the grooms) big day. I am currently working on their wedding album (its never too late) and am constantly reminded by how gorgeous all the details, as well as the bride were!

* Mrs & Mr Fantastic shoes, may you have an AMAZING time at the RHCP concert in London later this year!

* This is a disclaimer to say- me.design.studio does not promote smoking! just cos I have to work with a pack of cigs doesnt mean you have to.

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me

made by me

Every design has to start somewhere. I have these FB's (future brides) who come to me with their wedding tid-bit collection albums and this is generally where we start from. There are pictures of colours, of cakes, of decor...dresses...everything that has caught the FB's attention makes it into her little collection of images and she therefore brings it along with her to our first meeting. We sit and discuss the look and feel of the wedding day that she envisions in her mind, we talk about her 5 words and where and how they have influenced the style she wants to go with, and we go through my library of images where I sit back and see what her reaction is to a folder full of images that I have set aside for our first meeting. I pick up on the little 'ooh's' and the 'aah's' and trust me there are even quite a few 'eeews' thrown in there that I take note of. 

For this particular invite, Tina came to me with an image of an invite that she had in her album. This is what she wanted, and then when we started going through the albums, a different vision filled her head and she let me in on the fact that her fiance, Drew, is a keen cyclist. Inspiration hit, and I opened up another folder of illustrations that I have in a collection and we started looking at vintage bicycle illustrations. Along with her words rustic, vintage, timeless and elegance and her colours apple green, black and white, this is where the bicycle inspiration took over and a much more personalised invitation was created.

Tina & Drew Moodboard (copyright Me Design Studio 2011)

Tina & Drew Stage 1 Designs (copyright Me Design Studio 2011)

Stage 2 Design - refinement (copyright Me Design Studio 2011)

By Stage2 a set look was already established. The illustration style was chosen and minor refinements on type was taking place. The format of the invitation was also established, there would be 2 A5 size cards with the information and map to the venue. Brainwave idea's come along as I am designing, and I had the bride and groom send me side profile pictures of themselves. I re-illustrated the illustration so that it was them on the bicycle. A nice personal ingenious touch-if I may say so myself.

Stationary extra's. Thank you card series, order of service and menu. (copyright Me Design Studio 2011

The whole process of designing the invite was pleasant, and also set the standard for what the rest of their wedding stationary would look like. Menu's, order of service, table seating numbers as well as table seating cards and thank you cards were designed and carried through with the same style. A wedding invitation is therefore NOT just a wedding invitation, but it is the start of what the guests full experience will entail up until the end of the wedding.  

* Tina & Drew, it was great meeting you both. I enjoyed working on your full stationary set and smile each time I look at them, especially knowing how happy you both were with the end results. 

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me

today i was inspired by...

There is a quote in one of the compartments in my head since my art history class days back at varsity that I recalled today.  "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see".- Edgar Degas
Today I saw colours. I woke up just as the sun was rising, very unbelievable, yet true. Walked into the kitchen in my half dazed state to turn my friend the kettle on and get my other friend coffee into me very quickly, and while I was slumped over the kitchen counter attempting to not fall asleep my eyes caught the view outside. Its not yet summer, we are reminded of that in the evenings here in Cape Town. But it is getting lighter earlier these days and I caught the beautiful pink hue's of morning light sweeping across the neighbourhood. I grabbed my camera and attempted a pic, or two, but my camera also acts as my phone more than it does my camera, because my real camera was sleeping due to flat batteries(and the cold!) 


It seemed as if colour followed me the whole day though as my fellow design friend (i shall refer to him as the-guru) introduced me to a wonderful blog that he follows. And THIS...was my day's inspiration. www.kristinaklarin.blogspot.com

To see colour is to smile for me. To see many different colours placed with each other in such an aesthetically pleasing manner actually makes me show teeth when I smile! I have been too excited about this new blog to have much of a chance to do my research about who she is, what she does and 'get to know her' but I do know that very soon when there is more than a spare moment in the day, I will be drowning myself in this website and catching up on all her previous bloggings. Kristina's use of photography - and colour, makes me see many things and is one very inspirational 'look-see' into her world of colour. ps-she makes all those necklaces too!

