Turnkey: niqi.co.za
www.niqi.co.za is the online presence of niQi Living Luxe; a lifestyle brand encompassing the design sensibilities of Naqiyah Mayat. Naqiyah is a freelance graphic designer and event stylist who’s launched a range of luxury tea towels as well as a line of ready-to-wear Moroccan-inspired clothing. Her strong photography, culinary and paper crafting skills make for a constant visual delight. Along with content generation and management, ColourNoun maintains all aspects of the niQi Living...
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Free printable Eid cards
Preparing for Eid and maximising one’s ibaadah in these final moments of Ramadaan can be quite the juggle. If Eid gifting is on your lengthy last-minute-to-do list, here’s one less thing to occupy your head-space. I’ve put together these Eid Mubarak cards for you to download and print. Assemble the cards by printing each one on an A4 sheet of paper. Follow the grey line and trim off the white border. Orientate your paper so that it’s print side up and in...
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Zainab’s baby shower
My very dear friend Aasia organised a baby shower for her cousin Zainab. Incorporating a digital paper design from Nicole Seitler’s Sugarplum Paperie, I designed an invitation and a few printables for the party’s decor. The family wanted to keep the sex of the baby a surprise and the minty candy colours worked well as a neutral scheme . Here are a few pictures Aasia took at the baby...
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Desktop wallpaper download: Sunset over Tangier
While in Tangier, we stayed at Dar23; a guest-house with a rooftop terrace that overlooked the port. I will always associate a part of our time there with the scent of cooking fish and laundry baking off in the sun. This design is my abstraction of the view from the guest-house’s terrace. Click on the image to open the wallpaper to its full resolution of 1024×768, then right-click on the image to...
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Revised Identity: Soul&Paper
Soul&Paper is my paper-crafting sideline. I’ve started to pay more attention to it and realised an identity refurb was in order. This included revising the logo, printing business cards and planning for packaging. The revised logo: Label designs for packaging: Business cards: The cards arrived standard issue from the printers. To customise them, I used corner-rounder and craft punches on each card, positioning the teardrop punch shapes so that when I use the card on a package,...
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