Egg design is a South African Company founded in 1996 by Greg and Roché Dry.
“We fuel our creativity by working across the genres of design, in our environments we apply a pragmatic approach while still striving for excitement and innovation as well as strict attention to detail, while in our furniture we take a more exploratory and provocative approach to hopefully excite or agitate”
Egg has won the local arm of the Elle Décor designer of the year award in 2004 and 2005, as well as best seating in 2008.
Egg’s works have appeared in diverse local and international publications; Visi, House & Leisure, Elle Décor Metropolis, Surface, Interni, Ottagono, I.D, AD&D design issue, Icon, World of Interiors to name a few.
Egg’s signature “yellow desert rose locker” was auctioned at Christies prestigious 20th century design auction, New York in 2007.
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Richard Hart of Disturbance held his debut solo exhibition Whatiftheworld in Cape Town recently.
Kind Pockets is an exploration of the concept of the marsupial girl, an
imaginary archetype. Aesthetically the work references the visual vernacular of
popular youth culture, bringing to mind the work of artists such as Rita
Ackermann, Aya Takano and Yoshitomo
Nara. At surface level the work seems to deal with the ephemeral – themes
such as beauty, fashion, innocence and adolescence. But on closer inspection the
girls and their animal companions populate a disquieting world where the fragile
present threatens to shatter into something more sinister.
Read and see more at Whatiftheworld.
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Our students recently completed their Lomography assignment. Go to our flickr site to see the pics. Fabulous as always! [Under Lomo tag]
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Seems as though we slipped up on the
Makhulu Polane 2008 announcement re their annual t-shirt winners.
Much fun was had by all it seems, with Gerrit Breitenbach bagging himself R20 000 in cash as well as Makhulu fame for his interpretation of Funny Galore.
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Trevor Paul is a designer and illustrator that lives and works in Durban under the name Firebrand...
Marie Claire: Astrology Illustrations
Loeries Awards: finalist in Environmental Design and eventual runner up
Q: Where did you study?
A:I studied the graphic graphic design course at the Art Foundation in Johannesburg, which I completed in 1993.
Q: Why did you decide to settle in Durban when the world is your oyster?
A: I grew up in Johannesburg, but have no connection to that place at all. Durban is home. Maybe it's the ocean and the warm weather. Durban's full of interesting, creative people and isn't as image or money conscious. It's down to earth, sea-level.
Q: Do you believe in design process? And if so, what is your modes operandum?
A: Good design and illustration have to have process. which gets easier with experience (directly linked to how relaxed and confident you are in your own creativity). One shouldn't get too hung up on creative blocks early on.
A strong idea is more important than execution - a polished poop is still a poop. Sometimes the conceptualizing and looking for inspiration and reference, takes longer than the final artwork. I try draw inspiration from unusual sources. That will result in the project at hand being unusual and memorable.
Q: Tell us about the Design Indaba magazine feature.
A: I lived in London,and traveled, and over the course of two years produced a journal. Mostly in felt pen, pen and ink, ballpoint pen and collage.
A lot of the content could be criticised for being narcissistic, cynical, contrived or just plain infantile, but it was fun. It was therapy. That’s all that mattered at that stage of my life. It was a growth process. It was a trusty companion during some lonely patches while travelling around.
(Trevor’s pages were first exhibited at Beanbag Bohemia. At the gallery opening (a sell-out!) the work was spotted by fashion designers The Holmes Brothers. An exhibit at their store launched their winter range, and sold there for a few months. Tales from the Shallow End featured in Design Indaba 4th Quarter 2006. here )
Design Indaba: Tales from the Shallow End.
His work for Iron Fist won him a coveted spot in the '200 Best Illustrators Worldwide' Archive
Q: Tell us about Black Burru!
A: Black Burru is a close descendent of the Black Rat and is the true culprit behind the 14th century pandemic, the Bubonic Plague, or Black Death. I created plush versions of the Burru for the Bigwood 1 exhibition last year. Go to Mojizu vote for Black Burru!)
Q: How did you create the fella?
A: I sketched the character first, and scanned and traced him in Freehand. Then dropped the character into Photoshop and lifted the eyes and some textures from the bird.
Q:If you had any advice to give students what would it be?
A:If I have an illustration to do, I won't look at at other illustrators' work. Inspiration is everywhere, why be that loser who steals? So many younger artists are copying other artists' work think they won't get noticed. Just because you don't know that artists work doesn't mean nobody else does.
Like someone did the Sunday Magazine cover this weekend and they ripped off Miss Van completely. That artist will battle to find credibility ever again, because even if they do something original, or develop their own style they'll never shake that hack reputation. People will always wonder where they stole it.
That's not to say you can't learn from other people's work. Students should look at trends, or styles and do their own adaptations of those things and then move on. Then it becomes a learning process.
It's when you adapt it in your own way that it becomes original. And it should be fun. Nobody can do good work if they lack confidence in themselves or are taking it all too seriously. You have to really believe you're good at what you do, it'll reflect in your design and illustration and eventually other people will start believing you too.
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The latest issue of Visi is now on the shelves, and features the hottest home-grown talent. As always their section double page spreads are a delight: this time in contour line drawings and flat colour.
Visit their site and read their new blog.
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