Hello, I'm an illustrator and graphic designer based in South Africa. I am very passionate about nature-led ideas, future-thinking design, as well as all kinds of illustration. If you need a graphic designer: I can help you with anything from logo and brand development, package design, to UX design and prototyping for mobile and web applications. Need an Illustrator? I personally love to explore with a combination of hand-drawn and digital elements , whimsical magical surrealism which is wonderfully suitable for narrative or children's book illustrations, or even book covers. Nonetheless, I can do all kinds of illustration on request, from hand-drawn realistic/ scientific sketching, illustration and painting, to anything more fun and abstract. Whatever the request, I love what I do and put a lot of intention and attention to detail into my work. Contact me for discussion and any requests, I’d love to work with you. **Employment and project experience** **Branding and packaging Designer** Schuman Cheese, US. _Nov 2022 - Aug 2023_ **Freelance Illustrator** _January 2022 - Current_…Hello, I'm an illustrator and graphic designer based in South Africa. I am very passionate about nature-led ideas, future-thinking design, as well as all kinds of illustration. If you need a graphic designer: I can help you with anything from logo and brand development, package design, to UX design and prototyping for mobile and web applications. Need an Illustrator? I personally love to explore with a combination of hand-drawn and digital elements , whimsical magical surrealism which is wonderfully suitable for narrative or children's book illustrations, or even book covers. Nonetheless, I can do all kinds of illustration on request, from hand-drawn realistic/ scientific sketching, illustration and painting, to anything more fun and abstract. Whatever the request, I love what I do and put a lot of intention and attention to detail into my work. Contact me for discussion and any requests, I’d love to work with you. **Employment and project experience** **Branding and packaging Designer** Schuman Cheese, US. _Nov 2022 - Aug 2023_ **Freelance Illustrator** _January 2022 - Current_WWW…
Hello, I'm an illustrator and graphic designer based in South Africa. I am very passionate about nature-led ideas, future-thinking design, as well as all kinds of illustration. If you need a graphic designer: I can help you with anything from logo and brand development, package design, to UX design and prototyping for mobile and web applications. Need an Illustrator? I personally love to explore with a combination of hand-drawn and digital elements , whimsical magical surrealism which is wonderfully suitable for narrative or children's book illustrations, or even book covers. Nonetheless, I can do all kinds of illustration on request, from hand-drawn realistic/ scientific sketching, illustration and painting, to anything more fun and abstract. Whatever the request, I love what I do and put a lot of intention and attention to detail into my work. Contact me for discussion and any requests, I’d love to work with you. **Employment and project experience** **Branding and packaging Designer** Schuman Cheese, US. _Nov 2022 - Aug 2023_ **Freelance Illustrator** _January 2022 - Current_…Hello, I'm an illustrator and graphic designer based in South Africa. I am very passionate about nature-led ideas, future-thinking design, as well as all kinds of illustration. If you need a graphic designer: I can help you with anything from logo and brand development, package design, to UX design and prototyping for mobile and web applications. Need an Illustrator? I personally love to explore with a combination of hand-drawn and digital elements , whimsical magical surrealism which is wonderfully suitable for narrative or children's book illustrations, or even book covers. Nonetheless, I can do all kinds of illustration on request, from hand-drawn realistic/ scientific sketching, illustration and painting, to anything more fun and abstract. Whatever the request, I love what I do and put a lot of intention and attention to detail into my work. Contact me for discussion and any requests, I’d love to work with you. **Employment and project experience** **Branding and packaging Designer** Schuman Cheese, US. _Nov 2022 - Aug 2023_ **Freelance Illustrator** _January 2022 - Current_WWWW…
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Hello, I’m an illustrator and graphic designer based in South Africa.
I am very passionate about nature-led ideas, future-thinking design, as well as all kinds of illustration.
If you need a graphic designer: I can help you with anything from logo and brand development, package design, to UX design and prototyping for mobile and web applications.