(...Kristina if you happen to read this, please update your about page-or mail me back :) I would love to know where in the world you are with all these beautiful inspiring settings)

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me

made by me

I have mentioned before that I create quite a few wedding invites. I enjoy this direction of design as each Future Bride (aka FB) who comes to me has such a unique idea in her head of what she wants for her wedding day to look like and feel like. Sometimes this vision has been with FB since she was a little girl,  or from when she attended a friends wedding and decided on all the things she would never want happening at her own wedding. My job is a simple one, to create and help expand on the vision that is in FB's head into a reality. I always start off with asking FB to give me 5 words to sum up the look/feel/style of the vision she has in her head. From there I create a moodboard, just so that we are both visually on the same page, because purple to you means purple, but purple to me means lilac, violet, mulberry, lavender and a whole lot more! 

It was about a year ago this time that I started working on Liesl & Pete's invites. Liesl's words were, whimsical, gatsby, colourful, fun and rustic. Besides for these words there wasn't a clear indication of where the invite design would start from. All Liesl brought me was a single quote that she wanted incorporated into the design. 

Liesl & Pete Moodboard (copyright Me Design Studio 2010)

Stage 1 Design - incorporates wording from moodboard

At our first meeting, a single image stood out and became one of the options that I presented to her in Stage 1 design.

Stage 2 Design - refinement

What started out as a flat double sided invite, became a unique booklet, with library card insert (that held further information about the wedding) they even got their own personalised barcode at the back of the book. Hand-delivered invites got personalised with each persons name-tag, and each postal invite had the recipients name and address printed on. 

Stage 3 - Final digital invite design

Final Invite, printed and ready for delivery!

Working on this invite I realised one thing that I wanted me.design.studio to strive for, and that is to create beautiful, unique and inspiring invitations. To push the boundaries slightly away from the conventional white, scripty font invitations that have dominated the wedding industry for so many years. And most important of all, to incorporate the bride and groom into the whole process, for their 'stamp' to be visible, because at the end of the day, it is not my invite, it is their invite and they have to be happy when they send them off to each of their guests. 

In the span of 1 year, me.design.studio has created over a dozen unique personalized wedding invitations. I can't wait to share them all over the next up-coming made by me mondays! Many exciting things are continually happening in-studio, and soon there will be a 'ready-made' collection for future brides (and grooms) which will still have a touch of uniqueness but pre-set look to the design. 

* Liesl & Pete, thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to create your invite, I had a great time capturing your idea's and creating them into the final product. And...thank you for becoming such good friends too!

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me

the REsurrection diaries

*korres products are amazing! - *kayak ice-cream, its pure magic - *aztec style scarf image from thisnext - *aztec inspired dress image from mifashionblog.com - *image of feathers from superstock.com

In Greece one will often hear a person (generally a male) call another (male) by a short word - 're'. It is slang and literally means - you.  ie "Ti kanies re" translates to "What you doing" and "Re malaka" translates to "you -dot dot dot" and if you don't know what malaka means, ask one of your moussaka eating Greek buddies to explain it! 

Re. It is a word that sits on my mind as those two short letters have so much meaning even if it is in another context or language. This is the recap of my short term sabbatical that I was recently on. I renewed not only my love for the Mediterranean but for my own personal spirit.  I revisited places, in my mind and physically, pushing those little boundaries. I re-energized my batteries (by solar power) and I re-evaluated many aspects of my life as well as my blogs life.

