Weekend Learning's

Coco, on top of the world.

Gosh! But it is cold outside! Autumn is being pretty mean. Or perhaps we skipped Autumn and jumped straight into bed with Winter? I believe this is true! So this is what cold Coco learned this weekend;

• After a whole week of no parents at home, I welcome them back with open arms. Actually I always welcome them back even after one day, I love my family and hate us being apart for too long.
• On that note the one okay thing about a house of no parents is I get to have little sister all to myself… and I kind of love that, like a lot.
• A real woman can do it by herself, but a real man wont let her.
• What is one of the nicest things about living in Johannesburg? No matter what the season you can always sit on the grass in the middle of the day in the sun and enjoy the weather, even in Autumn and Winter… unless it is hailing, then you should go inside.
• “Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.” – Irma Kurtz
• I really love going to events where I am a little younger than the rest of the crowd (this is quite rare I will have you know!) It is also nice when I don’t know that many people. It makes for an interesting affair.
• “Trendy is the last stage before tacky.” – Karl Lagerfeld.
• Sitting in James and Ethel Grey park on a Sunday – it is lovely. You know how Coco loooooves dogs? (If you don’t then this must be your first post, hello, welcome!) well the park is full to the brim with funny wet nosey four legged , sniffing, curious, cute and ridiculous pups! It is bliss! You should come… sit in the sun.
• “Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.” – Epicurus. This I can believe. As I grow I find a lot more joy in moments and humans than I do in things.
• I took a little visit to my dear old Gran on Sunday too. My Granny is one of the rare and glowing people in my life. I hate that nature is taking her body. But her mind, she is a million times smarter than me, I only hope one day I will grow up to be as wise as her.
• All relationships have one law, never make the one you love feel alone, especially when you’re there.
• I did not sleep at all on Sunday night. No matter how much design work I put out into the universe, each beautiful piece, to me, is like a child. Letting them out into the world is not only frightening, but with the additional brutal front of Social Media one has to face… it is mortifying. Having to monitor peoples responses, not only makes you and your design child feel naked, raw and awkward, but truly at the end of Monday I was so overwhelmed I was in tears, sick to my stomach and felt like I’d been mentally stoned all day. Even though there was a lot more positive than negative, the one-year build up and tension threw me. Don’t ever say being a Designer is easy! Anyway, so my logo is up on the walls for all to see, and I think I am pretty proud of me and the JSE.
• Humble enough to know I’m not better than anybody and wise enough to know that I’m different from the rest.
• So my lovely readers… I am considering making a smoothie section on my blog, I’d like to know your views, would you be interested in this or not? Let me know {here}.

Keep warm my tiny stalagmites!

Xoxo

PS. You grabbed me in your sleep one morning and whispered ‘mine’ in my ear. And I kept that memory on my windowsill, and feed it music, water and light.

I love her when she drinks her morning coffee,
and drinks me. And I love her more when she assures me
that she’ll take over the world, and take over me. - Nizar-qabbani

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Weekend Learning's

Fight for love, always and forever.

Weekend Learning's after a… 57 day hiatus, can ya dig it? Yes we can! No we can't I know. Thank you all of those for the pep talks, messages and the er…  "I love you but I'm going to start to hate you" mail (was it really necessary? I guess you got my attention). Especially I must add a little two cents to Atz, girl, if I see you looking at your watch once more to check the delay time on my last post… ill take you to the bar! Thank you.

I think it might have something to do with the fact that my little Cocobutton needs a little makeover, a nip tuck shall we say. I opened her up today (after all this time) and saw the lighter shade of what I used to be. Yes Coco we need some highlights! Watch this space… This is what I've learned;