Need an Illustrator? I personally love to explore with a combination of hand-drawn and digital elements , whimsical magical surrealism which is wonderfully suitable for narrative or children’s book illustrations, or even book covers. Nonetheless, I can do all kinds of illustration on request, from hand-drawn realistic/ scientific sketching, illustration and painting, to anything more fun and abstract. Whatever the request, I love what I do and put a lot of intention and attention to detail into my work. Contact me for discussion and any requests, I’d love to work with you.
Employment and project experience
Branding and packaging Designer Schuman Cheese, US.
Nov 2022 - Aug 2023
Freelance Illustrator
January 2022 - Current
Skills
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Experience Level
Adobe Illustrator
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Expert
Illustration
Expert
Photo
Expert
Adobe XD
Expert
Book Illustration
Expert
Childrens Book Illustration
Expert
Procreate
Expert
Adobe Lightroom
Expert
Logo
Expert
Branding
Expert
Adobe After Effects
Intermediate
Adobe InDesign
Intermediate
Motion Graphic
Beginner
Language
English
Fluent
Afrikaans
Fluent
Xhosa
Beginner
French
Beginner
Education
Bachelor in Art, Visual Communication Design at University of Stellenbosch
February 12, 2018 - December 6, 2021Placed top 3 in class.
Qualifications
Industry Experience
Consumer Goods
Zenzeleni Rural Primary School Mural Design
Community Development: An illustrated mural design for a solar-powered computer centrum built in Tshani Village, Wild Coast, South Africa. The concept is based on a celebration of the elements that make the children proud of their home, the Wild Coast.
Nov 2022.
illustrator muralist communitydevelopment…Community Development: An illustrated mural design for a solar-powered computer centrum built in Tshani Village, Wild Coast, South Africa. The concept is based on a celebration of the elements that make the children proud of their home, the Wild Coast.
Nov 2022.
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'A Day in the Life'
A personal project exploring childhood in South Africa. Illustrated with a combination of hand-drawn elements in sketch and ink, as well as digital illustration.
childrenbookillustration illustrator animator pdf…A personal project exploring childhood in South Africa. Illustrated with a combination of hand-drawn elements in sketch and ink, as well as digital illustration.
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Little Forest Characters
Visual exploration, own work. Creating magical surrealistic characters with a combination of digital- and hand-drawn sketch, and scanned in mushrooms.
illustrator characterdesign…Visual exploration, own work. Creating magical surrealistic characters with a combination of digital- and hand-drawn sketch, and scanned in mushrooms.
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When The World Stopped (Children's Book Illustration)
This is a book I've Illustrated as a University project during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The intention of the project was to capture and point out some of the simple and beautiful things that also came to the surface in a time of collective struggle.
The style is very much an illustrative exploration and experimentation of different mediums that I wanted to integrate as a whole to communicate the feel of the book. This includes a blend of acrylic and watercolor paintings, ink drawings, digital scans of real plants, as well as cutouts of my own photography (as seen in the mountains and some of the textures). The illustrations are paired with a simple text written by myself as well.
illustrator bookillustrator childrensbookillustrator graphicdesigner pdf…This is a book I've Illustrated as a University project during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020. The intention of the project was to capture and point out some of the simple and beautiful things that also came to the surface in a time of collective struggle.
The style is very much an illustrative exploration and experimentation of different mediums that I wanted to integrate as a whole to communicate the feel of the book. This includes a blend of acrylic and watercolor paintings, ink drawings, digital scans of real plants, as well as cutouts of my own photography (as seen in the mountains and some of the textures). The illustrations are paired with a simple text written by myself as well.
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Zenzeleni Rural Primary School Mural Design
An illustrated mural design for a solar-powered computer centrum built in Tshani Village, Wild Coast, South Africa. The concept is based on a celebration of the elements that make the children proud of their home, the Wild Coast.
Nov 2022.…An illustrated mural design for a solar-powered computer centrum built in Tshani Village, Wild Coast, South Africa. The concept is based on a celebration of the elements that make the children proud of their home, the Wild Coast.
