A few more design pieces

I’ve already posted the illustration I did for Reneilwe Malatji’s ‘Love Interrupted’, which is taking the book world by storm! Here is the final book cover as designed by Modjaji Books.

Following are two other pieces I recently did for Modjaji and Hands-On Books, for the wonderful and pioneering, Colleen Higgs.

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Ms Tash

National Arts Festival Booking Kit Cover

Love Interrupted

I was asked to do a cover illustration for Reneilwe Malatji’s ‘Love Interrupted’, published by Hands-On Books. This is the result.

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That's not pixelation, it's design.

Being on the communications team for the Cape Town MyCiTi project has made me all too aware of the power of good design - whether it be in an airport, on a bus or in that pamphlet you just chucked in the bin. 

Signage is all about communication, this we know. But it's easy to forget that said signage should convey a sense of the project, as well as the identity of the city or country in which its being implemented.

The above photo is of signage designed by Ruedi Baur

for Vienna Airport. That's not pixelation on your screen,  it's design - check out the full article on this ingenius designer's experimental signage in the New York Times here.

Ms Tash

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Good on you

If you're a little helpless in the style department, can't tell your platforms from your wedges, or just feel like looking at a pretty, useful fashion blog, check out Good On You.

With uber-cool photos and on-the-now fashion tips, glamazon Claire Martin will make sure you're always looking your very best.

Ms Tash

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Ms Tash is BACK!

So it's been an absolute age since I last blogged and for this I apologise.

Ms Tash will soon be back with loads of posts, news and titbits on design, fashion, life and the literary world.

Until then, check out these fantastic reviews of Kelwyn Sole's latest volume of poetry, Absent Tongues.

Mail and Guardian

Slipnet

To see the cover I designed for the anthology, click here.

Love,

Ms Tash

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En pointe

6pm. Gardens. Ballet.

Those three words herald in a momentous change in my life. For the past five years I have neither attended nor watched a Ballet class, despite having danced for fifteen years of my life.

And today it all changes.

No more stuffing leotards and tights into the very back of my cupboard. Today is the dawn of a new era. Today, I will dance again.

Dramatic intro aside, I am pretty excited to get dancing again. Besides the instant physical transformation I have imagined will take place (emphasis on imagined), I can’t wait to express myself through such a beautiful art form.

Inspired by all things ballet-related, below Henry Leutwyler's exquisite photos of the New York City Ballet, which I pilfered from Kingdom of Style.