• Going abroad makes you realize how truly backwards South Africa has become. Yes I know I am sorry to start off with a negative trust me, this will be the last but really, you have no idea how much bullshit we put up with till you go over there and put up with none. Its despicable. Can we all pull together to try make this a better place? And for gods sake VOTE people!!!
• I crave cake when I'm sick. I've come to the realization that this is in fact the "I feel sorry for myself" hunger. No wonder I'm so fit when I'm happy. None of that now happy clown!
• On that note, I am sorry for what I said when I was hungry… hungry = grumpy = no thinking before speaking.
• "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." - Vincent Van Gogh.
• I think I might have a new favourite blog in my future! My fellow juicer / veggie / townie / indie baby-shoes has FINALLY joined the blogging cult! You should add In My Green Boots to your list of blogs to follow. If you love me you'll love her, welcome Nats to the addiction.
• Smile To Go is probably NYC's best kept secret. A tiny place with the best granola (yes possibly as good as mine OKAY) delicious coffee and scrumptious lunch. The sheer gorgeousness of the interior and the ridiculousness of the girl riding on the chicken… you can trust the food here! Which is more than I can say for most of the streets of New York… scary.
• Sarang.(n.) love; lit. "I wish to be with you until death."
• One cannot enjoy joy, when ones joy is at home.
• Weddings are best left small, with very close and intimate friends and family with the main breath being love (in) and joy (out). This I have learned from the last two weddings I have experienced since my last post (yea, Coco's been busy!). First was my aunt in New York and second, my dear and long time friends Ash and Guy Park. Thank you for letting me share your days with you!
• Smoothies! I am officially green smoothie obsessed. Two a day for everyday in may! Well it was a 30 day challenge and by this Sunday I would have happily done it. And I plan to stick to it forever. Adding it to my normal daily menu rather than replacing meals makes sure I am adding to my lifestyle not subtracting from my routine. And hells spinach are they delicious!
• No matter what the size or severity of someones operation, if they're a member of my family I am scared stiff! It is just one of those things where everything is out of your hands, fate is your biggest enemy and vulnerability becomes the biggest emotion I personally brew. Thank god its over.
• Getting another logo in another design book is like the cherry on my cake. I'm going in the right direction, that is all the proof I needed! Yes! Coco Winning!
• "They told me that to make her fall in love I had to make her laugh. But every time she laughs I'm the one who falls in love." - Tommaso Ferraris.

Have a leaf on the wind type of week my sweethearts, I shall try not to take so long from now on.

xoxo

PS. The streets are paved with gold my dears, and also glass… dance in army boots!

Light my way...

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Pantone Tarts

How divine, how divine!?

So what? I'm a designer and I love Pantone. If I didn't there would be something wrong with me. In fact, if a pastry chef didn't like puff pastry, wouldn't you think that it was weird? Yes. Well I like pastry too. In fact, before I was good at designing, I wanted to be a chef. Yip… a chef. And yes I can cook! Psh. Anyway, I'm getting off topic.

So when designer-meets-chef what do you get? Me probably, a confused blogger who has a pseudo name "Coco"… or a pantone tart? Yes! How divine. Shocked I didn't think of this myself actually.

French food designer Emilie De Griottes has come up with dessert tarts that resemble Pantone color swatches for French culinary magazine Fricote. Griottes uses everyday foods such as berries, bananas and candies for the respective colors, and marks each tart with the Pantone color represented. An imaginative take on the classic colour chips, perhaps Griottes can make tarts for each swatch? Mmm yum much! Ill eat those with my Pantone book thanks!

Xoxo

PS. Color me Coco!

Red berry beautiful!

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High Five

Found {here}

Today I need a high five. For those of you who do not know... The high five is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push or slap the flat of their hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner. The gesture is often preceded verbally by the phrase "Give me five" or "High five". Thank you Wiki. 
Shew wee it's been a long tough month. Good riddance January. 

So maybe you need a high five. I discovered this poster, isn’t it lovely? So I am giving you a high five, just for being you, my lovely reader. *now give me one... :D

Xoxo

PS. High fiving yourself is not quite the same thing... *clap

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Die Hard Designer

ai but its true.

Graphic Designer humor things I find online. They’re hysterical. I found this one {here}. Have a read, its completely true!