Nov 2022.WW…
Photography Portfolio
A personal collection of analogue and digital photography. My work aims to be a celebration of cultural rawness and natural landscapes across the world, with particular focus on my home roots: South Africa.
I enjoy capturing intimate authenticity of human emotion and to explore the connection between people and space. In particular, our relationship to the earth.
photographer analoguehotographer travelphotographer digitalphotographer…A personal collection of analogue and digital photography. My work aims to be a celebration of cultural rawness and natural landscapes across the world, with particular focus on my home roots: South Africa.
I enjoy capturing intimate authenticity of human emotion and to explore the connection between people and space. In particular, our relationship to the earth.
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Poster Design for Themed Camp at Afrikaburn
This poster was designed and illustrated for a themed tented camp at Afrikaburn 2023. The poster depicts a traditional "Dakini", the Tibetan representation of the Divine Feminine, dancing with two lions. The illustration is a combination of digitally- as well as hand drawn elements, alongside a montage of real flower cutouts.
(Download file for more versions, full poster and application of this design).
illustrator graphicdesigner posterdesign…This poster was designed and illustrated for a themed tented camp at Afrikaburn 2023. The poster depicts a traditional "Dakini", the Tibetan representation of the Divine Feminine, dancing with two lions. The illustration is a combination of digitally- as well as hand drawn elements, alongside a montage of real flower cutouts.
(Download file for more versions, full poster and application of this design).
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Multi-dimensional Portraits
Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration.
illustrator pdf…Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration.
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Illustration/ sketch explore book
Style variations and experimentation - sketch, acrylic, oil, digital. illustrator…Style variations and experimentation - sketch, acrylic, oil, digital. illustratorWW…
Multi-dimensional Portraits
Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration.…Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration.WWWWWWWW…
Infographic Poster: Animism as Normative Consciousness
AR Infographic Poster Design
This is an extension of the "Magik" brand, which formed part of my final year thesis work in university. My thesis is a deep dive into the role of the artist and designer in contemporary society and what it means to design for a future, more-than-human world that benefits all life. My work looks deeply into ancient practices, philosophies and indigenous knowledge systems. My style approach has been very experimental and explorative: challenging conventional materials and encouraging the viewer to rethink the way we see matter, as well as the world around us. A lot of fun went into this!
This infographic poster visually represents an historical timeline of human history in the context of animism. I've explored working with physical natural matter such as photographing rocks, as well as interesting visuals created by photographing watercolor paint drops that dissolve into water. This experimental process unfolded into these beautifully intricate "water webs" as seen on the poster.
A prominent theme of this entire project has been to "rethink matter", and to shift the designer's role from being the maker - to only become the facilitator for matter to make its own marks.
The final poster outcome was developed into an interactive augmented reality poster, which revealed another layer of information onto the infographic.
graphicdesigner posterdesign infographicdesign…AR Infographic Poster Design
This is an extension of the "Magik" brand, which formed part of my final year thesis work in university. My thesis is a deep dive into the role of the artist and designer in contemporary society and what it means to design for a future, more-than-human world that benefits all life. My work looks deeply into ancient practices, philosophies and indigenous knowledge systems. My style approach has been very experimental and explorative: challenging conventional materials and encouraging the viewer to rethink the way we see matter, as well as the world around us. A lot of fun went into this!
This infographic poster visually represents an historical timeline of human history in the context of animism. I've explored working with physical natural matter such as photographing rocks, as well as interesting visuals created by photographing watercolor paint drops that dissolve into water. This experimental process unfolded into these beautifully intricate "water webs" as seen on the poster.
A prominent theme of this entire project has been to "rethink matter", and to shift the designer's role from being the maker - to only become the facilitator for matter to make its own marks.
The final poster outcome was developed into an interactive augmented reality poster, which revealed another layer of information onto the infographic.
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Magik Animated Logo GIF
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