Integrated annual report for the year ended 30 June 2023 The City of Cape Town’s integrated annual report provides an overview of the municipality’s delivery on its strategic plans and initiatives outlined in the Integrated Development Plan (2022–2027). The City is emboldened by their vision for Cape Town to be a city of hope for all, and they are making progress across a range...
For Unseen Veins, a poignant collection of poetry by Natasha Devalia, I was tasked with creating a cover that encapsulates the intricate and deeply personal themes of identity, heritage, and belonging explored in the collection. The design needed to visually represent the complexity of navigating cultural labels and the freedom to choose one’s own path. The cover features a delicate balance of subtle textures...
Design studio: Otto CreativeClient: SADC This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of SADC and GWP and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Nexus Dialogue Project “Fostering Water, Energy and Food (WEF) Security Nexus Dialogue and...
The concept of ‘COVID-19 & Beyond: Through A Youth Lens’ was born out of the recognition that the impact of the pandemic years on children and young people has largely not been told through the eyes of youth themselves. The project engaged young people to help them express their stories through words and visual imagery about how they navigated the COVID-19 years at a...
Jonathan Ball Publisher requested that strong type carried this design. The type had to be punchy – while not looking too much like an echo of the author’s previous book published by Wits Press (South Africa’s Suspended Revolution), which had a gritty, blocky type and was very yellow. The challenge here was for the cover not too look too much like an academic book, or a...
Client: Penguin Books South Africa Agency: Flame Design After an unexpected request from his father, Henry Knott returns to the Karoo farm on which he spent a fractured childhood. Painful memories force him to revisit a tragedy in which he was fatefully implicated. Henry has to come to terms with how this event has shaped his adult life, his marriage and the conflicted emotions...
Client: Lapa Publishers Agency: Flame Design Snydokter is in die eerste plek ‘n spanningsroman deur een van ons land se bekendste skrywers, Leon van Nierop. Maar dis meer as ‘n roman. Dis ook die resultaat van ‘n sosialmediaveldtog waarmee LAPA uitgewers se reklameagentskap twee Pendorings gewen het. Die roman het onstaan as deel van Die hoofkarakter-veldtog in 2012. Die publiek is uitgenooi om raaisels...