• You’ve almost rear-ended the car in front of you because you were analyzing a font on a billboard.
• You get pissed when a free Photoshop brush you download is less than 1000px in size.
• You’d rather study the paisley pattern on your boyfriend/girlfriend’s shirt than listen to what he/she has to say.
• You can use keyboard shortcuts at light speed, blindfolded, but you can’t type a paragraph of text without staring at the keyboard.
• You’ve had “Software Nightmares,” when you’ve been working way too much.
• You consider meals interruptions.
• You’ve learned your lesson and stopped using the word “final” in any file name when saving.
• You clean your keyboard more often than you wash your car.
• You’ve intentionally given up trying to explain your projects to non-designers. (and what you do... “I’m a Graphic Designer...” “So what does that mean” “Im going to get another drink”)
• You see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
• You’d rather organize your desktop than your sock drawer.
• When you heard that Adobe was aquiring Macromedia, you had a Design Orgasm.
• When you look at Album art all you see are grunge Photoshop Brushes. (Then you see the album art a couple minutes later)
• You’ve Photoshopped out a watermark for a comp or mock-up.
• You’ve actually paid for a font.
• You’ve totally slaughtered a great design concept because the client thinks he/she knows best. (everyone thinks they are a designer...)
• The amount of words you’ve written with on burned discs total more than the amount of words you’ve read in novels.
• You’ve had to explain to a client that a layered file wasn’t part of the deal.
• You’ve kept a ragged concert ticket just so you could scan it.
• You’ve nicknamed the OSX spinning wheel. (and not affectionately) spinning beachball o’ death (SO TURE!)
• You bookmark a resource more often than you have a fun night out on the town.
• You’ve intentionally overbid a project because you can sniff out a bad client from a mile away.
• You can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
• You have an amazingly huge font collection, and an amazingly short temper.
• If you had a cent for every mouse click, you would have been a trillionaire 3 years ago.
• You have removed the arrows and cleaned up the fonts on a forwarded mail before forwarding on.

Xoxo

PS. I cannot talk when I work too hard because my brain is thinking in pixels and not in words. Love. 

You can't just study it or decide one day you like it... you're born with it.

 

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Inkling Be Mine

Go {here} to see the website... cutesy logo too.

If you love me you will buy me this! Haha! If you draw a lot this is the most awesome invention. So many people I know want ipads or Kindles or mountain bikes or a new dress. I want this! Geek alert! 

A lot of designers actually cannot draw. What is the point of being a designer if you can’t do it on paper? When I started studying they wouldn’t let us do anything on machines. We first had to learn how to design on paper. Those of us who could draw excelled, the rest... Well lets just say many are doing layouts for furniture companies.

Wacom has introduced the Inkling. A digital sketch pen which makes my knees go weak! The website reads as follows;

“The Inkling digital sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on any sketchbook or standard piece of paper. Designed for rough concepting and creative brainstorming, Inkling is ideal for the front end of the creative process. Later, refine your work on your computer using an Intuos4 tablet or Cintiq interactive pen display.

In addition to capturing your sketch, stroke by stroke, Inkling allows you to create layers in digital files while you sketch on paper. Digital files are transferred to your computer using the Inkling Sketch Manager software, and later, exported to applications such as Adobe® Photoshop® and Illustrator®. Files can also be opened with the included Inkling Sketch Manager software to edit, delete, add layers or change file formats.”

The excuse to get myself a ‘just because’ gift just came to fruition.

Xoxo

PS. Every artist was first an amateur. (yes I did want to spell it like that)

Wow it so awesome... I am such a nerd.

This will be me... doodle queen.

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Black Barbara

Beauty in the black...

 Stumbling around the internet must be a design dorks favourite pastime. It really is a deep dark tunnel of creative pulling’s with inspiration and innovative stimulational stop offs along the way. Sometimes I get so deep into it hours fly by and I am spoilt for choice with all the tabs I have collected in my net window. Happily smug and proud of all the designer smut I’ve found I save the links and feel secretly satisfied with the days lurch into the interweb. However, the days I find gems I end up flying, researching the designer/ artist/ photographer I have discovered till I know their every artistic internet stepping stone. My problem is... black and white always sucks me in.

Today I discovered Danish designer Barbara i Gongini. Oh hell.

