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

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

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.

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It’s the day of the launch and everything’s running unnervingly smoothly. Shopfitting’s done, artists confirmed and the drinks are on ice.

Even the list of collaborators for this evening reads like a who’s who in SA’s new school of cool:

DJs Soosh, C-live, Georgeous The Beatbox and the gorgeous DJ Zinhle as well as ultra-hip Sweat X will making the music and setting the mood. Richard de Jager, Lisa Jaffe, Petro Steyn, Sibu, Katherine Mortner and Luke Radloff are our fabulous fashion people. And the art and photos of Stefan Naudé, Marcii Goose, Coenie Sutton, Joh Del, Love and Hate Studio, Kronk, Liam Lynch, Warren van Rensburg, Chris Saunders, Ross Garrett, Sabelo Mhlangeni and Xandre Kriel are guaranteed to stir up thoughts a and feelings even the most passive observer.

Yip. There’s not a glitch in sight and I don’t like it. A bit of power-shedding would be very comforting right about now; better the devil you know and all that. But as we’ve got a generator on standby even that won’t be too much of a mission.

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