LABOUR OF LOVE … AND HATE

Is anybody in South Africa working today? Except me, that is? My guess is some of our artists are happily toiling away at their labour of love. People like Kronk and the members of the love and hate studio, for example.

Kronk

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25 year old Kris Hewitt a.k.a “KRONK” describes himself thus on his MySpace page: “I do some graphic art & illustrations and I think that trout are awesome and clowns scare me but I find their masked personas oddly appealing. […] I like weak instant coffee and foamy latte and one day I want to be a real boy.” His has recently earned global recognition as a world class “toy artist” through collaboration with the international toy company, KIDROBOT.

Learn more at his myspace page.

Love and hate studio

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love and hate studio is a fashion label and illustration company founded in 2004 by the young and enterprising and ultra-creative trio consisting of black koki , 351073 and elbowgrease. They have organized and participated in numerous art exhibitions in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, and Pretoria. They have also published a limited edition art book with local artists, their work has been featured in a host of South African magazines and they’ve been stocking various lifestyle fashion and street stores with their gorgeous and highly original handmade functional art pieces, jewelry and clothing.

For more information take a look at their space on myspace.

 



Posted on April 30th, 2008 in ART, DESIGN, FASHION by Rosalie

ALPHABETICALLY DISORGANISED

As all of the creative talents who contributed to the opening exhibition of The Gallery on 4th did such a spectacular job, we thought it would be a good idea to take a quick look at each of them individually over the next couple of weeks. But who to start with? In the end the old standby of alphabetical order sounded like the simplest solution. Sort of. But as some artists had numbers for names and some go by first names only and some fell under group names, it all got a bit blurry. So here we go with the graphic artists, in somewhat alphabetical order, according to first names.


Coenie Sutton

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His hometown is Aroab in Namibia. He likes animals, malva pudding, green and brown, old desolated towns, trees and old people. He is a nice young guy with a list of achievements surprisingly long for one who only graduated last year. These include the Award for Excellence in Information Design in 2006 (UP), co-winning group project for Cell C in 2007, overall best student in Information Design, 2007 and graduating with distinction in Information Design, Class of 2007. Impressive. And did I mention he’s a really nice guy?Go to his Flickr page for more, or see the work he did for us in the store or our online gallery.

Joh Del, Illustrator and graphic designer

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Joh Del is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Johannesburg. He does “small jobs, and big jobs, as long as it allows me to stay true to my style and I get rewarded as a professional.” He has contributed to many South African magazines including: One Small Seed, Loslyf and Insig and has also worked as a fulltime designer for Stage music magazine and SL magazine.
Find out more at http://www.johdel.blogspot.com or see the work he did for the launch in our gallery.



Posted on April 29th, 2008 in ART, DESIGN by Rosalie