“In 2009, Danish designer Barbara i Gongini was one of the ten up-and-comers who presented a sustainable collection for Bright Green Fashion, a collaborative project of designers from Berlin and Copenhagen who are striving for greater environmental and social responsibility within fashion production. While Gongini’s environmental concerns have remained in place after the project — the fabrics are made with mostly organic fibers, the production is all fair-trade, and recycling, sustainability, and safer production methods are among her central concerns — there’s no washed-up hippie aesthetics here.” - Oakazine

Barbara’s designs are rough but sleek. To me her designs are Alice in Wonderland meet The Ring. They’re uncomfortable and unnatural yet beautiful. The darkness makes her designs seem slightly sinister yet the styling makes the look demure. Bold shapes and rich textures in a limited palette of greys. But the clothes do, somehow, look recycled — the collection’s pastiche of asymmetric structures and textures (waxy tulle and canvas, trash-bag irridescent blacks, knotted plastic knits, sculptural and tattered furs) recall a sort of post-apocalytpic re-piecing of found textiles that is both haphazard and deliberate.  And her peep-toe pumps and simple black brogues adorned with clusters of oversized rubber spikes are made to last, but covered with a paint that will deliberately crack and wear over time, adding to the eerie distressed and futuristic feel.

Her work, design, styling and photography is art, shadowy art. I love it.

Xoxo

PS. There is further to go in the darkness.

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Minimalist Muppets

This is too awesome not to share. I would like one for my Birthday, thanks. Always keep it simple! A true design doesn’t need bits of debris to make it special. A good designer uses simplicity in order to enhance their design. What are you trying to hide with all that gobble hmm?
This art is the perfect example of how we don’t actually need all that fur and felt to still have a beautiful design... Stunning. Oh you want one too? Check it out {here}. FYI a poster print of Eric Slager's Minimalist Muppets design comes on your choice of quality paper, canvas, and even framed!

Xoxo

PS. Simple gifts with big personality... Gimmeee.

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Weekend Learning's

Dance like no one is watching...

 This weekend I celebrated my birthday and went to a dear friends funeral. Talk about bitter sweet! This is what I learned.

• Female designers are a rare commodity. I’m proud to be one.
• I have amazing people in my life and I am blessed with an abundance of them.
• Tea in a flask might have saved my life when it was –1 on Saturday morning.
• I struggle at funerals. Nyiko, I miss you.
• People are shocked when they see a girl getting her head shaved, come on people its 2011.
• This birthday was the best birthday ever, I want to do it all again.
• Buddah Ta’s platters are delicious, but watch out for the garlic, woa.
• Some people just don’t know what respect and manners are, good bye.
• Sometimes talking till the sun comes up is the best part of the night.
• It is amazing what scent does, yum.
• I like making art with Smarties, colour and chocolate, a designers dream come true.
• I am happier in hot weather, I cant wait for this cold to go.
• The best times are always the unplanned moment which creep up on you and wash your memories in warm sunshine.

Xoxo

PS. “You’ve changed...” reply: “Good, I didn’t like the old me anyway.”

Not that I am unhappy, just an interesting way to look at it.

 

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50 reasons not to date a graphic designer

10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.

I am a graphic designer. No, I am a female graphic designer. We are a rare and extraordinary breed. Girls who like computing and drawing and know how to fix your dongle problem... (!) are not normal... well apparent I’m not. So... I found this... It is amazing. Here are 50 reasons why normal humans shouldn’t date Graphic Designers. Yes it is all true. Found here at abourbonforsilvia.

