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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Business Cards: Shubnum Khan, Writer
Shubnum is about to launch her debut novel Onion Tears (Penguin, 2011). Analogous to the readying of a manuscript for publication, the design for her business cards underwent a few revisions and adjustments to the plot. To add a bit of personality and relevance to the card, I asked Shubnum to provide a sketch she’d done of herself writing. Shubnum’s book is available to purchase online at Exclusive...
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Business Cards: Glitter Dust
Glitterdust is an online retailer who specialises in scarves and accessories for the “fashionable and modest-conscious Hijabi”. Some of the conceptual designs: Double-sided Single-sided The final...
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Seasoned
For MJ and Kareema’s wedding gift, I laid out a selection of tried-and-tested recipes from Nafisa and myself. The layout was exported as a PDF and burnt on to a CD with a modified version of the recipe book’s cover used as the artwork for the CD’s jewel case inserts. Click on thumbnails for page...
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Mummy’s Farewell Tea
I hosted a small tea party as a send-off for my mum who’s relocating to Cape Town. My theme for the afternoon, “So Long Jo’burg, Hello Cape Town”, was framed by silhouettes of the Johannesburg skyline and Table Mountain and pulled together with shades of pink and brown in the design of the bunting, paper tents, labels and cupcake toppers. Paper bunting strung together with bakers’ twine Labels and cup-cake toppers Favour bags filled with...
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Gender and Human Rights in HIV and AIDS Education
frayintermedia commissioned me to design and typeset a training toolkit for the Southern African Aids Trust’s Gender and Human Rights in HIV and AIDS Education Curriculum. The toolkit consisted of three sections linked to a manual and an additional resource for church-based capacity workshops. This had to be designed in a way that made it easy to link the different activities and handouts to the relevant modules. We decided on using colour cues for quick referencing between the...
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