To the untrained eye it would seem that I was just lying there, on a beach lounger, dipping my toes in the turquoise clear ocean while sipping on a frappe cocktail and staring at the 'view', that I was in true holiday non thinking mode. But that is not so. Beneath my Tom Ford aviators my mind was in a whirlwind of decision factors regarding what exactly my next blog write-up would be about. Would it be in the blogs best interest for me to comment on the various fashion factors taking the Greek isles by storm this summer season? Do I mention how aztec patterns have influenced their way in and are creeping into textiles and fabrics? This trend was even brought through with the use of american red-indian style feathers and beading on flat sandals. Do I pass comment on how it seemed like the Gods truly knew what they were thinking when they brought the wedge/platform heel back into fashion. It's as if they were smiling down on me and lending me a helping hand for walking down those cobbled streets (if they wanted to be laughing down on me they would have chosen stilettos!) And just because I have a slight fetish with shoes doesn't mean that is the only thing I was looking at from a design perspective. 

The interior design of many of the authentic restaurants, better known as tavernas, seems to also have come a long way. In the past I recall it was the higher priced places that felt to be authentic didn't mean having to have the cookie cutter postcard style image. They actually attempted using a different shades of blue, green or red to the normal taverna style and obviously their extremist take on what is typically Greek has now filtered through to the average priced establishments. In my opinion it seems like an even more authentic look has therefore been achieved. As if those restauranteurs called up their grandmothers and asked for crochet curtains. Walked into a paint store and took the daring chance of going with a different hue of blue. Or went up to their remote mountainous village and filled their car with hand painted pot-plants filled with the most pleasant smelling basil/thyme/mint and then placed those strategically around their restaurants. The glorious food coming out of greek kitchens these days could rival the 'invention' tests sprung on contestants in a Master Chef programme! Vegetarian dishes have always been in greek households, but now many secrets are finding their way onto menus. Meatballs (keftedes)? Soooo 2009! How about a tomato ball (tomatakeftedes) or zucchini ball (kolokithokeftedes)? - it sounds so wrong translating these beautiful greek tongue twister words into english! Spinach pie (spanakopita) or cheesepie (tyropita)? Hell no! Try a Paros style mushroom pie (manitaropita). Trust me, I did try and even got looked at strangely the following day by the waiter when I went back to the exact same restaurant and ordered the exact same items as the evening before! There's even a new take on the traditional gyros at some places as they add rocket and lettuce! I don't know if this is due to the economic crisis hitting their shores at the moment, but at first glance I was not liking it, until I took a crunchy bite, then it all made sense! And for heavens sake, if you are ever in Greece, hunt down Kayak ice cream! Jasmine, ginger and lemon all infused together as a single mouthwatering and very asian inspired flavour. Mastixa (gum mastic-google it!) flavoured ice-cream...not my favourite flavour but they have done it right and it is a completely greek inspired flavour! And no, I didn't just eat and eat! Well...not that much anyways.

I'm not a food blogger. I'm not a fashion blogger either. I am a designer who is influenced and absorbs my surroundings like a sponge. And then I blog about it. I don't have a set style that I can define and pinpoint as my own. Instead I am like a chameleon and I enjoy changing my colours because it's those many items in my daily living that inspire me. That is what I realised on my vacation. The stressing and worrying about where I will find ONLY design related inspiration from to blog about was around me the whole time!

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me

summer retreat

shoes from H&M

me.design.studio has taken advantage of the perfect weather conditions in the northern hemisphere and will currently only be available very sporadically. This is in no way due to the fact that I am sunning/partying/relaxing it up but mainly because a 3g internet connection is not as freely available as I was under the impression it would be. I will be updating as often as possible with fun new and exciting items I find out this way in the land of blue sea's, fishbowls and sun!

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me

made by me

So to keep a flow of idea's constantly flowing, I have decided to add in various 'day fillers' such as this one. Have to admit I thought of it only yesterday though (which-yes I know was Monday) while out 'browsing' at the local mall, I happened to stumble on a fantastic design at Foschini's. Of course what made it even more fantastic was a) the element of suprise at seeing these gift boxes in store b) knowing that I designed them! c) seeing 3monthes of hard work pay off and d) seeing the first mass produced item I have designed since free-lancing standing on REAL shelves (and my bookshelf doesn't count!).  