1. They are very weird people.
2. There are billions of them in the world, like colours on the screen of your computer.
3. They will analyse conversations in layers.
4. You will spend the day assembling furniture from IKEA.
5. They drink and eat all kinds of weird shit just because they like the packaging.
6. They hate each other.
7. You’ll come out the last out of the movies because you have to see the full list of credits.
8. They cant change a light bulb or without making a sketch.
9. They fuck up all the tables with their cutters.
10. They rather study the paisley pattern on your outfit than listen to what you have to say.
11. They will fill your house with magazines and whatever is out there that has drawings.
12. You never know if it is really an original or a copy.
13. They make collages with your photos.
14. They do not know how to add and subtract, they just understand letters.
15. They idolize people who nobody knows and speak of them as if they were his colleagues.
16. They take pictures almost daily and all are cut in weird shapes.
17. They ask your opinion about everything but  they do whatever they want.
18. Everything is left justified, right or center unless they arrive late.
19. They hate Comic Sans with the same passion they love Helvetica.
20. They use iPhone for everything, because everyone has one.
21. You can not decorate the house without consulting them.
22. They steal street signs.
23. Always carry their hands painted with something.
24. They buy dolls unfinished for them to paint.
25. Everything becomes something other than what it really is: cards as tickets, cards as …
26. When arguing, you will be nicknamed like the OSX spinning wheel (not affectionately)
27. Do not know how to dress without consulting the Pantone book.
28. They hate Excel.
29. They read comics.
30. They want to save the world only with a poster.
31. You will spend the day brainstorming.
32. On vacation they will take you to countries that you do not know exist and have no beach.
33. Museums are their second home.
34. They know more positions than the Kamasutra.
35. They can’t go to a restaurant without secretly critiquing the menu design.
36. They listen to music you have never heard of.
37. They can´t cook a normal dish, they always have to experiment with new ingredients.
38. They read rare books: stories of children, Semiotics …
39. When you are going to tell you something, everyone has read it in their facebook and twitter.
40. They have own iPods before you knew they existed.
41. The orgasm they remember is when they heard that Adobe was acquiring Macromedia.
42. They have their own shops just for them and there are the most expensive in the city.
43. They want to spend all the money in the Apple Store.
44. You will never understand their gifts.
45. They see ordinary objects and laugh.
46. You wake up in the middle of the night hearing them screaming “When is the deadline?”
47. They see CMYK and RGB like Neo sees the Matrix.
48. They dream of the day nobody will make a single change to their designs.
49. They rather pay for a font than for a special birthday gift.
50. They are always sleepy because they work 24/7.

Xoxo

PS. 51. If I own a blackberry does it make me even harder to understand...? ^~^

Thank goodness my dad was a graphic designer... or else this would be my favourite sticker.

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Save Japan

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I love these Save Japan posters.

A number of charities are accepting donations and help for the victims of Japan quake-tsunami disaster. However it's important to exercise due diligence before making a donation to any organisation.

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Following are the details.

Save The Children: Mobilising to provide immediate humanitarian relief in the shape of emergency health care and provision of non-food items and shelter. Call 1800 76 00 11 or visit www.savethechildren.org.au

Red Cross: Donors can contribute to the relief efforts by calling 800-733-27677 or visiting www.redcross.org.au. Each text message is a $10 donation to the Red Cross, which will be added to the donors’ next cellphone bill.

Mercy Corps: Mercy Corp has not sent its own team to Japan but it set up a donation fund for its partner, Peace Winds Japan, and its emergency assistance on the ground. To make a donation, call 888-747-7440 or visit the website here

Medical Teams International: Medical Teams International is also on alert and staying closely in touch with its nine partners along the coast and in Japan. To donate to Medical Teams International, visit www.medicalteams.org

World Vision Canada: World Vision is among the first organisations to begin relief work by distributing emergency supplies and sending highly-trained staff to assess and respond to the most urgent needs. To donate, visit www.worldvision.ca

Medecins Sans Frontiers: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international humanitarian aid organisation that provides emergency medical assistance to populations in danger in more than 60 countries. MSF workers are already on ground in Japan, assessing the situation. For more visit www.msf.org
DFAT: Assistance helpline: +61 2 6261 3305. DFAT hotline for Australians concerned about family and friends: 1300 555 135. Visit www.dfat.gov.au

Do your bit to help!

Xoxo

PS. Red Dot Design

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The Alphabet

Being a designer I have this weird connection with typefaces. Someone once told me that a typeface is an alphabet in a straightjacket... Perhaps a designer is an artist in a straightjacket.... Anyway! So I found this awesome little type video on n9ve I quote: 

“The Alphabet that's my new personal project, a spelling-video, where each character is the initial letter of a font name. direction + cel animation + motion + sfx music track: Si tu n'étais pas là – Fréhel” - n9ve

Is it not the most wonderful little video ever!? Me thinks so.

