ShootCake: Tasteful Imaging for Home Industries
I admire home-based entrepreneurs who are prepared to take on the risks to carve a space for themselves in the market and succeed through vision, bravado and hard work. Often working solo and without a large amount of start-up capital, home industries usually find professional marketing services to be well out of reach. So while they may produce or sell a superb product, home industry is short-changed when it comes to perception as they rely either on grainy photographs taken with cellphones...
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Short-listed: Burnet Media Young Visual Designer Cover Competition 2011
I submitted this book cover design concept for the Burnet Media Young Visual Designer Cover Competition 2011 and it made the short-list. Christoff van Wyk’s design went on to claim top spot. Click here to view his winning cover and the other short-listed designs. I won last year’s round with my cover concept for Zuma’s Bastard by Azad...
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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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