Foschini's became a client of mine through doing work for a friends wedding stationary (her bridesmaid passed my portfolio on) - and these fragrance gift boxes were the first two jobs I have done for them. I have also designed the current Father's Day mailer and ad campaigns for them which is the first time that Foschini's have come out with a Father's Day booklet for fragrance and jewellery! SO that was another major notch in the belt for me.design.studio!   
* am still waiting to receive the printed work for the ads and booklet and will upload once I have them in my possession. 
* many thanks must go to barry michaels -bmfa (finished artwork) for all his great work and idea bouncing on this job - and to jp gouws (re-touching) & emielke (photography)

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me

Step 2

I am quite sure if I went out tomorrow and browsed around the book-store I would come across a book titled 'The dummies guide to: Starting your own blog' and be very tempted into buying it! Except, I know myself, and how I go about doing things tends to be a 'try / fail / succeed and try again' sort of method. It's worked for 29 30 years so far, and I am kind of getting the hang of it by now. It feels like I started full steam ahead with my first blog write-up, even though it took me about an hour to figure out what the hell to write for the first time-it's very nerve-racking I can tell you that-to figure out what to write about for the next time. So I guess I'll just wing it and try explain in as little words as possible what my aim is about for creating this blog, what content will be in the blog, and what the blog I am about! 

me.design.studio for me is an outlet where I can journal the daily/weekly runnings of what is going on in my little world. This is going to be the place where if I find something inspiring/humorous/pretty etc I will share it. This is the space where I will be updating what I am working on at the moment, sharing that little bit of ME with you and maybe just maybe if I have had a bad day this is where I will be venting! 

Today was a good day design wise, (I will be sharing very soon a new exciting digital save.the.date I am working on for a client) I got my work done, I got to be very adventurous in the kitchen (steamed salmon with a helluva lot of garlic and ginger, topped with onions is yummy!) and I got to be creative with 'helping' my niece complete her Grade 3 art project. Making a car out of recycled rubbish is not easy, making a car that has to have a square, triangle, rectangle, circle and cone shapes added to the challenge. I will admit though-that when I pointed out to my niece that it looked 'more like a duck than a truck' I wasn't just saying it to get a giggle out of her. At least the duck/truck didn't have to have rotating wheels-otherwise I will have some major explaining to do to the Grade 3 teacher as to why my the project information sheet wasn't read correctly. 

So, anyways. No clue how to end this thing off, its like those telephone conversations when neither one of you wants to hang up and you each keep saying- 'bye, now you put down the phone' and the other one says 'no no you put it down first' and this goes on for about 5 or so minutes until you realise you're talking to a tele-marketer and you really don't want or need what they're selling!

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me

new beginnings

Getting out of bed mid winter is generally not a pleasant experience. Getting out of bed mid winter, with no electricity and a flooded kitchen due to the leaking ceiling (which was fixed last week) is beyond unpleasant. But...I got up. Without any caffeine in my system and about 3 extra layers of sweaters to keep me warm I headed out to get items for breakfast. Stopping along the way to run a very long overdue errand of re-licensing my car (just you try fine me again you sea-point traffic molesters). It was a quick experience, fill out the green form, hand over a stupid amount of money and voila! done! The good thing that came out of it - was the little printed piece of paper with yellowing edges prestik-ed to the wall behind the woman who helped me at the re-licensing thingy place. It made so much sense to me...and gave me a little push to start

So here is my start to a blog that I have been putting off for the longest time, thinking I didn't have enough time to start it. I don't know what will come of this, what I do know, is it's going to be a little journal style page put out there to the world regarding my life, which is basically my design.


me.design.studio doesn't have a set studio at the moment. Basically it's just floating around the Western Cape. I started focusing on the studio more in August 2010, and when I think of where I have come up until now, I smile. From a wedding stationary design for a friend of a friend, to being recommended by friends to more friends, to corporate work for Foschini's, to more wedding stationary and corporate identity work etc. My little dream studio (of one!) is slowly gathering momentum and a constant client flow and has me believing in the power of positive thinking and smiling an even bigger smile each day. Here I am...just me...in my little world, hopefully helping to impact the world of my clients and beyond. And now I am sharing my little world with you.

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me