Xoxo

PS. French music... Prrrr!

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Dunny Diary

Hi there, I belong to Coco!

Once upon a time someone who knew me very well bought me a gift. A gift so perfect I never wanted another one because it was so faultless that no new gift could compare. Well those days are over and now I want another!!

Do you know Dunny? No I am not talking about the Australian slang... *Ew! I am talking about the Dunny vinyl designer toys created by Paul Budnitz and Tristan Eaton, and produced by Kidrobot.

Here is what Wiki says: “The toy is based on a rabbit figure with distinctive tubular ears. The origin of the name 'dunny' came from a combination of street slang and one of the early "Devil Bunny" prototype. Dunny comes in three sizes - 3", 8" and 20". The toy has three points of articulation; a 360 degree rotational head and two arms. Dunny sometimes comes with accessories that fit inside the sockets of the hand, such as a laser gun or an ice-cream cone. Sometimes the accessories can be as sophisticated as a gas mask, a crown or even a hoodie. An artist card or sticker is also included with the dunny.”

Pick me, NO, pick ME, no-no-no pick meeeee! Prrrr

They are a designers dream come true! Another great feature is they come in ‘blind boxes’ so you have no idea which one you are actually getting. That one up there... That is my Dunny. He’s a SERIES 5 CHASE 3" (2008) Devilrobot. And whenever I go into a meeting I rub his head like you would a Buddha's tummy for luck, or in this case Design Luck! Seems to work.

SO here are a couple of the ones I like, there are so many, go {here} to see the entire range! I love that dominatrix reindeer, hysterical! And that Ketchup one? Gosh they are all so divine. So creative.

Hope to get a new one this weekend... Will keep you updated!

Xoxo

PS. I am a designer... I’d rather have a Dunny box than a box of chocolates. *KaPOW!

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Fashion Friday

I'll wear um.. oh what the hell gimme all!

So Fashion Forward Friday is now Fashion Friday, down scaling a bit ;)

I’m just in love with this flipping cool ‘Style of Music’ poster on sale at Moxy. Loving the Prince attire! Or Artist formally known as... Something... No I cant keep up either. I have my wonderful Suzie’s wedding this weekend. Bridesmaid duty to the max. Cant wait to hustle!

Xoxo

PS. Keep it stylish people, we don’t want any Walmart folk emails about you floating around ;P

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Food, Wine, Design.

It was an arty affair... mustache anyone? 

Johannesburg isn’t known for its design events. Her Mother City, Cape Town, normally gets the creative injection more frequently. But this joyous weekend Hyde Park hosted the Food, Wine, Design show.

Food… Wine… and Design… Coco was in heaven! There were so many inspiring and creative stalls. I was smiling from stall to stall. I finally got to meet the designer who is Dear Rae, and made a purchase {here}. I also met the (amazing!) women behind Reel Gardening and thanked them for my prized veggies. I discovered Malée makes the most seductive room spray I have ever smelled… I almost cried when she said they were 100% out of stock! I saw cushion’s which said “I ♥ Jozi” and laughed at the pink, moustache panties! He he! I tasted loads of olives, Chorizo, and bought yummy smoked sausage and creamy Camembert that would make the food gods sing! I had the creamiest cinnamon ice-cream and shared a chocolate and roasted nut pancake with a friend I call Lamb. Delicious.

I cannot wait for next year!

xoxo

PS. I love the creative people in my country. South Africans are truly blessed!
 

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A Proud Daughter

And the award goes to... my Dad! *Jump for joy!

I am very proud to announce that my father, Jeremy Sampson won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the FM AdFocus awards on November 24. It was a reward for decades of leadership in South Africa’s branding and design sector, and marked the first time the award has been won by someone outside the advertising mainstream. Very proud, I cannot think of anyone else more deserving! If I do say so myself!

You can follow him on Twitter {here}. Check out the rest of the winners {here} and Interbrand Sampson was runner up in the Branding & Design Agency of the Year. Congratulations to all the winners!

Xoxo

PS. Branding and design for life!

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