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.
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
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
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
Visual exploration, own work. Creating magical surrealistic characters with a combination of digital- and hand-drawn sketch, and scanned in mushrooms. illustrator characterdesign
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
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.
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
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
Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration. illustrator pdf
Style variations and experimentation - sketch, acrylic, oil, digital. illustrator
Portraiture sketches in charcoal and pencil, scanned in digitally. Own work, visual exploration.
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
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